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Ana Ferreira is an Information Security and Interaction Design specialist, teacher and researcher at RISE-Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal. She is the PI of DRAPE-Designing Privacy and Trust into Research, an FCT funded project (2022.00381.CEECIND), aiming to design an online coaching platform to help researchers and their projects to stay compliant with GDPR. She has successfully lead, as PI, two more FCT funded projects: AnyMApp (EXPL/CCI-COM/0052/2021), where a platform to test online anonymous mockups was built and TagUBig (IF/00693/2015), where a model to assess every interaction for adaptive risk-based access control decisions was developed and tested. Ana is currently a member of ENISA's (European Agency for Cybersecurity) Advisory Group, frequently participates as a Cybersecurity Expert Evaluator of European research projects, since 2017, and is currently a member of the COST Action CA22104 (WG1 and WG4). Ana has successfully participated as a researcher in 16 internationally and nationally funded projects and is the author of more than 120 scientific publications (57 - 48% publications as the first author) with more than 1000 citations, 106 (88%) of which are indexed in Thomson Reuters and/or Scopus databases, with an ISI h-index of 10 and a SCOPUS h-index of 15. Ana has a Post-doc from the University of Luxembourg at SnT, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, since 2015, a joint supervision PhD in Computer Science from the Universities of Porto (Faculty of Science) and Kent, UK, since 2010, detains also an MSc in Information Security, with Distinction, from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, since 2002 and a Specialization in Interaction Design, Web and Games from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2022). She is currently responsible for 1 curricular unit of the Health Data Science (HEADS) Doctoral Program, 1 curricular unit of the Master in Medical Informatics, and 1 of the 6 modules of the specialization course in Health Technologies Design, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto. She is an invited lecturer at ISPGAYA, Portugal, to teach Applied Cryptography at the Master in Cybersecurity and Auditing of Information Systems and she frequently teaches various medical informatics subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Medicine course, at the University of Porto, where she has created the module of information security for healthcare systems, together with the corresponding materials, which is being taught there since 2003. She obtained 8 scholarships to support her academic education (5 for the PhD, 1 for the Post-doc and 2 for participation in USA conferences), 1 distinction, 1 Portuguese Government Praise and 15 prizes, six of which are best papers or best poster awards. Ana features in the book "Hacking Gender Barriers: Europe's Top Cyber Women", 2022, was selected as the Top 20 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber in 2022 and won the Cybersecurity Woman of the Year Awards 2022, in the category Barrier Breaker. Ana is also the co-founder of Women4Cyber Portugal where she is the Research and Innovation Team Lead and regularly participates as a mentor for the European Women4Cyber Foundation Mentoring Program. Moreover, Ana has two international certifications: CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional, since 2004, and HCISPP Healthcare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner, since 2018 and has several multidisciplinary research interests as shown by her research track record, with scientific advancements in the areas of socio-technical security, security usability, interaction design, risk assessment, visual security, access control, mHealth and digital health, legislation compliance, and their connection with social sciences, psychology or ambient assisted living, which can promote creative and innovative solutions, closer to users needs and in their real settings.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Margarida Leite de Almeida Ferreira

Citation names

  • Ferreira A

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
641E-4F2A-121D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0953-9411

Email addresses

  • amlaf@med.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Computer Hardware and Architecture
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology
  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/11/21 - 2023/11/21
Concluded
Active Learning em Educação Médica a Distância: Conceitos e Prática (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Não aplicável
2021/10/01 - 2022/06/29
Ongoing
Interaction Design, web and Games (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Interaction Design
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

