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Lisbon, Portugal

England, United Kingdom

Lisbon, Portugal

Working as a Mid UX Researcher consultant with the Blue Prism Product Team.

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

• The main qualitative methods I used were diary studies (using several tools, such as paper, calls, and WhatsApp), usability tests, and contextual inquiries.
• I suggested a new survey tool and helped create survey templates for the major types of questionnaires done by the TV Design & Experience Team.
• Suggested and set up a tool to manage testers' contact information.
• I also drafted, designed, conducted, and analyzed experiments.

Madeira Island, Portugal

• I received a scholarship from the interdisciplinary lab M-iti to execute my research project centered on human behavior. I explored how perceived aesthetic pleasure from visual quotes (quote posters) impacts people's.
• I had the opportunity of working in a multicultural environment with colleagues from all over the world (Italy, India, Bangladesh, USA, Brazil, France, Australia, Colombia, UK, Cyprus, etc.).
• The main methods used were online experiments and surveys.
• The main topic of my Ph.D. project was published at the 12th Persuasive Technology Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2017 and received the Best Poster Award.
• Attended a Research Methods and Statistics course, focused on designing experiments and in quantitative data analysis.

Aveiro, Portugal

• Conducted qualitative research, such as user studies, usability tests, iterative design evaluations, cognitive walk-throughs, user experience tests (around 10 individuals in each), to improve the user experience of a.
• Created user cases/scenarios and personas aligned with the business goals (of the industry partners, Altran consultant, and Outsoft, Software engineering).
• Communicated the findings and promoted the importance of such activities to ensure a good user experience of the product.

Coimbra, Portugal

• My major role was to generate concepts for interactive installations related to augmented reality and natural user interfaces.
• Supervised the team (3 individuals) that developed the prototypes (proofs of concept), a graphic designer, and two informatics engineering students.
• Participated in the stakeholders’ meetings with the industry partner YDreams and the other involved universities and was responsible for the ideas and visual style of the work from our lab.

Phd In Digital Media (Human Computer Interaction), (Ut Austin Usa | Portugal Program)

• Participated in several workshops and short courses related to research skills, namely: research design, quantitative research (R.

User Experience Research And Design Micromasters

This micro master offered me a user experience research framework. Seven of a total of 9 courses fully finished. We finished the courses.

Master'S Degree, Design & Multimedia

• Published two student works as posters in the top conference SIGGRAPH (Abstract Ocean Waves, Vancouver Canada, 2011; Generative Book.

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Design