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is Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Computer Engineering Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira, since May 2018. He teaches Programming Usable Interfaces, Software Processes and Metrics, Advanced Research Topics and other curricular units related with Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. Pedro holds an Habilitation from the University of Aveiro (Feb. 2018), a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Madeira (Oct. 2006), and a BSc and MSc in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (2002, 2003). Pedro has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers in the fields of HCI, and has participated in the program committee of more than 50 international conferences, and had leading roles in the organization of more than 28 international conferences, serving as president of the program committee, associate chair, local organizer, posters chair, demos chair and others. He is currently the national delegate to the IFIP\\\'s Human-Computer Interaction (TC13), where he is also vice-chair of the 13.6 HWID (Human Work Interaction Design) working group. He co-founded the HWID (Human Work Interaction Design) conference series held every 3 years since 2006, and published by Springer-Verlag. He is Area Editor of the EAI Transactions on Creative Technologies.

last update: March 2022

Articles published on IXD&A:

• ‘Design Implications for Interactive and Analogue Technologies supporting Distance Education: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study during the Pandemic’, N. 52, 2022, pp. 6 – 22, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052-001), Google Scholar
"We believe that challenging times demand HCI education to pay attention to current real-life, complex, systemic problems. Therefore, we suggest an integrated framework for teaching HCI that involves c..."
• ‘HCI Design and Evaluation during Social Confinement: Reflections and Techniques’, N. 50, 2021, pp. 48 – 57, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-050-003), Google Scholar
"The pandemic brought a number of challenges that provoked a major impact on almost every human activity. In this new context, designers of tech-nologies aimed at supporting mental or physical health a..."

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