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Bio I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden, and an Invited Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IST: Instituto Superior Técnico/Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS in Lisbon, Portugal.
My work draws from the fields of interaction design Informatics and feminist science and technology studies; it is in dialogue with material-centered & justice-oriented design approaches. My research engages critically with the design of technologies concerned with the experiential qualities of care, particularly within the domain of Intimate Digital (Women’s) Health & Wellbeing.
Research: My research is concerned with Interaction Design for health and wellbeing and I work within the area of (HCI) Human-Computer Interaction/Design. I am interested in designing technologies that challenge everyday practices and ways that people approach and (co)design innovative technological interventions as tools for knowledge production in diverse contexts of care. My work is design-led and interventional, and I design e.g. interactions and prototypes as catalysts for dialogue that will drive social innovation and transform perspectives on societal challenges.
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Email me at teresa.almeida@umu.se
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2024
2023
September: My Master's thesis student at IST, Diana Moniz, is presenting a short paper at INTERACT 2023. More soon!
August: I am an Associate Chair for TEI 2024 which will take place in Ireland next year.
July: DIS 2023 took place at Carnegie Mellon US. This year, I was a Subcommittee Chair for 'Experiences, Artifacts, and Technology', paper track.
June: Congratulations to Anna Rebecca Unterholzner for passing her Ph.D. with Distinction and Praise at the University of Lisbon. I was a member of the grading committee.
June: The CyFer Exhibition is now open until September at RHUL!
June: I presented two publications during CyberMi2 Research Day at RHUL, UK
June: Congratulations to my HCIUX Master's thesis students at Umeå Informatics who ALL passed their thesis with Distinction!
June: Soft launching Material Intersections with a Research Seminar by Claudia Núñez-Pacheco. More news after the Summer!
May: EP. 1555 is out! Talking about my research with 90 Segundos de Ciência (90 Secs of Science) podcast.
April: Our article "Designing to Restory the Past: Storytelling for Empowerment through a Digital Archive" is now available online (open access).
March: I co-hosted a session at MozFest: "CyFer Creative Exchange: Artists and designers' responses to the privacy, ethics and security of female oriented technology"
January: Moving back houses to Umeå, Sweden *-*
January: I had a blast conducting this creative workshop at Musex, Museum of Sex Education in Lisbon, Portugal.