Ana Cristina de Oliveira Tomé Lopes Pires (9A18-E624-9D00)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Cristina de Oliveira Tomé Lopes Pires

I hold a PhD in Psychology from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). Currently, I am an Invited Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, and a Research Fellow at ITI-LARSyS (Portugal), and Principal Investigator (PI) of the “Interaction and Perception” Research Group at the Center for Basic Research in Psychology (Uruguay). My research work in educational technology has a multidisciplinary focus on Education, Computer Sciences, and Cognitive and Social Psychology, to create inclusive and equitable learning opportunities for children, including children from low socio-economic backgrounds and those with visual impairments. Over the past six years, as the PI on six international research projects, we developed educational and accessible technology with multisensory and interactive objects to potentiate learning, play, and collaboration among children.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Cristina de Oliveira Tomé Lopes Pires

Citation names

Pires, Ana C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9A18-E624-9D00
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7747-7112

Email addresses

ana.pires@iti.larsys.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Information Science
Social Sciences - Psychology
Social Sciences - Psychology - Psychology, Special

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Catalan	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022 - 2025 Ongoing	e-Games (Pós-doutoramento) Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Concluded	ARCADE (Pós-doutoramento) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2021 Concluded	Usable Intrusion Detection & Response on Personal Mobile Devices (Pós-doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal
2012 - 2016 Concluded	Cognitive Psychology - Perception, Comunication and Time (Doutoramento) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain "Predicting the future: spatial facilitation further ahead of visual motion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Special Award for Doctoral Studies, UAB
2016 Concluded	Data analysis on the R platform (Postgraduate Certificate) Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2016 Concluded	Data analysis using Python (Diploma de especialização) Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2014 Concluded	CITI ethical training: Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative for Social & Behavioral Research Investigators (Diploma de especialização) University of Miami, United States
2012 Concluded	Intensive Workshop on signal analysis with Matlab (Diploma de especialização) Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2012 Concluded	Matlab for psychologists (Diploma de especialização) Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2012 Concluded	Writing in the Sciences (Diploma de especialização) Stanford University, United States
2011 Concluded	R statistics (Diploma de especialização) Universidad de la Republica Uruguay Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Uruguay
2011 Concluded	Introduction to Matlab (Diploma de especialização) Universidad de la República Facultad de Ciencias, Uruguay
2011 Concluded	Workshop on Embodied, Distributed and Extended Cognition: Philosophical Perspectives (Outros) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Filosofia, Spain
2008 - 2010 Concluded	Research Methodology in Psychology (Mestrado) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain "Spatial facilitation in the adjacent areas of apparent motion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Excelent with majority (CUM LAUDE)
2009 Concluded	Emotional intelligence (Diploma de especialização) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Psicologia Bàsica Evolutiva i de l'Educació, Spain
2008 Concluded	Workshop on Nature of time, physics and psychology (Outros) Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Spain
2007 Concluded	An Integrative Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (Outros) European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Netherlands
2001 - 2006 Concluded	Psychology (Licenciatura) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Psicologia, Spain

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal

2016/03/01 - 2024/12/31	Invited Principal Investigator (Research)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
	Universidad de la Republica - Facultad de Psicologia - Centro de Investigacion Basica en Psicologia, Uruguay
2022/02/01 - 2022/09/30	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - 2021	Postdoc (Research)	LASIGE Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal
	Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/03	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidad de la República Comisión Sectorial de Investigación, Uruguay

2016 - 2019	Principal Investigator (Research)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

2013 - 2019	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion ANII, Uruguay
	Universidad de la Republica - Facultad de Psicologia - Centro de Investigacion Basica en Psicologia, Uruguay
2016/03/01 - 2017/08/28	Principal Investigator (Research)	Centro para la Inclusión Tecnológica y Social, Uruguay

2014 - 2014	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of Harvard - Lab for Developmental Studies, United States

2012 - 2014	Researcher (Research)	Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay, Uruguay

2012/03/01 - 2012/08/01	Research Assistant (Research)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

2011/05/01 - 2011/07/31	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2010/10/01 - 2011/04/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Center of accessibility and Environmental Intelligence of Catalonia, Spain

