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Emanuel Sousa (MSc, PhD) is a Senior Researcher and the head of the department for Human-Technology Interaction and Robotics at the CCG Institute in Portugal. He earned an MSc in Electronics and Computers in 2008 and a PhD in Robotics in 2015, both from the University of Minho in Portugal. At CCG, he has participated in several research projects, funded both nationally and internationally, focusing on human-machine interaction. His research interests encompass various topics, including Cognitive Robotics, Virtual Reality-based simulation, Human factors in road transportation, and human-vehicle interaction. Currently, he serves as a co-PI in a project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Additionally, he has co-supervised 2 PhD theses and is currently supervising a third. He has also co-supervised 3 MSc dissertations and is supervising 2 more. He is a member of Working Group 8 - TICS on-board-MMI at the ISO TC22 SC39 - Ergonomics in Road Vehicles committee.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
EMANUEL AUGUSTO FREITAS DE SOUSA

Citation names

  • Sousa, Emanuel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
541A-63B9-8C8D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5128-5753
Scopus Author Id
36840435600

Email addresses

  • emanuel.sousa@ccg.pt (Professional)
  • esousa@dei.uminho.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control
  • Engineering and Technology

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
2015/04/10
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrónica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Robótica Cognitiva
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"On Learning and Generalizing Representations in a Dynamic Field Based Architecture for Human-Robot Interaction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002 - 2008
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrónica Industrial e Computadores (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Robótica e Automação
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
"Learning in a Dynamic Field based architecture for Human-Robot Interaction: A Hebbian Perspective" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/04/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31 Pos-doc research assistent Project INNOVCAR: Inovation for Smart Vehicles, cofunded by FEDER through Portugal 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (COMPETE 2020) Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2015/07/01 - 2015/09/30 Research grant funded by Project INNOVCAR: Inovation for Smart Vehicles, cofunded by FEDER through Portugal 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (COMPETE 2020) Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2015/04/01 - 2015/06/30 Research grant funded by project: HMI-EXCEL-BOSCH - I&D crítica em torno do ciclo de desenvolvimento e produção de soluções multimédia avançadas para automóvel, cofinanciado pelo FEDER e Programa Oper Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2009/01/01 - 2012/12/31 PhD grant funded by FCT (refª SFRH / BD / 48529 / 2008) Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/04/01 - 2015/06/30 HMIExcel - I&D crítica em torno do ciclo de desenvolvimento e produção de soluções multimédia avançadas para automóvel
036265, HMIEXCEL – SI&IDT Projectos em Co-promoção - Especiais
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2014/06/30 Turn-Taking in Human-Robot Interactions: a Developmental Robotics Approach
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME/301155/EU
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2013/01 - 2013/12 Visual Object Recognition and Children's Self-Generated Object Views: Developmental Changes in Active Viewing
PTDC/PSI-PCO/121494/2010
PTDC/PSI-PCO/121494/2010
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - Current PRODUTECH R3
C645808870-00000067
Researcher
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
 Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2020/07/01 - Current PAC - Portugal AutoCluster for the Future
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046095
Researcher
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2018/12/01 - Current 5G-MOBIX - 5G for cooperative & connected automated MOBIility on X-border corridors
825496
Researcher
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
 European Union
Ongoing
2018/06/01 - Current Prototyping medical AcousTic Environments for the deSign of New auditory warning Signals
31943
Researcher
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2023/03/05 - 2026/03/04 IMProving users’ s sAfety perCepTion of shared streets: Auditory, visual and geometry-based strategies
2022.06271.PTDC
10.54499/2022.06271.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2021/12/31 Product in Touch – Development and Industrial Validation of a Multimodal Virtual Prototyping for In-Car
POCI-FEDER-033699
Researcher
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2021/12/31 Easy Ride - Experience is everything
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039334
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2017/10/01 - 2020/12/31 CHIC - Cooperative Holistic view on Internet and Content
24498
Researcher
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31 INNOVCAR-SI&DT - I&D Inovation for smart vehicles co-funded by FEDER through COMPETE2020.
002797
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Concluded
2015/07/01 - 2015/09/30 INNOVCAR-SI&DT - I&D Inovation for smart vehicles co-funded by FEDER through COMPETE2020.