UPTEC Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia da Asprela, Portugal
2020/07/06 - 2020/07/07
Concluded
EUGLOH: Summer School Biomedical Data Processing and Global Aspects of COVID-19 (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in Biomedical data processing
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018
Concluded
Advanced School on Data Science for Big Data (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018
Concluded
Porto Winter School on Network Science (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017
Concluded
HCISPP - HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in Segurança
International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium - (ISC)2, Portugal
2017
Concluded
UX Foundations Workshop (Outros)
EDIT – Disruptive Digital Education, Portugal
2011
Concluded
State of the Art of Information Technology in Healthcare: Perspectives and Evolution (Outros)
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2010/10/12
Concluded
Doutoramento em Ciência de Computadores - Joint supervision between the University of Kent and the University of Porto (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Modelling Access Control for Healthcare Information systems: how to control access through policies, human processes and legislation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
"Pass with minor corrections"
2010/10/12
Concluded
Ciência de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Cibersegurança
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Modelling Access Control for Health Care Information Systems, How to Control Access Through Polices, Human Processes and Legislation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009 - 2009
Concluded
Introdução à Bioestatística usando o SPSS (Curso médio)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2008 - 2008
Concluded
Interpretative Methods: The making of qualitative data and analysis (Curso médio)
European Consortium for Political Research - Summer School, Slovenia
2008 - 2008
Concluded
NVivo – Análise Qualitativa (Curso médio)
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2007 - 2007
Concluded
Advanced Security Implementation (Curso médio)
RUMOS Informática Profissional, Portugal
2007 - 2007
Concluded
VPN Técnicas de Implementação (Curso médio)
IGAP - Instituto de Gestão e Administração Pública, Portugal
2007 - 2007
Concluded
Introduction to Focus Groups (Curso médio)
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
2007 - 2007
Concluded
Creation of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) (Curso médio)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2006 - 2007
Concluded
STMS skills programme (Outros)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2005 - 2005
Concluded
E321 - Virtual Private Networks (Curso médio)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2005 - 2005
Concluded
Oracle Database 10g: Advanced PL/SQL (Curso médio)
Oracle Portugal, Portugal
2005 - 2005
Concluded
Building HL7 Solutions with Microsoft BizTalk Server (Curso médio)
Microsoft Portugal, Portugal
2004 - 2004
Concluded
Introduction to Database Architecture and Application Server ORACLE 10G (Curso médio)
Oracle Portugal, Portugal
2004 - 2004
Concluded
Associate of (ISC)2 – CISSP (Curso médio)
University of London, United Kingdom
2004 - 2004
Concluded
Wireless LAN’s (Curso médio)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2004 - 2004
Concluded
CISSP exam revision (Curso médio)
University of London, United Kingdom
2002 - 2002
Concluded
Hacking Overview & Introduction to CheckPoint Firewall-1 NG (Curso médio)
University of London, United Kingdom
2002
Concluded
MSc in Information Security (Mestrado)
Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
"Electronic Patient Record Security" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction (76% out of 100%)
2000 - 2000
Concluded
Implementing a Database on Microsoft SQLServer 7.0. (Curso médio)
RUMOS Informática Profissional, Portugal
1998
Concluded
Curso de Ciência de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Ensino assistido por computador: desenvolvimento de interfaces dinâmicas usando tecnologias web." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
13 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/07/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2023/06 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) INTI International University & Colleges Computing and IT Programmes, Malaysia
2022/01/02 - 2023/06/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Researcher (Research) Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2008/09 - 2008/12 Research Trainee (Research) University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
1998/02 - 1999/09 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/10/01 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Superior Politécnico Gaya, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2008 - 2013 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/04/04 - Current Member of ENISA Advisory Group ENISA - European Agency for Cybersecurity, Greece
2017/05/05 - Current Expert Evaluator of Research Projects European Commission, Belgium
2004/09 - Current Especialista de informática - grau 1, nível 3 (Especialista de informática) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Investigador Auxiliar FCT-IF - Starting Grant no projeto TagUBig - Taming your Big Data Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Investigação Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2012/11/15 - 2015/02/28 Post-doc position as a research associate in the STAST – Socio-Technical Aspects of Security and Trust, project funded by FNR – Fonds National de la Recherche du Luxembourg. Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2015 - 2015 Investigação Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2006/07/16 - 2010/10/12 PhD student University of Kent, United Kingdom
2007 - 2007 investigação Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2003/05/05 - 2004/04/01 Researcher in Security of Electronic Patient Records Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2002/09/16 - 2003/04/30 Researcher at Trusted Services, Security and Privacy Department HP Labs Bristol, United Kingdom
1998/02/11 - 2001/07/20 Researcher in Electronic Patient Records Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03/10 - 2024/09/09 iSupport Footprint: Exploiting usage data from a novel platform for dementia caregivers to characterize care contexts and dyads and to predict transitions out of caregiving
2022.07587.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2012/11/10 - 2015/02/18 Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST)
I2R-APS-PFN-11STAS
Invited Scientist Fellow
Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Fonds National de la Recherche
Concluded
2010/03 - 2013/09 Enhancing multi-institutional health data availability through multi-agent systems
Researcher
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/04 - 2013/04 OFELIA - Open Federated Environments Leveraging Identity and Authorization.
Researcher
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/05 - 2013/02 Optimizing Information Systems for healthcare: improving Graphical User Interface and Storage Management through Machine Learning techniques on user logs data
Researcher
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/09 - Current AIRDOC - “Aplicação móvel Inteligente para suporte individualizado e monitorização da função e sons Respiratórios de Doentes Obstrutivos Crónicos
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-033275
Researcher
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017 - Current TagUBig - Taming Your Big Data
FCT-IF /00693/2015
Principal investigator
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/07/01 - 2029/06/30 DRAPE - DESIGNING TRUST AND PRIVACY INTO RESEARCH
2022.00381.CEECIND/CP1712/CT0001
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Rede de Investigação em Saúde: do Laboratório à Saúde Comunitária
LA/P/0053/2020
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal

Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal

Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil Centro de Investigação, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30 AnyMApp - Simulador Digital Anónimo para interações entre Humanos e Aplicações Móveis
EXPL/CCI-COM/0052/2021
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2021/12/31 mINSPIRER-mHealth para medição e melhoria da adesão à medicação nas doenças respiratórias obstrutivas crónicas - generalização e avaliação de tecnologias de gamificação, suporte por pares e processamento avançado de imagem
PTDC/MEC-OUT/29130/2017
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2021/12/31 mHealth para medição e melhoria da adesão à medicação nas doenças respiratórias obstrutivas crónicas - generalização e avaliação de tecnologias de gamificação, suporte por pares e processamento avançado de imagem
PTDC/MEC-OUT/29130/2017
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2021/12/31 TagUBig - Taming your big data
IF/00693/2015/CP1306/CT0001
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde
UID/IC/04255/2019
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2019/09/30 Sistema de Suporte à Tomada de Decisão para uma Vida Independente usando uma Cloud Inteligente de Produtos e Serviços AAL
AAL/0007/2015
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2019/09/30 Sistema de Suporte à Tomada de Decisão para uma Vida Independente usando uma Cloud Inteligente de Produtos e Serviços AAL
AAL/0007/2015
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017 - 2019 NanoSTIMA – Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016
Researcher
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 753 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/SAU/UI0753/2011
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/03/22 - 2013/09/21 Optimização da disponibilidade de dados de saúde multi-institucionais através de sistemas multi-agente
PTDC/EIA-EIA/105352/2008
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/03/22 - 2013/09/21 Optimização da disponibilidade de dados de saúde multi-institucionais através de sistemas multi-agente
PTDC/EIA-EIA/105352/2008
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/04/05 - 2013/04/04 OFELIA - Ambientes abertos federados para a alavancagem de Identidade e Autorização.
PTDC/EIA-EIA/104328/2008
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/04/05 - 2013/04/04 OFELIA - Ambientes abertos federados para a alavancagem de Identidade e Autorização.
PTDC/EIA-EIA/104328/2008
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/05/03 - 2013/02/02 Optimização de Sistemas de Informação em Saúde: melhorando Interfaces Gráficos do Utilizador e a Gestão de Armazenamento através de Aprendizagem Automática em dados de logs de utilizadores
PTDC/EIA-EIA/099920/2008
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/05/03 - 2013/02/02 Optimização de Sistemas de Informação em Saúde: melhorando Interfaces Gráficos do Utilizador e a Gestão de Armazenamento através de Aprendizagem Automática em dados de logs de utilizadores
PTDC/EIA-EIA/099920/2008
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2007 - Current TAS3 - Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services
FP7 European Project
Researcher
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

University of Kent, United Kingdom

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

SAP research , Germany

SYNERGETICS, Belgium

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany

Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

University of Koblenz-Landau (DE) , Germany

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Eifel, France

Symlabs, Portugal

Risaris, Ireland

Kenteq, Netherlands

ORACLE, United Kingdom

Custodix , Belgium
Ongoing
2003 - Current HSJ.ICU – Informação Clínica do Utente
Programa operacional de saúde
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Hospital de São João, Portugal