2006 - 2011	Researcher (Research)	Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona - Group of Perception, Language and Time, GPLiT, Spain

2010 - 2010	Science and Technology Management	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Psicologia, Spain

2009 - 2010	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona- Centre Visió por Computació, Spain

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09 - Current	Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/05/01 - 2018/09/01	Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidad de la República Uruguay Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Uruguay

2016/04/01 - 2018/08/01	Assistant (University Teacher)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2009/09/01 - 2010/09/01	Assistant of the Corporate Learning Director of Harvard Business School in Europe	Harvard Business School, United States

2010/01/04 - 2010/06/07	Study of the use of eye-tracker’s devices in the Iberian Peninsula	Alt64, Spain

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024/09 - 2025/08	Misinformation/Disinformation and Generative AI: Building Young Refugees' Skills RAi UK Skills Pillar funding call_Misinformation/Disinformation and Generative AI: Building Young Refugees' Skills and Capacities Invited Scientist Fellow Northumbria University, United Kingdom	Responsible AI UK Ongoing
2012/06/15 - 2016/02/08	PERCEÇÃO DO MOVIMENTO: PRÉ-ATIVAÇÃO NEURONAL E O MECANISMO DE FACILITAÇÃO ESPACIAL - INVESTIGAÇÃO TRANSDISCIPLINAR ENTRE PSICOLOGIA COGNITIVA E NEUROBIOLOGIA SFRH/BD/77098/2011 PhD Student Fellow Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2010 - 2011	DTV4All DTV4All Research Fellow European Commission, Belgium

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/10/01 - 2025/09/30	E-games 022399-00000057 Post-doc Fellow Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal	European Union Ongoing
2023/01/18 - 2025/02/28	Spatial Data Science Services for COVID-19 Pandemic DSAIPA/DS/0115/2020 Principal investigator Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal	Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2024/08/29	LEMON, LEtter learning through MOtor training: Neurocognitive specialization for the written code investigated with electrophysiological, eye-tracking, and computational tools PTDC/PSI-GER/3281/2020 10.54499/PTDC/PSI-GER/3281/2020 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Portugal LASIGE Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2024/06/30	Plug n' Play: Exploring Asymmetry and Modularity for Inclusive Game Design 2022.08895.PTDC 10.54499/2022.08895.PTDC FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2024/06/30	Virtual Reality Accessible to Visually Impaired People 2022.08286.PTDC 10.54499/2022.08286.PTDC FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/03/01 - 2023/05/28	Exploring the Transfer of Agency to Older Adults in HRI CMU/TIC/0026/2021 10.54499/CMU/TIC/0026/2021 FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal LASIGE Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01 - 2021/01/31	SmartFeeding4Kids PTDC/PSI-GER/30432/2017 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/12/01 - 2020/11/30	Usable Intrusion Detection & Response on Personal Mobile Devices n30347, ref AAC 02/SAICT/2017 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2017 - 2019	Study of the modulations of the effect of metaphorical assignments in lexical-semantic and discursive-semantic processing ANII_FCE_3_2016_1_127048 Researcher
2017/04 - 2018/07	Technology for inclusion. New tools for special education FSED_2_2016_1_131112 Principal investigator Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay	Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion ANII Concluded
2016 - 2017	Tangible Education. New modalities of interaction for learning. FSED_2_2015_1_120888 Principal investigator	National Agency for Investigation and Innovation (ANII) Concluded
2016 - 2017	Measurement of executive functions through integrable technologies in digital devices FSED_2_2015_120918 Principal investigator	National Agency for Investigation and Innovation (ANII), Uruguay
2016 - 2017	Playing and strengthening math skills with Vektor -new digital tools VEKTOR2015 Principal investigator
2015 - 2017	Numerical Cognition: from spatial and temporal perception to math CSIC_COGNUM Researcher	Universidad de la República Comisión Sectorial de Investigación

