Gastworkshop von Teresa Romao

7. März 2024, 14.00 bis 16.00 Uhr Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, Lecture Room

Teresa Romao, Professor from NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | FCT NOVA Universidade NOVA de Lisboa www.fct.unl.pt

Enhancing The User Experience

In the 21^st century technology has become a commodity and the user has come to be the focus of attention when designing interactive systems and applications. Considering the growing importance of User eXperience (UX) over technology, we approach the use of smart technology to deliver engaging experiences. Powerful multi-sensor mobile devices, wearables, tangible interfaces, as well as more down-to-earth interactive systems are potential vehicles for providing users with enhanced experiences that facilitate the accomplishment of their daily life tasks, engage them in healthy activities, promote wellbeing and positive emotions, as well as stimulate thoughts, emotions, or ideas. In this workshop we start by presenting and discussing several research prototype systems designed to enhance the UX in several real-life scenarios. Then we address the interactive systems’ iterative design process with special focus on the evaluation phase. We will learn how to carry out user studies to validate assumptions and test our creations directly with potential users. On a hands-on approach we will experiment usability testing methods.

Teresa Romão is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal where she teaches and develops research work in Human-Computer Interaction. She is also an integrated member of the research center NOVA LINCS (Multimodal Systems group). She studied computer science at FCT/UNL and received her PhD degree from the same University in 2001. She has been coordinating and participating in several national and European research projects related with computer entertainment, augmented reality, mobile storytelling, ubiquitous computing and persuasive technology. Teresa Romão supervised numerous PhD and MSc thesis already completed and she is currently supervising 2 PhD students and 7 MSc students.  She has authored +100 publications in books, peer reviewed journals and conferences (e.g. CHI, UIST, INTERACT, MobileHCI, ACE). Teresa Romão has been involved in the organization and served on the program committees of various national and top international conferences (e.g. CHI, INTERACT, EICS, ACE, IEEE VR). She was member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology – ACE (2012-2017).