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Filipa de Sousa Rocha. Concluiu o Mestrado integrado em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores em 2020 e Licenciatura em Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Informática e de Computadores em 2017, ambos pela Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. Frequenta o Doutoramento em Informática pela Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. É professora de tecnologia na Happy Code Portugal. Recebeu 3 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Filipa Gravato de Matos de Sousa Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, Filipa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
101B-98F7-02F4
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8521-7318

Email addresses

  • fgrocha@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2025
Ongoing
 Informática (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Mixed-Visual Ability Collaboration for Children in Computational Thinking" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024/07/09 - 2024/07/11
Concluded
 Summer School: Opportunities and Limitations of Civic Technologies (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/07/11 - 2023/07/13
Concluded
 Summer School: From User-Centred to Community-Led Design (Outros) (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2020/10/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
"Using Robots to Make Computational Thinking Accessible To Children With Visual Impairments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09/09 - 2017/07/31
Concluded
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Campus Taguspark, Portugal
Affiliation

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Happy Code Portugal, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/10/01 - 2025/09/30 Assessing and Designing Computational Thinking Training for Children with Visual Impairments
2021.06589.BD
10.54499/2021.06589.BD
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Ana O Henriques; Patricia Piedade; Filipa Rocha; Isabel Neto; Hugo Nicolau. "Ethical Concerns when Working with Mixed-Ability Groups of Children". 2024.
    10.1145/3663548.3675648
  2. 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
  3. Isabel Neto; Yuhan Hu; Filipa Correia; Filipa Rocha; Guy Hoffman; Hugo Nicolau; Ana Paiva. "Conveying Emotions through Shape-changing to Children with and without Visual Impairment". 2024.
    10.1145/3613904.3642525
  4. Isabel Neto; Yuhan Hu; Filipa Correia; Filipa Rocha; João Nogueira; Katharina Buckmayer; Guy Hoffman; Hugo Nicolau; Ana Paiva. ""I'm Not Touching You. It's The Robot!": Inclusion Through A Touch-Based Robot Among Mixed-Visual Ability Children". 2024.
    10.1145/3610977.3634992
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Isabel Neto; Filipa Correia; Filipa Rocha; Patricia Piedade; Ana Paiva; Hugo Nicolau. "The Robot Made Us Hear Each Other". 2023.
    10.1145/3568162.3576997
  9. Rocha, Filipa; Pires, Ana C.; GUERREIRO, TIAGO; Nicolau, Hugo. "Accembly at Home: Accessible Spatial Programming for Children with Visual Impairments and their Families". Paper presented in ACM Interaction Design and Children, 2021.
    Accepted
  10. 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
  11. Rocha, Filipa. "Exploring Accessible Programming with Educators and Visually Impaired Children". 2020.
    10.1145/3392063.3394437
Conference poster
  1. Cardoso, Gonçalo; Rocha, Filipa; GUERREIRO, TIAGO. "LEGOWorld: Repurposing Commodity Tools & Technologies to Create an Accessible and Customizable Programming Environment". Paper presented in CHI2021, 2021.
Magazine article
  1. 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.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/08 - 2024/10 Student Volunteer at the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2024/10/28 - 2024/10/30)
Conference (Other)
 ACM SIGACCESS, United States
2024/02 - 2024/02 Co-organization and facilitation for DCitizens EU Project Civic Event 2024 (2024/02/27 - 2024/02/27)
Workshop (Other)
 Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/08 - 2023/10 Student Volunteer at the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2023/10/23 - 2023/10/25)
Conference (Other)
 ACM SIGACCESS, United States
2022/08 - 2022/10 Student Volunteer at the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2022/10/23 - 2022/10/26)
Conference (Other)
 ACM SIGACCESS, United States
2021/08 - 2021/10 Student Volunteer at the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2021/10/18 - 2021/10/22)
Conference (Other)
 ACM SIGACCESS, United States

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/11 - 2024/12 PhD Student Commission
President / Vice-president
 LASIGE Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/11 - Current IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
2024/02 - Current ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
2022/10 - Current ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
2022/05 - Current ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)
2022/02 - Current ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02 - Current Human-Computer Interaction Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/09 - 2023/11 User-Centered Design and Evaluation Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/09 - 2022/11 Information Visualization Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/11 Interaction Design Studio Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 Young Inventors Award
Europäisches Patentamt, Germany
2023 Born From Knowledge Ideas - Digital Transition
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Other distinction

2022 Huawei Academic Excellence Award
Huawei Enterprise Technologies SL, Spain