Other

	Designation	Funders
2014 - 2014	Children's expectations about training games ExpCogNum2014 Principal investigator University of Harvard - Lab for Developmental Studies, United States	Concluded
2012 - 2014	Creation of a screening tool in game format for ADHD children. MV_ANII_PT_TDAH Researcher Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion ANII, Uruguay	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Patricia Piedade; Isabel Neto; Ana Pires; Rui Prada; Hugo Nicolau. "“That’s Our Game!”: Reflections on Co-designing a Robotic Game with Neurodiverse Children". 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-61688-4_15 Branco, Diogo; Pires, Ana C.; Simão, Hugo; Gomes, Ana; Pereira, Ana; Sousa, Joana; Barros, Luísa; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Exploring How a Digitized Program Can Support Parents to Improve Their Children’s Nutritional Habits". In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021, 211-220. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-85610-6_13 Pires, Ana C.. "Percepción de Tiempos Breves.". In Psicología del Tiempo: Una introducción a la temporalidad en las ciencias del comportamiento. Uruguay, 2020. In press Pires, Ana Cristina; Gonzalez, Fernando; Bakala, Ewelina; Fleischer, Bruno; Sansone, Gustavo; Marichal, Sebastián. "Towards an Understanding of the Relationship between Spatial Processing Ability and Numerical and Mathematical Cognition". Frontiers Media SA, 2020. Published • 10.3389/978-2-88963-534-4 Maiche, A.; Pires, Ana C.; Chanes, L.; Vazquez, A.; Gonzalez, F.. "¿Cómo percibimos el mundo?". In Psicobiologia. Spain, 2018. Alejandro Maiche; Gonzalez, H.; Pires, Ana C.. "Percepción". In Manual de Psicología Cognitiva. 2014. Pires, Ana C.; Vasquez, A; Carboni, A.; Maiche, A.. "Percepción Visual". In Neurociencia Cognitiva. Diego Redolar (ed).. Editora medica Panamericana. Buenos Aires., 2012. Tome-Pires, C; Pires, Ana C.. "Iatrogenia Farmacológica e Psicologia Positiva: uma visão integradora". In Bem Estar e Qualidade de vida. Contributos da Psicologia da Saúde. Textiverso 1ª Edição. 2009. Tome-Pires, C; Pires, Ana C.. "O Treino de Bio-Absorção Imagética (TBI): sua conceptualização enquanto procedimento de hipnose desperta". In Hipnose Clínca. Fundamentos e Aplicações em Psicologia e Saúde. Psicosoma 1ª Edição. 2009.
Conference paper	Patricia Piedade; Isabel Neto; Ana Cristina Pires; Rui Prada; Hugo Nicolau. "Inclusion as a Process: Co-Designing an Inclusive Robotic Game with Neurodiverse Classrooms". 2024. 10.1145/3663548.3675664 Katharina Buckmayer; Filipa Rocha; Elisa Rubegni; Reem Talhouk; Hugo Nicolau; Ana Cristina Pires. "Participatory Design with Young Children: Failures, Challenges, and Successes". 2024. 10.1145/3628516.3661158 Katharina Buckmayer; Hugo Nicolau; Ana Cristina Pires. "Storytelling with ALMA: A Multisensory Approach to Enhance Kindergarteners' Emotion Regulation". 2024. 10.1145/3628516.3659412 Fernando Gonzalez-Perilli; Camila Hergatacorzian; Mariana Daluz; Gonzalo Varela; Juan Goyret; Ana Cristina Pires. "They played for 45 minutes!?: Evaluating Jo! a TUI Tailored for Real-World Classroom Setting". 2024. 10.1145/3628516.3659381 Romina Abeldaño; Ewelina Bakala; Santiago Hitta; Ana Cristina Pires. ""This is like a toy, it already got me": Results of Two Usability Studies of Robotito VPL App with Teachers: Robotito VPL Usability Evaluations". 2024. 10.1145/3628516.3659418 Anna R. L. Carter; Kyle Montague; Reem Talhouk; Shaun Lawson; Hugo Nicolau; Ana Cristina Pires; Markus Rohde; Alessio Del Bue; Tiffany Knearem. "DCitizens Roles Unveiled: SIG Navigating Identities in Digital Civics and the Spectrum of Societal Impact". 2024. 10.1145/3613905.3643981 Patricia Piedade; Isabel Neto; Ana Cristina Pires; Rui Prada; Hugo Nicolau. "PartiPlay: A Participatory Game Design Kit for Neurodiverse Classrooms". 2023. 10.1145/3597638.3614496 Ewelina Bakala; Ana Cristina Pires; Gonzalo Tejera; Juan Pablo Hourcade. "“It will surely fall”: Exploring Teachers’ Perspectives on Commercial Robots for Preschoolers". 2023. 