002797
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Varela, M.L.R.; Amaral, G.; Pereira, S.; Machado, D.; Falcão, A.; Ribeiro, R.; Sousa, E.; Santos, J.; Pereira, A.F.. Interoperable decision support system based on multivariate time series for setup data processing and visualization. 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-49342-4_53
Book chapter
  1. Alexandre Carrança; Nuno Sousa; José Rocha; Eduardo Santos; Luis Evangelista; António Ferreira; Telmo Adão; Emanuel Sousa; Iara Margolis. "Augmented Reality Towards Industry 5.0: Improving Voice and Tap Interaction Based on User Experience Feedback". 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6303-4_13
  2. Iara Margolis; Alexandre Carrança; Nuno Sousa; José Rocha; Eduardo Santos; Luis Evangelista; António Ferreira; Telmo Adão; Emanuel Sousa. "UX and Industry 5.0: A Study in Repairing Equipment Using Augmented Reality". 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6303-4_12
  3. Freitas, Elisabete F.; Sousa, Emanuel A.; Silva, Carlos C.. "Transport Noise and Health". In International Encyclopedia of Transportation, 311-319. Elsevier, 2021.
    10.1016/b978-0-08-102671-7.10731-6
  4. Inês Fortes; Diana Pinto; Emanuel Sousa; Vera Vilas-Boas; Rui José. "Enhancing the Motorcycling Experience with Social Applications: A Study of User Needs". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-72657-7_31
  5. Mackay, Ana; Fortes, Inês; Santos, Catarina; Machado, Dário; Barbosa, Patrícia; Boas, Vera Vilas; Ferreira, João Pedro; et al. "The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles Active Feedback on Trust". In Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors, 342-352. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_32
  6. Cunha, Ana; Ferreira, Flora; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Sousa, Emanuel; Louro, Luís; Vicente, Paulo; Monteiro, Sérgio; Bicho, Estela. "Towards Endowing Collaborative Robots with Fast Learning for Minimizing Tutors’ Demonstrations: What and When to Do?". In Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, 368-378. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-35990-4_30
Conference paper
  1. Ribeiro, Nuno; Louro, Luís; Vicente, Paulo; Ribeiro, Pedro; Rodrigues, Daniel; Dias, Pedro; Sousa, Emanuel; Monteiro, Sérgio; Bicho, Estela. "RAMBO — Robotic Anthropomorphic Manipulator for Bimanual Operations". 2024.
    10.1109/icarsc61747.2024.10535933
  2. José C. Campos; Cunha, Alcino; Nuno Macedo; Iara Margolis Ribeiro; Sousa, Emanuel. "Assessing the impact of hints in learning formal specification". Paper presented in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (SEET track), 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Silva, Emanuel; Margolis, Iara; Nunes, Miguel; Sousa, Nuno; Nunes, Eduardo; Sousa, Emanuel. "Analysis of the User Experience (UX) of Design Interactions for a Job-Related VR Application". Paper presented in 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - HUCAPP, 2023.
    Published • 10.5220/0011657800003417
  4. Nunes, Miguel; Silva, Emanuel; Sousa, Nuno; Sousa, Emanuel; Nunes, Eduardo; Margolis, Iara. "VR Virtual Prototyping Application for Airplane Cockpit: A Human-centred Design Validation". Paper presented in 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - HUCAPP, 2023.
    Published • 10.5220/0011658800003417
  5. Soares, F.; Pereira, F.; Silva, E.; Silva, C.; Sousa, E.; Freitas, E.. "Implementing auralized CPB sounds on a pedestrian simulator". 2021.
    10.3397/IN2021-2304
  6. Sousa, E.; Sousa, N.; Sampaio, R.; Vieira, J.; Pires, M.; Aguiam, D.; Ainla, A.; et al. "Enhanced virtual reality application with tactile feedback for prototyping in-car dashboard surfaces". 2021.
    10.1109/WHC49131.2021.9517204
  7. Soares, Francisco; Silva, Emanuel; Pereira, Frederico; Silva, Carlos; Sousa, Emanuel; Freitas, Elisabete. "Efeito do ruído de tráfego na decisão de atravessamento dos peões". Paper presented in XI Congresso Ibérico de Acústica, 2020.
    Published
  8. Cunha, A.; Ferreira, F.; Sousa, E.; Louro, L.; Vicente, P.; Monteiro, S.; Erlhagen, W.; Bicho, E.. "Towards collaborative robots as intelligent co-workers in human-robot joint tasks: What to do and who does it?". 2020.
