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Teresa Almeida works in the area(s) of Computer Science and the Humanities with an emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Design Research, and Qualitative Research Methods .
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Teresa Alexandra de Almeida Joaquim

Citation names

  • Almeida, Teresa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0F12-FACE-E4F9
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7393-3379
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=S8k3_RAAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • teresa.almeida@umu.se (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
  • Humanities - Arts
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/09 - 2017/07
Concluded
 Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Human-Computer Interaction
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
"Designing Technologies for Intimate Care in Women" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003 - 2005
Concluded
 Interactive Telecommunications Program (Master)
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, United States
1995 - 1998
Concluded
 Teatro, opção de Design de Cena (Bacharelato)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - 2020/08/31 Postdoc (Research) IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2018/01/01 - 2019/01/31 Postdoc (Research) KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/01 - Current Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/09/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Umeå Universitet, Sweden
Umeå universitet Institutionen för Informatik, Sweden
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30 CyFer: Cybersecurity and Privacy in Fertility Technologies
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Academic Partner
Newcastle University School of Computing, United Kingdom
 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Almeida, Teresa; Tomasello, Giulia. "Empowerment and Self-Care". In Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications, edited by Katherine Townsend; Rhian Solomon; Amanda Briggs-Goode. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
    In press
Conference paper
  1. Filipa Correia; Isabel Neto; Margarida Fortes-Ferreira; Doenja Oogjes; Teresa Almeida. "More-than-human Perspective on the Robomorphism Paradigm". 2024.
    10.1145/3610978.3640761
  2. Maryam Mehrnezhad; Teresa Almeida. ""“My sex-related data is more sensitive than my financial data and I want the same level of security and privacy\": User Risk Perceptions and Protective Actions in Female-oriented Technologies"". 2023.
    10.1145/3617072.3617100
  3. Mehrnezhad, M.; Shipp, L.; Almeida, T.; Toreini, E.. "Vision: Too Little too Late? Do the Risks of FemTech already Outweigh the Benefits?". 2022.
    10.1145/3549015.3554204
  4. Almeida, T.; Shipp, L.; Mehrnezhad, M.; Toreini, E.. "Bodies Like Yours: Enquiring Data Privacy in FemTech". 2022.
    10.1145/3547522.3547674
  5. Gerd Geleff Nielsen; Teresa Almeida. "Designing with the Immune System". 2021.
    10.1145/3483529.3483726
  6. Mehrnezhad, M.; Almeida, T.. "Caring for intimate data in fertility technologies". 2021.
    10.1145/3411764.3445132
  7. Svenningsen, I.K.; Almeida, T.. "Embodying the Emotional Pregnancy: Design Explorations of a Prenatal Yoga Multi-Sensorial Environment". 2020.
    10.1145/3441000.3441044
  8. Jenkins, T.; Boer, L.; Homewood, S.; Almeida, T.; Vallgårda, A.. "Designing with Emerging Science: Developing an Alternative Frame for Self-Tracking". 2020.
    10.1145/3441000.3441020
  9. Svenningsen, I.K.; Almeida, T.. "Designing for the emotional pregnancy". 2020.
    10.1145/3393914.3395897
  10. Boer, L.; Bewley, H.; Jenkins, T.; Homewood, S.; Almeida, T.; Vallgårda, A.. "Gut-Tracking as cultivation". 2020.
    10.1145/3357236.3395588
  11. Almeida, Teresa; Chen, Ko-Le; Comber, Robert; Balaam, Madeline. "Dismantling Feminist Biology through the Design of eTextiles". Paper presented in Research Through Design, Delft, 2019.
    Published
  12. Jarusriboonchai, Pradthana; Meissner, Janiss Jena; Almeida, Teresa; Balaam, Madeline. "Understanding Children's Free Play in Primary Schools". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2019), Vienna, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3328320.3328384
  13. Jenkins, Tom; Vallgårda, Anna; Boer, Laurens; Homewood, Sarah; Almeida, Teresa. "Careful Devices". 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3363384.3363474
