is a full professor in the Computer Science Department at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and is currently the vice-chair for the Department. She has a Ph.D in Informatics from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1994). She is the coordinator of PENSi – Research Group in Semiotic Engineering and Interaction and her research is in Human-Computer Interaction and Collaborative Systems and her areas of interest include Semiotic Engineeering Theory and methods, interface evaluation, communicability and end-user programming. She was granted the “Outstanding HCI Career Award” by the Brazilian Special Committee for HCI (CEIHC) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) in 2022. She is active in the national and international communities of HCI and Collaborative Systems, having been the chair for the Brazilian Collaborative Systems Special Committee (CESC) and CEIHC, SBC´s representative at IFIP TC13, and member of the SIGCHI EC, full papers co-chair for ACM GROUP 2022/2023 – Third Wave. She is currently one of the editors of Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) from Springer and member of the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Committee since December 2022.

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