  9. Silva, Mariana; Sousa, Emanuel; Fonseca, Pedro; Pinheiro, Ana; Silva, Claudia; Correia, Miguel; Mouta, Sandra. "Analysis and Quantification of Upper-Limb Movement in Motor Rehabilitation After Stroke". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_37
  10. Sousa, Emanuel; Malheiro, Tiago; Bicho, Estela; Erlhagen, Wolfram; Santos, Jorge; Pereira, Alfredo. "MUVTIME: A Multivariate Time Series Visualizer for Behavioral Science". Rome, 2016.
    10.5220/0005725301650176
  11. Sousa, Emanuel. "ON OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING OF HIERARCHIES IN SEQUENTIAL TASKS: A DYNAMIC NEURAL FIELD MODEL". 2014.
    10.1142/9789814458849_0015
  12. Ferreira, F.; Erlhagen, W.; Sousa, E.; Louro, L.; Bicho, E.. "Learning a musical sequence by observation: A robotics implementation of a dynamic neural field model". 2014.
    10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6982973
  13. Grzyb, B.J.; Cattani, A.; Cangelosi, A.; Floccia, C.; Yoshida, H.; Burling, J.; Borghi, A.M.; et al. "Special session: Dynamic interactions between visual experiences, actions and word learning". 2014.
    10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6982944
  14. Bicho, E.; Erlhagen, W.; Sousa, E.; Louro, L.; Hipolito, N.; Silva, E.C.; Silva, R.; et al. "The power of prediction: Robots that read intentions". 2012.
    10.1109/IROS.2012.6386297
Journal article
  1. Leidy Marcela Barón Acela; Emanuel Sousa; Susana Faria; Raul Almeida; Elisabete Fraga Freitas. "Pedestrian crossing behavior in social groups: Exploring cultural contexts through a comparative study". Case Studies on Transport Policy (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2024.101333.
    10.1016/j.cstp.2024.101333
  2. Francisco Soares; Frederico Pereira; Susana Faria; Emanuel Sousa; Raul Almeida; Elisabete F. Freitas. "Pedestrian Behavior in Static and Dynamic Virtual Road Crossing Experiments". Applied System Innovation (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/asi7050094.
    10.3390/asi7050094
  3. Raul Almeida; Emanuel Sousa; Dário Machado; Frederico Pereira; Susana Faria; Elisabete Freitas. "Analysis of the Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Vehicles Equipped with External Human–Machine Interfaces: The Effect of an Experimental Reward Mechanism on Pedestrian Crossing Behavior in a Virtual Environment". Sustainability (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083236.
    10.3390/su16083236
  4. Pereira, Eduarda; Macedo, Helena; Lisboa, Isabel C.; Sousa, Emanuel; Machado, Dário; Silva, Emanuel; Coelho, Vitor; Arezes, Pedro; Costa, Nélson. "Motion Sickness Countermeasures for Autonomous Driving: Trends and Future Directions". Transportation Engineering (2023): 100220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.treng.2023.100220.
    10.1016/j.treng.2023.100220
  5. Leidy Barón; Susana Faria; Emanuel Sousa; Elisabete Freitas. "Analysis of Pedestrians’ Road Crossing Behavior, in Social Groups". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2023): https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231180206.
    10.1177/03611981231180206
  6. Konstantinos V. Katsaros; Angelos J. Amditis; Konstantinos Trichias; Oyunchimeg Shagdar; Ahmed Soua; Jose Costa Requena; José Santa; et al. "Connected and Automated Mobility Services in 5G Cross-Border Environments: Challenges and Prospects". IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2023): https://doi.org/10.1109/MITS.2023.3237271.
    10.1109/MITS.2023.3237271
  7. Almeida, Raul; Sousa, Emanuel; Machado, Dário; Freitas, E.F.. "Interaction between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles: Protocol analysis and preliminary results". Transportation Research Procedia 72 (2023): 3268-3275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.861.
    10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.861
  8. Emanuel Sousa; Rosane Sampaio; Edoardo Sotgiu; Gabriel Ribeiro; Carlos Silva; Joana Vieira. "Tactile and visual perception of plastic textures for car interiors: Psychophysical and affective dimensions". International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2022.103369.
    10.1016/j.ergon.2022.103369
  9. Pereira, Frederico; Soares, Francisco; Silva, Carlos; Sousa, Emanuel; Freitas, Elisabete. "CPX based synthesis for binaural auralization of vehicle rolling noise to an arbitrary positioned stander-by receiver". Applied Acoustics 182 (2021): 108211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108211.