10.1145/3582515.3609570 Pires, Ana C.; Abreu, Lúcia Verónica; Rocha, Filipa; Simão, Hugo; Guerreiro, João; Nicolau, Hugo; GUERREIRO, TIAGO. Corresponding author: Pires, Ana C.. "Exploring Play with an Inclusive Multisensory Environment for Children with Mixed-Visual Abilities". Paper presented in ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, 2023. Ana Cristina Pires; Lúcia Verónica Abreu; Filipa Rocha; Hugo Simão; João Guerreiro; Hugo Nicolau; Tiago Guerreiro. "TACTOPI: Exploring Play with an Inclusive Multisensory Environment for Children with Mixed-Visual Abilities". 2023. 10.1145/3585088.3589389 Filipa Rocha; Filipa Correia; Isabel Neto; Ana Cristina Pires; João Guerreiro; Tiago Guerreiro; Hugo Nicolau. "Coding Together: On Co-located and Remote Collaboration between Children with Mixed-Visual Abilities". 2023. 10.1145/3544548.3581261 Bakala, Ewelina; Pires, Ana C.; Mariana da Luz; Maria Pascale; Tejera, Gonzalo; Hourcade, Juan Pablo. "Coding with Colors: Children’s Errors Committed While Programming Robotito for the First Time.". Paper presented in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023, 2023. Rocha, Filipa; Pires, Ana Cristina; Neto, Isabel; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Accembly at Home: Accessible Spatial Programming for Children with Visual Impairments and their Families". Paper presented in ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC’21)., 2021. 10.1145/3459990.3460699 Rocha, Filipa; Guimarães, Guilherme; Gonçalves, David; Pires, Ana Cristina; Abreu, Lúcia Verónica; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Fostering collaboration with asymmetric roles in accessible programming environments for children with mixed-visual-abilities". 2021. 10.1145/3441852.3476553 Simão, Hugo; Pires, Ana C.; Gonçalves, David; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Carrier-pigeon Robot: Promoting Interactions Among Older Adults in a Care Home". Paper presented in 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020. 10.1145/3371382.3378361 Pires, Ana Cristina; Rocha, Filipa; de Barros Neto, Antonio José; Simão, Hugo; Nicolau, Hugo; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Exploring accessible programming with educators and visually impaired children". 2020. 10.1145/3392063.3394437 Pires, Ana Cristina; Marichal, Sebastian; Gonzalez-Perilli, Fernando; Bakala, Ewelina; Fleischer, Bruno; Sansone, Gustavo; Guerreiro, Tiago. "A Tangible Math Game for Visually Impaired Children". 2019. 10.1145/3308561.3354596 Marichal, Sebastián; Rosales, Andrea; Sansone, Gustavo; Pires, Ana Cristina; Bakala, Ewelina; Perilli, Fernando Gonzalez; Fleischer, Bruno; Blat, Josep. "LETSmath". Paper presented in MobileHCI '18 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, 2018. 10.1145/3236112.3236157 Marichal, S.; Bakala, E.; Rosales, A.; Perilli, F.G.; Sansone, G.; Blat, J.; Pires, A.C.. "CETA: Open, affordable and portable mixed-reality environment for low-cost tablets". 2017. 10.1145/3098279.3125435 Marichal, S.; Rosales, A.; Perilli, F.G.; Pires, A.C.; Bakala, E.; Sansone, G.; Blat, J.. "CETA: Designing mixed-reality tangible interaction to enhance mathematical learning". 2017. 10.1145/3098279.3098536
Conference poster	Cardoso, Gonçalo; Pires, Ana C.; Abreu, Lúcia; Rocha, Filipa; GUERREIRO, TIAGO. "LEGOWorld: Repurposing Commodity Tools & Technologies to Create an Accessible and Customizable Programming Environment.". Paper presented in ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021, 2021. Abreu, Lúcia; Pires, Ana Cristina; Guerreiro, Tiago. "TACTOPI: a Playful Approach to Promote Computational Thinking for Visually Impaired Children". Paper presented in ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3589389, 2020. 10.1145/3373625.3418003 Simão, Hugo; Pires, Ana; Gonçalves, David; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Carrier-pigeon Robot". Paper presented in Human Robot Interaction, 2020. 