University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Ongoing
1999 - Current INTERCARE – Sistemas médicos integrados applicados à cardiotocografia e à electrocardiografia
P0014/II/IC-PME/S
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

NOVABASE - Porto, Portugal

Hospital de São João, Portugal
Concluded
2023/01/09 - 2023/09/30 YUCA – Young Cyber-Aware to build a resilient cybersecure society
YUCA
Principal investigator
Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal

Fundação 'la Caixa', Portugal
Fundação 'la Caixa'
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Muchagata, J.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Teles, S.; Abrantes, D.; Ferreira, A.. Secure Visualization When Using Mobile Applications for Dementia Scenarios. 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_48
  2. Ferreira, A.; Chilro, R.. What to phish in a subject?. 2017.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-70278-0_38
  3. Ferreira, A.; Huynen, J.-L.; Koenig, V.; Lenzini, G.. In cyber-space no one can hear you s·CREAM: A root cause analysis for socio-technical security. 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-24858-5_16
  4. Ferreira, A.; Lenzini, G.. Can transparency enhancing tools support patient’s accessing electronic health records?. 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-16486-1_111
  5. Ferreira, A.; Coventry, L.; Lenzini, G.. Principles of persuasion in social engineering and their use in phishing. 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_4
  6. Ferreira, A.; Huynen, J.-L.; Koenig, V.; Lenzini, G.; Rivas, S.. Do graphical cues effectively inform users? A socio-technical security study in accessing wifi networks. 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_29
  7. Ferreira, A.; Huynen, J.-L.; Koenig, V.; Lenzini, G.. A conceptual framework to study socio-technical security. 2014.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-07620-1_28
  8. Ferreira, A.; Huynen, J.-L.; Koenig, V.; Lenzini, G.. Socio-technical security analysis of wireless hotspots. 2014.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-07620-1_27
  9. Ferreira, A.; Huynen, J.-L.; Koenig, V.; Lenzini, G.; Rivas, S.. Socio-technical study on the effect of trust and context when choosing WiFi names. 2013.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-41098-7_9
  10. Santos-Pereira, C.; Augusto, A.B.; Correia, M.E.; Ferreira, A.; Cruz-Correia, R.. A mobile based authorization mechanism for patient managed role based access control. 2012.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-32395-9_5
  11. Ferreira, A.; Correia, R.; Chadwick, D.W.; Santos, H.; Gomes, R.; Reis, D.; Antunes, L.; Luis Antunes. Password sharing and how to reduce it. 2010.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-61692-895-7.ch013
  12. Ferreira, A.; Barreto, L.; Brandão, P.; Correia, R.; Sargento, S.; Antunes, L.. Accessing an existing virtual electronic patient record with a secure wireless architecture. 2009.
    10.4018/978-1-60566-332-6.ch002
  13. Ferreira, A.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Antunes, L.; Chadwick, D.. Security of electronic medical records. 2008.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch003
  14. Cruz-Correia, R.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Ferreira, A.; Oliveira-Palhares, E.; Costa, P.; Costa-Pereira, A.; Ricardo Cruz Correia; et al. Monitoring the integration of hospital information systems: How it may ensure and improve the quality of data. 2006.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Ana Ferreira; Francisco Bischoff; Rute Almeida; Luís Nogueira-Silva; Ricardo Cruz-Correia; Joana Muchagata. "How Anonymous Are Your Anonymized Data? The AnyMApp Case Study". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-49215-0_54
  2. Joana Muchagata; Francisco Bischoff; Rute Almeida; Luís Nogueira-Silva; Ricardo Cruz-Correia; Ana Ferreira. "AnyMApp for Online Usability Testing: The Use-Case of Inspirers-HTN". 2024.
    10.1007/978-3-031-49215-0_60
  3. Ferreira, Ana; Morais, Tiago; Castanheira, José; Taveira-Gomes, Tiago. "Privacy and Security by Design". In Advances in Digital Crime, Forensics, and Cyber Terrorism, 151-166. IGI Global, 2023.
    10.4018/978-1-6684-8422-7.ch008
  4. Ana Ferreira; Silvana Oliveira; Viviane Peçaibes; Bruno Giesteira; Andreia Pinto de Sousa. "Girls4Cyber: A Game to Promote Awareness and Innovation in Cybersecurity". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-06394-7_60
  5. Ana Ferreira; Alena Hanchar; Vitória Menezes; Bruno Giesteira; Claudia Quaresma; Susana Pestana; Andreia Pinto de Sousa; Pedro Neves; Micaela Fonseca. "VR for Rehabilitation: The Therapist Interaction and Experience". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-19679-9_66
