About Me
About Me
Victor-Adriel de-Jesus-Oliveira is a human-computer interaction researcher, FH-Professor at St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, and deputy academic director of the Bachelor's Creative Computing.
From 2015 to 2016, he worked as a Fellow PhD at the Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - Genova, under the supervision of Luca Brayda, PhD. He graduated in Computer Science at State University of Santa Cruz in 2012. He also holds an M.Sc. (since 2014) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (since 2018) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was supervised by Anderson Maciel, PhD and Luciana Nedel, PhD. Victor works mainly in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, especially on Multisensory and Multimodal Interaction, Virtual Reality, Digital Accessibility, Data Visualization, and Educational Comics.
Winner of the 2025 Data Sonification Awards with "Auditory Feedback in Tele-rehabilitation Based on Automated Gait Classification".
Best Short Paper Honorable Mention Award for "The Comic Construction Kit: An Activity for Students to Learn and Explain Data Visualizations" at IEEE VIS 2024.
ICMI 2022 Best Reviewer Award.
Best Paper for "Mind the Steps: Towards Auditory Feedback in Tele-Rehabilitation Based on Automated Gait Classification", presented at AM, 2021.
Second place at the "Alexa for Wellbeing Online Challenge" with the solution EasyGroceries.
3DUI Contest Winner for "3DUI and the Phantom Limb: multisensory experience for embodiment of amputation" at IEEE VR 2020.
Ph.D. in Computer Science awarded with praise (Cum Laude Distinction).
Best Full Paper for "Assessment of an Articulatory Interface for Tactile Intercommunication in Immersive Virtual Environments", presented at SVR, 2018.
3rd Place on People's Choice Award for Tactile Treasure Map: Integrating Allocentric and Egocentric Information for Tactile Guidance, presented at AsiaHaptics, 2016.
Finalist on the XXVIII Concurso de Teses e Dissertações (CTD) for Designing Tactile Vocabularies for Human-Computer Interaction, presented at SBC, 2015.
Best Application Paper for Tactile Interface for Navigation in Underground Mines, presented at SVR, 2014.
Wer mit Comics lernt, kann sich Schulstoff besser merken, published at Campus Schulmanagement, May 3rd, 2024
Mit Comics die Wissenschaft erklären, published at FHSTP's Newsroom, March 21st, 2024
VisGames Workshop (EuroVis 2025): Organization Committee
HUCAPP 2025: Associate Chair - Theories, Models and User Evaluation, and Session Chair (Paper Session "Visual Analytics")
HUCAPP 2024: Associate Chair - Theories, Models and User Evaluation
IEEE VR 2023: PC Member
IEEE VR 2022: PC Member and Session Chair (Paper Session "Inclusive VR")
SVR 2021: Program and Publication Chair
BWB 2020: Mentor of the Alexa for Wellbeing Online Challenge.
XChange Reality! 2020: Mentor of the OpenGLAM hackathon.
EUROHAPTICS 2018: Student Volunteer.
SVR 2016: Student Volunteer, Webmaster and Publicity Chair.
HAPTICS 2016: Student Volunteer.
SINFORM 2011: Student Volunteer
SINFORM 2010: Student Volunteer and Webmaster
PGDay Bahia 2010: Student Volunteer
SINFORM 2009: Student Volunteer
CPU 2009: Co-Chair with Pereira, V. A., Santos Neto, J. P., Santana, L. G. S. M. & Goes Júnior, E. S.
CPU 2008: Student Volunteer
2025: HUCAPP (Associate Chair), Pacific Graphics, IEEE VR, ICMI, SVR, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Colombian Computing Conference, Journal on Interactive Systems, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
2024: HUCAPP (Associate Chair), EuroVis, Springer UAIS, ANIVAE, ISMAR, XR-SPro, AudioMostly, SVR, ICMI, ACII, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Frontiers in Virtual Reality
2023: IEEE VR (PC Member), ICMI (PC Member), AHs, INTERACT, ISMAR, SUI, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
2022: IEEE VR (PC Member), Audio Mostly, ICMI, ISMAR, XR-SPro (ISMAR - PC Member), Journal on Interactive Systems, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
2021: Computer&Graphics - Special Issue (Guest Editor), SVR (Chair), IEEE VR (PC Member), INTERACT, ICMI, ISMAR, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
2020: MDPI, IEEE VR, Eurohaptics, IEEE Haptics Symposium, IEEE ISMAR, ICMI, ACM VRST
2019: MDPI, IEEE VR, LBW - CHI, WorldHaptics, INTERACT, LBR - EICS, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, ICMI, ACM DIS, SCOOP, IHC
2018: IEEE VR, IEEE Haptics Symposium, LBW - CHI (PC Member), ACM DIS, IHC, ACM SUI, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
2017: IEEE VR, WorldHaptics, CASA, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
2016: WUW - SIBGRAPI, IEEE 3DUI
2015: ACM VRST
2013: WRVA
Invited talk "Beyond Compliance: My perspective on digital accessibility" for Instituto Federal do Pará (Campus Óbidos), in April 2025.