    10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108211
  10. Soares, F.; Silva, E.; Pereira, F.; Silva, C.; Sousa, E.; Freitas, E.. "To cross or not to cross: Impact of visual and auditory cues on pedestrians’ crossing decision-making". Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 82 (2021): 202-220. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85114169253&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.trf.2021.08.014
  11. Soares, Francisco; Silva, Emanuel; Pereira, Frederico; Silva, Carlos; Sousa, Emanuel; Freitas, Elisabete. "The Influence of Noise Emitted by Vehicles on Pedestrian Crossing Decision-Making: A Study in a Virtual Environment". Applied Sciences 10 8 (2020): 2913. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10082913.
    10.3390/app10082913
  12. Soares, F.; Silva, E.; Pereira, F.; Silva, C.; Sousa, E.; Freitas, E.. "The influence of noise emitted by vehicles on pedestrian crossing decision-making: A study in a virtual environment". Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 10 8 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85084658489&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/APP10082913
  13. Ferreira, F.; Wojtak, W.; Sousa, E.; Louro, L.; Bicho, E.; Erlhagen, W.. "Rapid learning of complex sequences with time constraints: A dynamic neural field model". IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85085089901&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TCDS.2020.2991789
  14. Varela, L.; Amaral, G.; Pereira, S.; Machado, D.; Falcão, A.; Ribeiro, R.A.; Sousa, E.; et al. "Decision support visualization approach in textile manufacturing a case study from operational control in textile industry". International Journal for Quality Research 13 4 (2019): 987-1004. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85080139257&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.24874/IJQR13.04-16
  15. Coelho, C.M.; Silva, J.; Pereira, A.F.; Sousa, E.; Taephant, N.; Pisitsungkagarn, K.; Santos, J.A.. "Visual-vestibular and postural analysis of motion sickness, panic, and Acrophobia". Acta Neuropsychologica 15 1 (2017): 21-33. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019957623&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.5604/12321966.1237325
  16. Sousa, E.; Erlhagen, W.; Ferreira, F.; Bicho, E.. "Off-line simulation inspires insight: A neurodynamics approach to efficient robot task learning". Neural Networks 72 (2015): 123-139. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84949293023&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.002
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/04 The role of visual and auditory cues in pedestrians’ crossing decision making InterACT workshop in conjunction with the ISO/TC 22/SC 39 Spring meeting
International Organization for Standardization
2017/04/09 "Robots as Socially Intelligent Assistants" 8th Symposium on Bioengineering
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2012/07/13 A Dynamic Neural Field Model for Learning Sequential Tasks by Observation 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
(San Sebastian, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/01/25 - Current Autonomous Driving: Human-Like Trajectory Control
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/01 - Current Human-Robot interaction through Mixed Reality
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020/02/01 - Current Modelling pedestrian-autonomous vehicle interaction risk in a simulated environment
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
2018/10/01 - Current Integrating social interaction on the modelling of pedestrian movement in Urban Environment
Co-supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Civil (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 - 2022/04/21 Risk factors affecting pedestrian behaviour: risk assessment in a virtual environment
Co-supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Civil (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/02 Development of autonomous driving solutions based on non-linear dynamic systems
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/01 - 2020/01 Effective learning of sequencial tasks for collaborative robots: a neurodynamic approach
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2020/09 Poster presentation: Sousa, E., Sampaio, R., Vieira, J., Garcia, E., & Silva, C. “Applying acceptability models to CCAM Use-Cases in cross-border contexts: The 5GMOBIX approach”
Meeting
 L3 Pilot SummerSchool 2020
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/10 Poster presentation: Sousa, E., Mackay, A., Machado, D., Ferreira, J. P., Lamas, J. “Studying driving styles on a driving simulator: The case of overtaking on highways”
Conference
 the Annual Meeting of the European Chapter of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2020/12 A Collaborative Work-Cell to Improve Worker Ergonomics and Productivity
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Gaspar Oliveira Cunha (Master)
2020/12 Dynamic neural system for endowing intelligent cars with the ability to learn their occupants' routines
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Paulo Jorge da Silva Barbosa (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/07/27 A model for the development of neural representations: from human observation to robotics
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Paulo Sérgio Cunha Vicente (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/09 - Current Evaluation of thesis plan: Tensor-based EEG Classifier Using Conditional Transfer Learning (TBcTL) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/01 - Current Evaluation of thesis plan: Learning and Inference for Collaborative Human-Robot Manipulation Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/11 - Current Evaluation of thesis plan: Human Aware Driver Assistance Systems: Adaptation, Learning and Decision Making Universidade do Minho, Portugal