  6. Ana Ferreira; Rui Chilro; Ricardo Cruz-Correia. "AnyMApp Framework: Anonymous Digital Twin Human-App Interactions". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-17615-9_15
  7. Ana Ferreira; Rafael Almeida; Rute Almeida; Cristina Jácome; João Almeida Fonseca; Pedro Vieira-Marques. "mHealth to Securely Coach Chronic Patients". 805-813. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-64610-3_90
  8. Ana Ferreira; Joana Muchagata; Pedro Vieira-Marques; Diogo Abrantes; Soraia Teles. "Perceptions of Security and Privacy in mHealth". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 297-309. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-77392-2_19
  9. Ana Ferreira; Rute Almeida; Joana Muchagata. "How Secure Is Your Mobile Health?". In XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, 1377-1385. 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_168
  10. Soraia Teles; Constança Paúl; Ana Margarida Ferreira; Ferreira A. "Internet Use Among Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia: Results of an Online Survey". In Communications in Computer and Information Science series, 44-55. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-41494-8_5
  11. Muchagata, Joana; Teles, Soraia; Vieira-Marques, Pedro; Abrantes, Diogo; Ferreira, Ana. "Dementia and mHealth: On the Way to GDPR Compliance". In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 395-411. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-46970-2_19
  12. Ferreira, Ana; Almeida, Rafael; Almeida, Rute; Jácome, Cristina; Fonseca, João Almeida; Vieira-Marques, Pedro. "mHealth to Securely Coach Chronic Patients". In 8th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, 805-813. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-64610-3_90
  13. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; David Chadwick; Henrique Santos; Rui Gomes; Diogo Reis; Luís Antunes. "Password Sharing and How to Reduce It". In Certification and Security in HealthRelated Web Applications Concepts and Solutions, 243-263. IGI Global: IGI Global, 2011.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-61692-895-7
  14. Ferreira A; Luís Barreto; Pedro Brandão; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Susana Sargento; Luís Antunes. "Chapter II: Accessing an existing virtual electronic patient record with a secure wireless architecture". In Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications, 24-45. MISR: Medical Information Science Reference, 2009.
    Published
  15. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Luís Antunes; David Chadwick. "Chapter III: Security of Electronic Medical Records". In Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health, 30-47. MISR: Medical Information Science Reference, 2008.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Altamiro da Costa Pereira; Ferreira, A.; Correia, R.; Da Costa Pereira, A.. "Teaching information security to medical students". Paper presented in 10th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Praga, 2005.
    Published
  2. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "The Creation of a Secure Web-Based EPR". Paper presented in Eighth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Geneva, 2003.
    Published
  3. Ricardo Cruz Correia; Pedro Vieira Marques; Ferreira A; Pedro Vieira; João Bernardes; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "Acquisition, processing and storage of vital signals in an electronic patient record system". Paper presented in Sixth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, Udine, 2001.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. "Girls4cyber: a game to promote awareness and innovation in cybersecurity". Paper presented in HCI International 2022, 2022.
    Accepted
  2. Ferreira A. "Perceptions of Security and Privacy in mHealth". Paper presented in HCI International 2021, 2021.
    Published
  3. Ferreira A; Soraia Teles; Rui Chilro; Napolskij, Milaydis. "Netphishing: network and linguistic analysis of phishing email subject lines". Paper presented in ICEIS2020 – 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Praga, 2020.
    Published
  4. Ferreira A. "GDPR: What’s in a year (and a half)?". Paper presented in ICEIS2020 – 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Praga, 2020.
    Published
  5. Rafael Almeida; Pedro Vieira-Marques; Ferreira A. "Patients to mobilize their data: secure and flexible mHealth delegation". Paper presented in ICISSP2020 - 6th International Conference on Informations Systems Security and Privacy, Valetta, 2020.
    Published