  14. Almeida, Teresa. "New Materiality in Intimate Care". Paper presented in Textile Intersections International Conference, London, 2019.
    Published
  15. Teresa Almeida. "New Materiality in Intimate Care". 2019.
    10.17028/rd.lboro.9724634.v1
  16. Almeida, Teresa; Juul Søndergaard, Marie-Louise; Homewood, Sarah; Morrissey, Kellie; Balaam, Madeline. "Woman-Centred Design". 2018.
    10.21606/dma.2018.795
  17. Ahmed, A.A.; Almeida, T.; Choi, J.O.; Pincus, J.; Ireland, K.. "What’s at issue: Sex, stigma, and politics in ACM publishing". 2018.
    10.1145/3170427.3188400
  18. Balaam, M.; Hansen, L.K.; D'Ignazio, C.; Simpson, E.; Almeida, T.; Kuznetsov, S.; Catt, M.; Søndergaard, M.L.J.. "Hacking women's health". Paper presented in (CHI) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, 2017.
    Published • 10.1145/3027063.3027085
  19. Chen, K.-L.; Clarke, R.; Almeida, T.; Wood, M.; Kirk, D.S.. "Situated dissemination through an HCI workplace". 2017.
    10.1145/3025453.3025696
  20. Almeida, T.; Comber, R.; Wood, G.; Saraf, D.; Balaam, M.. "On looking at the vagina through Labella". 2016.
    10.1145/2858036.2858119
  21. Almeida, T.; Wood, G.; Comber, R.; Balaam, M.. "Interactivity: Looking at the vagina through Labella". 2016.
    10.1145/2851581.2890261
  22. Almeida, T.; Comber, R.; Balaam, M.. "HCI and intimate care as an agenda for change in women's health". 2016.
    10.1145/2858036.2858187
  23. Almeida, T.. "Designing intimate wearables to promote preventative health care practices". 2015.
    10.1145/2800835.2809440
  24. Almeida, T.; Comber, R.; Olivier, P.; Balaam, M.. "Intimate care: Exploring eTextiles for teaching female pelvic fitness". 2014.
    10.1145/2598784.2602768
  25. Teresa Almeida. "Subjective Epistemologies: Inconsistent Artefacts in the Redesign of Medical Devices". 2014.
  26. Almeida, Teresa. "Urban empathy: Work in progress". 2008.
Conference poster
  1. Almeida, Teresa. "The Bitness Project". Paper presented in World Congress on Women's Health Innovations and Inventions (WHII), 2019.
  2. Almeida, Teresa. "Designing intimate wearables for breast self-awareness". Paper presented in World Congress on Women's Health Innovations and Inventions (WHII), 2019.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Almeida, Teresa. Osebno Personal tvegajspremembo riskchange 2018 knjiga book 3. ACE Kibla, 2019.
  2. Almeida, Teresa; Michelle Millar Fisher; Jimena Acosta Romero. I Will What I Want: Women, Design, and Empowerment. Toronja Ediciones, Editorial Gustavo Gili SL, Mexico, 2018.
  3. Almeida, Teresa. ENTER5, DATAPOLIS: Catalogue of the 5th international art | science | technology Biennale. CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies, 2011.
  4. Almeida, Teresa. FuturoTextiel 08 Surprising Textiles, Design + Art. Cl. Stiching KUNSTBOEK, 2008.
  5. Almeida, Teresa. Extra-Sensory: mode & nouvelles technologies. Filigranes Éditions and Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, 2006.
Journal article
  1. Mavroudi, A.; Almeida, T.; Frennert, S.; Laaksolahti, J.; Viberg, O.. "A card game for designing activities for technology-enhanced learning in higher education". Education and Information Technologies 27 2 (2022): 2367-2383. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85113158315&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10639-021-10668-z
  2. Teresa Almeida. "(e)Textile New Materialities". Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice 9 1 (2021): 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2021.1899474.
    10.1080/20511787.2021.1899474
  3. Teresa Almeida; Madeline Balaam; Rob Comber. "Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 27 4 (2020): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3397176.
    10.1145/3397176
  4. Almeida, T.; Balaam, M.; Bardzell, S.; Hansen, L.K.. "Introduction to the special issue on HCI and the body: Reimagining women's health". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 27 4 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85092518755&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/3406091
  5. Heinzel, T.; Munthe, H.; Almeida, T.; Andor, C.; Badut, A.; Baker, C.; Biro, A.; et al. "Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors. Notes on an exhibition of failed prototypes and rejected projects.". Design Journal 22 sup1 (2019): 1941-1956. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85067207600&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/14606925.2019.1594951