10.1145/3371382.3378361 franco, jose; Pires, Ana C.; Carriço, Luis; GUERREIRO, TIAGO. "Usable Logging as a Security Response to Physical Attacks on Mobile Devices". Paper presented in ACSAC'20: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2020. Franco, José; Pires, Ana C.; Carriço, Luis; GUERREIRO, TIAGO. "Franco, J., Pires, A. C., Carriço, L. & Guerreiro, T. (2020). Usable Logging as a Security Response to Physical Attacks on Mobile Devices.". Paper presented in Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019. Pires, Ana C.. "Measurement of Executive Functions Through Computerized Games to Incorporate in Learning Analytics.". Paper presented in The International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology (ICEEPSY). Porto, Portugal, 2017. Pires, Ana C.; de Menas. S; Alejandro Maiche. "Predicting the future: spatial facilitation for moving objects.". Paper presented in 9th IBRO World Congress on Neuroscience, 2015. Mendez, A; Vasquez, A; Varela, R; Pires, Ana C.; Martin, A; Gonzalez, F. ; Alejandro Maiche; Carboni, A.. "Time processing skills in young children: a transversal study in educational settings.". Paper presented in International Symposium on Science for Education., 2015. Gonzalez, F; Vilaro, A.; Villalobos, N.; Capurso, F; Montes, L; Goni, L; Fernandez, E; Pires, Ana C.. "Recognizing Monalisa from a bunch of circles: an eye tracking study.". Paper presented in 6º Congreso Ibérico de Percepción. Madrid, Spain, 2015. Vasquez, A; Martin, A; Pires, Ana C.; Gonzalez, F. ; Mendez, A; Alejandro Maiche; Carboni, A.. "Time perception and delay aversion.". Paper presented in 2nd International Conference on Time Perspective. Warsaw, Poland, 2014. Pires, Ana C.; Alejandro Maiche. "Motion spatially facilitates the detection of static objects.". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany, 2013. Pires, Ana C.; Alejandro Maiche. "Temporal perception is distorted by previous motion.". Paper presented in International Conference on Time Perspective. Coimbra, Portugal, 2012. Pires, Ana C.; Gonzalez, F. ; Juan Ramon Barrada; Alejandro Maiche. "Spatial facilitation in the adjacent areas of apparent motion.". Paper presented in The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition. University of Trieste, Italy, 2010. Gonzalez, F. ; Alejandro Maiche; Pires, Ana C.; Vilaro, A.; Aguirre, R. "Time is critical to the grasping facilitation on object identification.". Paper presented in Conceptual Structure discourse and Language - Embodied, situated language processing. University of California, San Diego, US, 2010. Estaún, S.; Mate, J.; Pires, Ana C.. "The influence of the speed of environmental stimuli on estimating duration of a static stimulus.". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception Russian Academy of Science. St Petersburg, Russia., 2006. Pires, Ana C.; Mate, J.; Renner, A; Alejandro Maiche; Estaún, S.. "Influencia de la velocidad de los estímulos del entorno sobre la percepción del tiempo". Paper presented in II Congreso Hispano Portugués de Psicología. Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal, 2004.
Journal article	Filipe Tomé; Ana Pires; Anna Jiskrová; Ana Saial; Pedro F. Campos. ""I Found it Cathartic": Exploring Empathy and Mental Health Awareness in Psychological Horror Video Games". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2024): https://doi.org/10.1145/3677083. 10.1145/3677083 Simão, Hugo; Gonçalves, David; Pires, Ana C.; Abreu, Lúcia; Bernardino, Alexandre; Forlizzi, Jodi; Guerreiro, Tiago. "“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI". International Journal of Social Robotics 16 8 (2024): 1721-1734. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-024-01128-y. Published • 10.1007/s12369-024-01128-y Marichal, Sebastián; Rosales, Andrea; González Perilli, Fernando; Pires, Ana Cristina; Blat, Josep. "Auditory and haptic feedback to train basic mathematical skills of children with visual impairments". Behaviour & Information Technology (2022): 1-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2022.2060860. 10.1080/0144929x.2022.2060860 Gomes, Ana Isabel; Pereira, Ana Isabel; Guerreiro, Tiago; Branco, Diogo; Roberto, Magda Sofia; Pires, Ana; Sousa, Joana; Baranowski, Tom; Barros, Luísa. "SmartFeeding4Kids, an online self-guided parenting intervention to promote positive feeding practices and healthy diet in young children: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial". Trials 22 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05897-z. 10.1186/s13063-021-05897-z Pires, Ana Cristina; Bakala, Ewelina; González-Perilli, Fernando; Sansone, Gustavo; Fleischer, Bruno; Marichal, Sebastián; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Learning maths with a tangible user interface: Lessons learned through participatory design with children with visual impairments and their educators". International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (2021): 100382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100382. 