  6. Ferreira A. "AIRDOC: Smart Mobile Application for Individualized Support and Monitoring of Respiratory Function and Sounds of Patients with Chronic Obstructive disease". Paper presented in e-Health2020, 2020.
    Published
  7. Ferreira A. "Cybersecurity in pandemic times: challenges and opportunities". Paper presented in e-Health2020, 2020.
    Published
  8. Ferreira A. "Is Privacy inspired by wellbeing? A Preliminary study". Paper presented in eHealth2020, 2020.
    Published
  9. "AIRDOC: SMART MOBILE APPLICATION FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SUPPORT AND MONITORING OF RESPIRATORY FUNCTION AND SOUNDS OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE DISEASE". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on e-Health (EH2020), 2020.
    Published • 10.33965/eh2020_202009l010
  10. Ferreira, Ana; Almeida, Rute; Jácome, Cristina; Fernandes, José; Fonseca, João A.; Vieira-Marques, Pedro. "HOW INSPIRING IS YOUR APP? A USABILITY TAKE ON AN APP FOR ASTHMAMEDICATION ADHERENCE". Paper presented in eHealth2019 - 11th International Conference on e-Health, Porto, 2019.
    Published • 10.33965/eh2019_201910c030
  11. Muchagata, J.; Ferreira, A.. "Mobile apps for people with dementia: Are they compliant with the general data protection regulation (GDPR)?". Paper presented in HEALTHINF2019 - 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2019.
    Published
  12. Spagnuelo, D.; Ferreira, A.; Lenzini, G.. "Accomplishing transparency within the general data protection regulation". Paper presented in ICISSP2019 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, 2019.
    Published
  13. Reis, S.; Ferreira, A.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Cruz-Correia, R.. "Usability study of a tool for patients' access control to their health data". Paper presented in HEALTHINF2019 - 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2019.
    Published
  14. Muchagata, J.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Ferreira, A.. "MHealth applications: Can user-adaptive visualization and context affect the perception of security and privacy?". Paper presented in 21st international Conference on Enterprise Information Systems – ICEIS2019, 2019.
    Published
  15. Muchagata, J.; Ferreira, A.. "Visual schedule: A mobile application for autistic children - Preliminary study". Paper presented in 21st international Conference on Enterprise Information Systems – ICEIS2019, 2019.
    Published
  16. Ferreira, A.. "Why Ransomware Needs A Human Touch". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 52nd International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ICCST 2018, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/CCST.2018.8585650
  17. Ferreira, A.; Vieira-Marques, P.. "Phishing through time: A ten year story based on abstracts". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, 2018.
    Published
  18. Muchagata, J.; Ferreira, A.. "How can visualization affect security?". Paper presented in 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 2018, 2018.
    Published
  19. Muchagata, J.; Ferreira, A.. "Translating GDPR into the mHealth Practice". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 52nd International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ICCST 2018, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/CCST.2018.8585546
  20. Reis, S.; Ferreira, A.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Santos-Pereira, C.; Cruz-Correia, R.. "Do patients want to know who accesses their personal health information?: A questionnaire to university students". Paper presented in Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2018, 2018.
    Published • 10.23919/CISTI.2018.8399207
  21. Ferreira, A.; Muchagata, J.. "TagUBig-Taming Your Big Data". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 52nd International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ICCST 2018, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/CCST.2018.8585539
  22. Ferreira A. "InspirerMundi: an app to measure and improve adherence to inhaled medication". Paper presented in 9th International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) World Conference, 2018.
    Published
  23. Moura, P.; Fazendeiro, P.; Marques, P.; Ferreira, A.. "SoTRAACE - Socio-technical risk-adaptable access control model". Paper presented in 51st IEEE Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST), 2017.
    Published • 10.1109/CCST.2017.8167835
  24. Ferreira A. "INSPIRERS: AN APP TO MEASURE AND IMPROVE ADHERENCE TO INHALED TREATMENT". Paper presented in 2017 International Conference on E-Health, 2017.
    Published