Co-teaching activity "Introducing Native Android Development with Kotlin" for Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS), in October 2024.
Co-teaching activity "Introducing Native Android Development with Kotlin" for Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS), in June 2024.
Presentation at IEEE VIS 2022, Application Spotlight "Audio-Visual Analytics: Potential Applications of Combined Sonifications and Visualizations".
Invited talk "Haptic Interaction & XR A11y" to Universität Stuttgart, in July 2021.
Spotlight Workshop "Good Vibrations: How to design a simple Haptic application with Unity3D" at IConCMT 2019.
Workshop on Design and Application of Experiments and User Studies, in June 2018.
CEI Workshop on "Mobile App Development", in June and December 2017.
Talk at Instituto Federal Farroupilha - Campus Alegrete, class of "Mobile App Development", in November 2016.
Tutorial at Instituto de Informática, class of "Projeto em Computação Gráfica (INF 01019)", in November 2016.
Tutorial at SVR 2016 entitled Good Vibrations: Haptic Interaction in Virtual Environments, in June 2016
Talk about the eScanner at NAV (Núcleo de Acessibilidade Virtual) of the IFRS - Campus Bento Gonçalves , in August 2013.
Talk at InfoIlhéus about "Acessibilidade em Sistemas para a Web", in November 2011.
Tutorial "jQuery: A melhor forma de escrever JavaScript" at InfoIlhéus in November 2011.
Tutorial "Programação Web com jQuery" at TecnoJr in 2011.
Tutorial "Programação Web com XHTML e CSS" at TecnoJr in 2011.
Tutorial "Programação Web com CSS" at SINFORM in September 2010.
Tutorial "Desenvolvimento Web utilizando Cascading Style Sheets - CSS" at TecnoJr in 2009.
Masterclass Mobile - MKL-PR-Mob (MIT FHSTP)
Invited Lecturer, WS 2018 / WS 2019 / WS 2020 / WS 2021 / WS 2022 / SS 2024 / SS 2025
Usability and Experience Evaluation - EMH-UEE (BCC FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, WS 2021 / WS 2022 / WS 2023 / WS 2024 / WS 2025
Creative Code Lab 3: Mobile Applications - CCL3 (BCC FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, WS 2021 / WS 2022 / WS 2023 / WS 2024 / WS 2025
Visual Data Analysis - DataVIS-VDA (BMT/BCC FHSTP)
Co-Lecturer, WS 2021 / WS 2022 / WS 2023 / WS 2024 / WS 2025
Media Lab: App Development - (BCC FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, SS 2023 / SS 2024 / SS 2025
Scientific Writing (BMT/BCC FHSTP)
Co-Lecturer, SS 2024 / SS 2025
Schreibcoaching - Elective Module (FHSTP)
Co-Lecturer, SS 2023 / WS 2023 / SS 2024 / WS 2024 / SS 2025
Creative Code Lab 2: Connected Worlds - CCL2 (BCC FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, SS 2023 / SS 2024
Co-Lecturer, SS 2025
Mobile Coding - MP-MC (BCC FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, WS 2022 / WS 2023
iLab Concept Development - iL-CD (iLab FHSTP)
Coach, WS 2020 / SS 2021 / WS 2021 / SS 2022
Design for All - FCC2-DA (BCC FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, SS 2021 / SS 2022
Physical Computing - PC (BMT FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, SS 2022 / SS 2023
Interactive Installations - IAI (BMT FHSTP)
Main Lecturer, SS 2019 / SS 2020 / SS 2021