10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100382 Pires, Ana Cristina; González Perilli, Fernando; Bakala, Ewelina; Fleisher, Bruno; Sansone, Gustavo; Marichal, Sebastián. "Building Blocks of Mathematical Learning: Virtual and Tangible Manipulatives Lead to Different Strategies in Number Composition". Frontiers in Education 4 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00081. 10.3389/feduc.2019.00081 Dresler, Thomas; Bugden, Stephanie; Gouet, Camilo; Lallier, Marie; Oliveira, Darlene G.; Pinheiro-Chagas, Pedro; Pires, Ana C.; et al. "A Translational Framework of Educational Neuroscience in Learning Disorders". Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 12 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2018.00025. Open access • Published • 10.3389/fnint.2018.00025 Pires, Ana C.; Pires, Ana C.. "Temporal Perception and Delay Aversion: a videogame screening tool for the early detection of ADHD.". Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento (2015): http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1852-42062015000300010. Krejtz, K.; Duchowski, A.; Szmidt, T.; Krejtz, I.; Perilli, F.G.; Pires, A.; Vilaro, A.; Villalobos, N.. "Gaze transition entropy". ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 13 1 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84954108136&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1145/2834121 Dillon, M.R.; Pires, A.C.; Hyde, D.C.; Spelke, E.S.. "Children's expectations about training the approximate number system". British Journal of Developmental Psychology 33 4 (2015): 411-418. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84943811226&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/bjdp.12118 Mate, J.; Pires, A.C.; Campoy, G.; Estaún, S.. "Estimating the duration of visual stimuli in motion environments \| Estimación de la duración de estímulos visuales en contextos en movimiento". Psicologica 33 2 (2012): 287-300. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84858589913&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Magazine article	Pires, Ana C.; Rocha, Filipa; GUERREIRO, TIAGO; Hugo Nicolau. "Inclusive Computational Thinking in Public Schools: A Case Study from Lisbon", Interactions, 2024, 10.1145/3665992.
Thesis / Dissertation	Pires, Ana Cristina de Oliveira Tomé Lopes. "Predicting the future: spatial facilitation further ahead of visual motion". PhD, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/80435.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020	Exploring Accessible Programming with Educators and Visually Impaired Children.	Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC’20), London (virtual)
2020	Technology and Education for all: Enhancing learning experiences through Tangible User Interfaces for young children with mixed visual-abilities.	Talks at the Department of Informatic, Universidade de Lisboa
2019	A Tangible Math Game for Visually Impaired Children.	21th International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’19)
2018	Visual perception for educators.	Postgraduate course Contributions of Cognitive Sciences to Education.
2016/11/02	Cognition does matter!	Seminar at The Global Net of Learning Ceibal Foundation (Montevideo, Uruguay)
2016/05/05	Perception and representation. Seminar at Master Cognitive Sciences	Master Cognitive Science Interdisciplinary space, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay (Montevideo, Uruguay)
2014	Approximate number system, training games and expectations.	Seminar at BU Child Cognition Lab, University of Boston. Boston, US
2014	Apparent motion provokes Spatial facilitation.	Seminar at Champalimaud Foundation Lisboa, Portugal
2011	Spatial facilitation and motion	Seminar at IBILI, Coimbra, Portugal
2011	Simposium III “Motion in vision”: Motion influences Time	Fourth Iberian Conference on Perception. Mallorca, Spain
2007	Time perception and motion environments.	Seminar "Perception, Communication and Time", Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain.
2004	Review: autobiographical memory.	Taules Rodones sobre el camps de aplicació en Psicologia de la Memoria. Faculty of Psychology, UAB, Spain