  25. Ferreira, A.; Lenzini, G.. "Comparing and integrating break-The-glab and delegation in role-based acceb control for healthcare". Paper presented in ICISSP2016 - 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, 2016.
    Published
  26. Ferreira A. "Development of a Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Personal Trainer". Paper presented in IJUP – 9th Meeting for Young Researchers at University of Porto, 2016.
    Published
  27. Ferreira A. "Development and evaluation of a new scoring and feedback system for a low-cost CPR training tool". Paper presented in SESAM – Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine, 2016.
    Published
  28. Ferreira A. "Trends in social-engineering: how to detect and quantify persuasion". Paper presented in RSAConference 2016 – SessionID – HUM-W02, 2016.
    Published
  29. Ferreira, A.; Lenzini, G.. "An Analysis of Social Engineering Principles in Effective Phishing". 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/STAST.2015.10
  30. Ferreira, A.; Lenzini, G.; Santos-Pereira, C.; Augusto, A.B.; Correia, M.E.. "Envisioning secure and usable access control for patients". 2014.
    Published • 10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067093
  31. Ferreira, A.; Giustolisi, R.; Huynen, J.-L.; Koenig, V.; Lenzini, G.. "Studies in socio-technical security analysis: Authentication of identities with tls certificates". 2013.
    Published • 10.1109/TrustCom.2013.190
  32. Ferreira, A.; Farinha, P.; Santos-Pereira, C.; Correia, R.; Rodrigues, P.P.; Costa-Pereira, A.; Orvalho, V.. "Log analysis of human computer interactions regarding break the glass accesses to genetic reports". 2013.
    Published
  33. Santos-Pereira, C.; Antunes, L.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Ferreira, A.. "One way to patient empowerment: The proposal of an authorization model". 2012.
    Published
  34. Rui Chilro; Ferreira A; Bruno Oliveira; Ricardo Morla. "Intermittent connection effect in the Message Ferry Delay Tolerant Network". Paper presented in DSIE'11 - 6th Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering, Porto, 2011.
    Published
  35. Ferreira, A.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Antunes, L.; Ferreira A; Luís Antunes; Pinho C; Sá C; et al. "Usability of authentication and access control: A case study in healthcare". Paper presented in 42nd IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, Praga, 2011.
    Published • 10.1109/CCST.2011.6095873
  36. Ferreira, A.; Correia, R.; Brito, M.; Antunes, L.. "Usable access control policy and model for healthcare". 2011.
    Published • 10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999035
  37. Pereira, C.; Oliveira, C.; Vilaça, C.; Ferreira, A.. "Protection of clinical data: Comparison of European with American legislation and respective technological applicability". 2011.
    Published
  38. Pereira, C.; Ferreira, A.; Antunes, L.. "Evaluation of a teleradiology system: Impact and user satisfaction". 2011.
    Published
  39. Beznosov, Konstantin. "Providing for patient empowerment. Customizable access control models for patients: a systematic review". Paper presented in Proceedings of MEDINFOR II – “A medicina na era da informação”, 2011.
    Published • 10.1145/1063979.1063988
  40. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; David Chadwick; Luís Antunes; Ferreira, A.; Correia, R.; Chadwick, D.; Antunes, L.. "Access Control in Healthcare: the methodology from legislation to practice". Paper presented in MEDINFO Congress, Cape town, 2010.
    Published • 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-666
  41. Farinha, P.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Antunes, L.; Almeida, F.; Ferreira, A.; Pedro Farinha; Ricardo Cruz Correia; et al. "From legislation to practice - A case study of break the glass in healthcare". Paper presented in International Conference on Health Informatics – Healthinf 2010, Valencia, 2010.
    Published
  42. Ferreira A; David Chadwick; Gansen Zao; Pedro Farinha; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Rui Chilro; Luís Antunes; et al. "How to securely break into RBAC: the BTG-RBAC model". Paper presented in 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference - ACSAC2009, Honolulu, 2009.
    Published • 10.1109/ACSAC.2009.12
  43. Ferreira, Ana; Cruz-Correia, Ricardo; Chadwick, David; Antunes, Luis. "Improving the implementation of access control in EMR". Paper presented in 42nd Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, 2008.
    Published • 10.1109/ccst.2008.4751275
  44. Ferreira A; Luis Antunes; et al.. "Who should access electronic patient records". Paper presented in Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics 2008, 2008.
