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I hold a PhD in Psychology from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). Currently, I am PostDoctoral Research Fellow at ITI-LARSyS (Portugal) and Co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the “Interaction and Perception” Research Line at the Center for Basic Research in Psychology (Uruguay). My research work in educational technology has a multidisciplinary focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive and Social Psychology, and Learning Sciences 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 four international research projects, we developed educational and accessible technology with multisensory and tangible elements, 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 Peer-review
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
2023 - 2025
Ongoing
 e-Games (Pós-doutoramento)
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2023
Concluded
 Spatial Data Science Services for COVID-19 Pandemic (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
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
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
2023/01/01 - 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
2023/01/18 - 2023/09/30 Spatial Data Science Services for COVID-19 Pandemic
DSAIPA/DS/0115/2020
Post-doc Fellow
Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Maiche, A.; Pires, Ana C.; Chanes, L.; Vazquez, A.; Gonzalez, F.. "¿Cómo percibimos el mundo?". In Psicobiologia. Spain, 2018.
  5. Alejandro Maiche; Gonzalez, H.; Pires, Ana C.. "Percepción". In Manual de Psicología Cognitiva. 2014.
  6. Pires, Ana C.; Vasquez, A; Carboni, A.; Maiche, A.. "Percepción Visual". In Neurociencia Cognitiva. Diego Redolar (ed).. Editora medica Panamericana. Buenos Aires., 2012.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Simão, Hugo; Pires, Ana; Gonçalves, David; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Carrier-pigeon Robot". Paper presented in Human Robot Interaction, 2020.
    10.1145/3371382.3378361
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Pires, Ana C.; Alejandro Maiche. "Motion spatially facilitates the detection of static objects.". Paper presented in European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany, 2013.
  12. Pires, Ana C.; Alejandro Maiche. "Temporal perception is distorted by previous motion.". Paper presented in International Conference on Time Perspective. Coimbra, Portugal, 2012.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. 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
2023 - Current Crafting Inclusive Experiences: A Framework for Multisensory Digital Storytelling Tangibles
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - Current Socio-technical infrastructuring of civic data for/with NGOs
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - Current Refugees Sponsorship Program: Community Building Towards Social Action with technology
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - Current Exploring Artificial Intelligence into Outdoor Play Experiences for Young Children
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - Current Personality Archetypes and Their Impact on the Video Game's Narrative
Co-supervisor
Universidade da Beira Interior, 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