M-iti Doctoral Symposium
Event
The Doctoral Symposium aims to gather together the PhD students from the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-iti) with the ultimate goal of presenting their research proposals, advances and preliminary results. This unique experience promoted by the students intends to boost the interaction between the researchers from different programs cohabiting in the institute, reinforcing the sense of belonging and improving the collaboration. Thus, attempting to create a real doctoral community in the beautiful pearl of the Atlantic.
Call for participation
Application deadline (Abstract 300 Words) - 15th of April Abstract Template
Poster deadline - 26th of May Poster Template
Doctoral Symposium - 2nd of June
Methodology and Venue
Students are encouraged to present their research proposals to the community in a 20 minutes presentation. An evaluation panel consisting of at least one senior professor and one post-doc will be providing valuable feedback aiming at improve the research work. Moreover, during the breaks the students will have the opportunity to present their posters to the assistants.
The M-iti Doctoral Symposium will take place in the "Museu de Imprensa da Madeira" located in the colorful fisherman's village of Câmara de Lobos.
Program (Friday, 2nd of June 2017)
09h30 - 9h45
Welcome Session
Symposium Organizers
09h45 - 10h15
Keynote Session I:
Turning into effective HCI researchers
Prof. Harold Thimbleby
10h15 - 11h30
Students Session
Ana Lúcia Faria
Vanessa Cesário
Roham Torabi
11h30 - 11h45
Coffee Break
11h45 - 12h35
Students Session
Mara Dionísio
Afonso Gonçalves
12h35 - 14h00
Lunch on your Own
14h00 - 14h50
Students Session
Duarte Gouveia
John Muñoz
14h50 - 15h20
Coffee Break & Poster Presentation
All the students
15h20 - 16h10
Students Session
Luis Ferreira
Dario Baptista
16h10 - 16h50
Keynote Session II
Saving lives through research in healthcare computer science and HCI
Prof. Harold Thimbleby
16h50 - 17h15
Questions & Final Remarks
Keynote
Harold Thimbleby
Is professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales. Harold wrote the book Press On, which won the American Publishers’ Association best book award in computer science.
Harold believes strongly that public understanding and awareness of technology and the science behind it is crucial for us to benefit from it to the full. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
His passion is designing dependable systems to accommodate human error, especially in healthcare. See CHI+MED: Multidisciplinary Computer-Human Interaction research for the design and safe use of interactive medical devices for a major project he’s been on. See for some of his recent work in healthcare IT.
Harold is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, the Institute of Engineering Technology, the Learned Society of Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
PhD Students
Serious Games, Ageing, Assistive Technologies
Cognitive Rehabilitation, Stroke, Virtual Reality, Activities of Daily Living
Information Systems, Organizational Engineering, Adaptive Object Model, Enterprise Ontology, Normalized Systems
Slides Poster (No presented)
Physiological Computing, Games for Health, Senior Adults, Virtual Reality, Exercise Promotion.
Digital Media, Storytelling, Entertainment Computing, Tourism, User Experience, Location Aware.
Museums, Younger Audiences, Visitor User Experience, Storytelling, Gamification.
Integrated Management of Resources, Electric power grid, VPP, Porto Santo Island.