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current	A Child-deprivation Monitoring System for Schools Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09 - Current	Co-designing an AI Toolikit With/ For Children Co-supervisor	Universidade Europeia IADE Faculdade de Design Tecnologia e Comunicação, Portugal
2024/09 - Current	Exploring Artificial Intelligence into Outdoor Play Experiences for Young Children Supervisor	Exploring Artificial Intelligence into Outdoor Play Experiences for Young Children (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09 - Current	Community-driven Digital Storytelling: Preserving Memories, Fostering Civic Engagement, and Improving Digital Literacy Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - Current	A Framework for Emotion Regulation Through Multisensory Digital Storytelling and Tangibles Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - Current	Creating Empathy with Interactive Digital Games Supervisor	Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Socio-technical infrastructuring of civic data for/with NGOs Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Refugees Sponsorship Program: Community Building Towards Social Action with technology Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Exploring Artificial Intelligence into Outdoor Play Experiences for Young Children Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2021	TACTOPI: An Interface for Visually Impaired Children to acquire Computational Thinking through touch stimuli explorations Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020	Using Robots to Make Computer Science Accessible to Children with Visual Impairments Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020	Multimodal Accesible Programming Environment Aceesible for Children with Visual Impairments Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020	Collaborative Programming in Mixed-Ability Classrooms Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016	Cognition and Theater: Theory of mind, empathy, and creativity in first grade Supervisor	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/07 - Current	Workshop Organizer and Lecturer “Co-Designing with Mixed-Ability Groups of Children to Promote Inclusive Education”. (2022) Workshop (Co-organisor)
2024 - 2024	2024 Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN) symposium (2024/07) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
2014 - 2014	Cognitive psychology education: current situation and perspectives (2014 - 2014) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidad de la Republica - Facultad de Psicologia - Centro de Investigacion Basica en Psicologia, Uruguay
2011 - 2011	III Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD) (2011) Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Traducció i d'Interpretació, Spain
2009 - 2009	Winter School on Eye-Tracking Methodology (WSETM'2009) . Member of the organizing committee and co-organized and delivered 6 lab sessions and responsible for 3 open-lab sessions “Data Analysis I” y “Data Analysis II” (total 12 hours). (2009) Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2007 - 2007	5th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (WCBCT) European association for behavioural and cognitive therapies, Spain (2007) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Pushing the Boundaries of Participatory Design with Children with Special Needs Workshop	IDC Interaction Design and Children, Boise, EEUU (1 day)
2019 - 2019	Premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2019 - 2019	Annual conference that promotes research concentrating on the design, development, and use of interactive technologies for children. Conference	ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2019 - 2019	Premier forum for presenting research on the design, evaluation, use, and education related to computing for people with disabilities and older adults. Conference	21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2019 - 2019	Learning, Education, and HCI Workshop	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2019 - 2019	Evaluating Technologies with and for Disabled Children Workshop	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2014 - 2014	One of fifty international applicants to receive fully-funded scholarship to attend to lectures and discussion forums (total 2 weeks) Other	4th Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences (LA school). James S McDonnell Foundation, United States