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Design Research for Change [DR4C]. 2019.
  2. PERSONAL, International Interdisciplinary Exhibition. 2018.
  3. I Will What I Want: Women, Design, and Empowerment. 2017.
  4. Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors. 2017.
  5. Interactions Gallery (Labella). 2015.
  6. Betagrams (Pelvics). 2014.
  7. e-textiles: Attaya Projects Showcase. 2013.
  8. ENTER5, DATAPOLIS: 5th international art | science | technology Biennale. 2011.
  9. Powered by Ljudmila: Retrospective exhibition ‘10 years of Ljudmila’. 2011.
  10. Caroline David (Curator). Futurotextiel 08: surprising textile, art & design. 2008.
  11. Susan E. Ryan (Curator); Patrick Lichty (Curator). Social Fabrics: Art + Media + Interconnectivity. 2008.
  12. 13th International Festival of Computer Arts. 2007.
  13. Seamless v.2: Computational Couture. 2006.
  14. Extra-Sensory: Mode & Nouvelles Technologies. 2006.

Other

Other output
  1. Re-Visioning the Interface: Technological Fashion as Critical Media. Design research work is featured in journal Leonardo, Vol. 42, No. 4. , Pp. 307-313.. 2009. Ryan, Susan E.. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/270362/summary.
  2. Inhabiting the Body and the Spaces of Interaction. Design research work is featured in AD/Architectural Design, Special Issue: Protoarchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids. Volume 78, Issue 4. Wiley & Sons Inc, UK.. 2008. Croci, Valentina. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15542769/78/4.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/10/03 Ações Dialogantes EnIAD – Art and Design Research Meeting
FBAUL, Faculty of Arts University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06 In dialogue with our bodies: becoming embodied knowers Thursdays with Science
Fraunhofer AICOS (Porto, Portugal)
2018/03 Designing with (e)Textiles for Women's Health Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors
National University of the Arts (Bucharest, Romania)
2018/03 Designing for Women: Situated Knowledge, Intimate Health and Everyday Life 2do Encuentro Internacional: Experiencias Investigativas en Arquitectura y Diseño – 8vas. Jornadas del Vestir y la Moda
Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (Medellín, Colombia)
2018/02 Designing for Women's Health and Wellbeing
Northeastern University, Department of Art + Design (Boston, MA, United States)
2018/01 Designing Technologies for Intimate Care in Women Interdisciplinary Meeting: I Will What I Want
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, MUCA-Roma (Mexico City, Mexico)
2018 Critical Wearables Design Informatics Research Seminar Series
Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2017/10 Conheço o meu corpo? Summit Liderança Feminina
Womenise.it (Praia, Cape Verde)
2015/06 Acerca del trabajo wearable y proyectos Vestibles: Encuentro Internacional de Vestuario, Cultura & Tecnologías
Vestibles (Santiago, Chile)
2015 Uncomfortable and Embarrassing Interactions: Humour & Interaction Design Lecture, CSC3722 Advanced Interaction Design
Newcastle University (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
2014 Wearable Technology Lecture, M.A. Creative Arts Practice
Newcastle University (Culture Lab) (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
2014 Latest work Invited Talk Series
Hackerspace Singapore (Singapore, Singapore)
2009 Wearable Technology Art: mobility, communication, and the body as interface AIA | Arts, Ideas, Academia
CPAI (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009 Latest work Almost Perfect Open Studios
Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Centre (Banff, Canada)
2009 Body Talk
Eden Lounge (Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2018/09/26 Glitching the fabric: strategies of new media art applied to the codes of knitting and weaving
(Thesis) Arguer
 David N.G. McCallum (PhD)
Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden

Akademin Valand, Sweden

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Board Member
Member
 Recoil , Denmark
2015 - 2015 Member of the Program Committee: ASGA4Health Atelier of Smart Garments and Accessories for Healthy Lifestyles Workshop
Member
2014 - 2014 Member of the Program Committee: ASGA Atelier of Smart Garments and Accessories Workshop at Ubicomp/ISWC
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020 - 2020 CHI'20: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM
2019 - 2019 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (ozCHI'19)
2018 - 2018 30th Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (ozCHI'18)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Textile Hacking (workshop Instructor). Young Creators ’16. FabLab Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Intro to Soft Circuits & Wearables (workshop Instructor). Future Makers Demo, Education and Outreach Tyne & Wear Museums Staff. Discovery Museum, United Kingdom
2014 - 2014 Summer Schools Program (Workshop Instructor) Skills to Shine, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/09 - 2020/01 Technical Interaction Design Technical Interaction Design (Master) IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2019/08 - 2019/12 Cross Disciplinary Teamwork (CrossDit) Cross-Disciplinary Courses (Master) IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 - 2018 Advanced Project course Interactive Media Technology and Media Management (Master) KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2018 - 2018 Program Integrating Course Interactive Media Technology (Master) KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2017/10/22 Teresa Almeida, Designer de Interacção: Cosendo circuitos que quebram tabus Expresso das Ilhas (Print Edition, nº 834. )
2017/10/16 Summit Liderança Feminina: Oradora Teresa Almeida quer quebrar tabus em torno do corpo da mulher Sapo CV
2017/03/27 Designers Are Hacking Women’s Health with Wearable Tech Racked
2016/09/04 As mulheres ainda têm vergonha de dizer vagina Activa
2016/05/20 Portuguesa cria app para mulheres conhecerem as suas próprias vaginas Visão
2011 The Art of Hybridity LASALLE Review 2010/Staff Room Chat
Distinctions

Award

2016 Best Paper CHI'16
Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2016 Honorable Mention CHI'16
Association for Computing Machinery, United States
2015 Student Design Competition Award, 2nd place Jury’s Award
2009 Residency Scholarship (Locative Media)
The Banff Centre (Banff New Media Institute), Canada
2006 Media Arts Residency Award
European Pépinières for Young Artists , France

Other distinction

2016 Empower Women
UN Women, United States
2016 Nomination, Innovative Applications Award (Labella)
O2 NextGen Digital Challenge Awards 2016, United Kingdom