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2019	Contributions to the development of devices with tangible interaction in near space. (Thesis) Main arguer	Gustavo Sansone (Other) Universidad de la Republica - Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño, Uruguay
2018	Creation and playback of in-context tutorials to improve the accessibility of mobile devices. (Thesis) Main arguer	Leonardo Camacho (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014	Undergraduate dissertation. Effects of maturation in the development of attentional networks: an approach from the theory of Posner (Thesis) Main arguer	Macarena Prince Figueroa (Other) Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2014	Undergraduate Dissertation. Time and Music: The influence of musical tempo in temporal perception	Matias Vitureira (Other) Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021 - Current	Cognitive Science
2019 - Current	International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction	Elsevier
2019 - Current	Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems	ACM
2019 - Current	Proceedings International Conference on Human Robot Interaction	ACM/IEEE
2018 - Current	Frontiers in Psychology
2020 - 2021	Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference	ACM

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	Association for Computing Machinery

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2013 - 2017	Member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Basic Research in Psychology, CIBPsi, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022 - Current	International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions - ACHI
2023 - 2023	ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good - GoodIT '23

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018	Part of the working group for the joint construction of a research agenda with the Integrated National System of Care (SNIC) in Uruguay.
2017 - 2018	International consultant expert in the validation of scripts for audiovisual materials within social protection policies aimed to promote parental practices for cognitive development in early childhood. Cognitive Neurology Foundation (Argentina) and the Inter-American Development Bank (BID).

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018	Tangible interaction Workshop.	(Postgraduate Certificate)
2017 - 2017	Contributions of Cognitive Science to the Design of Human-Computer Interaction	(Postgraduate Certificate)
2017 - 2017	Lecturer. Postgraduate course. Contributions of Cognitive Sciences to Education. Interdisciplinary Center on Cognition for Teaching and Learning		Universidad de la Republica Uruguay Espacio Interdisciplinario, Uruguay
2017 - 2017	Undergraduate course. Cognitive processes		Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2016 - 2017	Lecturer. Undergraduate course. Cognitive training in infancy		Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2015 - 2016	Lecturer. Undergraduate course. Perception: from sensors to ideas		Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2015 - 2016	Lecturer. Undergraduate course. Experimental Psychology		Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2014 - 2015	Lecturer. Undergraduate course. Vision and art: basic visual perception		Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2012 - 2013	Lecturer. Undergraduate course. Experimental Psychology Faculty of Psychology, UDELAR, Montevideo, Urugua
2012 - 2013	Lecturer. Undergraduate course. Perception, attention and memory		Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2011 - 2011	Postgraduate course. Quantitative methodology on psychology: Psychophysics		Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Psicologia, Spain

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2018 - 2018	Evaluation. Undergraduate practical research Cognitive and experimental psychology course Evaluator	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2015 - 2015	Digital Training Game of Visuo-Spatial Reasoning, Mathematics and Working Memory: Comparison in two Schools of different Socio-Economic Status	Pauleen Haller
2014 - 2015	Study on top-down and bottom-up processes using eye-tracking methodology	Leiticia Montes
2013 - 2014	Does it affect the place where we live in our aesthetic choice and the way we look at a painting?	Natalia Villalobos
2013 - 2014	Differences in perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion depending on context.	Nicolas del Bono

Distinctions

Award

2020	Best Paper
2018	Special Award for Doctoral Studies Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Other distinction

2020	Travel Grant to strengthen research studies within the "Perception and Interaccion" Research Line Universidad de la República Comisión Sectorial de Investigación, Uruguay
2017	Honourable Mention Award Main Paper Track Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2014	1st prize - Award for research publication Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2014	Investigation internship to research at the Lab for Developmental Studies at University of Harvard, Boston, US
2014	Grant to assist to the 4th Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences James S McDonnell Foundation, United States
2013	Travel Grant for poster presentation at the European Conference on Visual Perception International Brain Research Organization, France
2012	PhD research funded by the Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2011	Investigation internship to research at the Center for Basic Research in Psychology, Uruguay Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2010	Master thesis: Honor CUM LAUDE Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2009	DRAC Research Internship to research at the Human Evolution and Cognition Research Group, EVOCOG, UIB, Spain Joan Lluís Vives Institute , Spain