    Published
  45. Ferreira A; Correia A; Silva A; Corte A; Pinto A; Saavedra A; Pereira AL; et al. "Why facilitate patient access to medical records". Paper presented in International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics, Amestardão, 2007.
    Published
  46. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Luís Antunes; David Chadwick; Ferreira, A.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Antunes, L.; Chadwick, D.. "Access Control: how can it improve patients' healthcare?". Paper presented in International council on medical & care compunetics, Amestardão, 2007.
    Published
  47. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Altamiro da Costa Pereira; Ferreira, A.M.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Costa-Pereira, A.. "Why teach computer security to medical students?". Paper presented in 12th MEDINFO Congress, Brisbane, 2007.
    Published
  48. Costa-Santos, C.; Coutinho, A.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Ferreira, A.; Costa-Pereira, A.. "E-learning at porto faculty of medicine. a case study for the subject 'introduction to medicine'". 2007.
    Published
  49. Ferreira, A.; Chadwick, D.; Antunes, L.. "Modelling access control for healthcare information systems - How to control access through policies, human processes and legislation". 2007.
    Published
  50. Ferreira A. "Projects Integrating Information Systems Are Going Regional - a Systematic Review". Paper presented in Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics, 2007.
    Published
  51. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Luís Antunes; Pedro Farinha; Ernesto Palhares; David Chadwick; Altamiro da Costa Pereira; et al. "How to break access control in a controlled manner?". Paper presented in 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Salt Lake City, 2006.
    Published • 10.1109/CBMS.2006.95
  52. Vieira-Marques, P.; Cruz-Correia, R.; Costa, P.; Palhares, E.; Ferreira, A.; Costa-Pereira, A.. "MAID - Multi agent for the integration of data". 2006.
    Published
  53. Ferreira, A.; Barreto, L.; Brandão, P.; Correia, R.; Sargento, S.; Antunes, L.; Ferreira A; et al. "A secure wireless architecture to access a virtual electronic patient record". Paper presented in 1st IEEE Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops, Innsbruck, 2006.
    Published • 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361668
  54. Cruz-Correia, R.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Ferreira, A.; Oliveira-Palhares, E.; Costa, P.; Araújo, F.; Ricardo Cruz Correia; et al. "Automatic detection of patient data inconsistencies on integrated health information systems". Paper presented in 1ª Conferência Ibérica de sistemas e Tecnologia de Informação, Esposende, 2006.
    Published
  55. Farinha, P.; Ferreira, A.; Correia, R.. "Web.care - Access management and recources for online multicentric clinical studies,Web.care - Gestão de acessos e recursos para estudos clínicos multicêntricos on-line". 2006.
    Published
  56. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Luís Antunes; Ernesto Palhares; Pedro Farinha; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "How to start modelling access control in a healthcare organization". Paper presented in 10th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research, Thessaloniki, 2005.
    Published
  57. Ferreira, A.; Oliveira-Palhares, E.; Correia, R.; Costa-Pereira, A.; Ferreira A; Ernesto Palhares; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "From a wired to a wireless secure EPR: Can we RE-use existing security solutions?". Paper presented in 39th IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, Las Palmas, 2005.
    Published
  58. Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Luís Antunes; Ernesto Palhares; Pedro Vieira Marques; Pedro Costa; Altamiro da Costa Pereira; et al. "Integrity for Electronic Patient Record Reports". Paper presented in 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Bethesda, 2004.
    Published
  59. Ferreira, A.; Correia, R.; Costa-Pereira, A.; Ferreira A; Ricardo Cruz Correia; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "Securing a web-based EPR: An approach to secure a centralized EPR within a hospital". Paper presented in 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, 2004.
    Published
  60. Ferreira A; Simon Shiu; Adrian Baldwin. "Towards Accountability for Electronic Patient Records". Paper presented in 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, New York, 2003.
    Published
  61. Ferreira A; Simon Shiu; Adrian Baldwin. "Towards Secure Electronic Patient Records". Paper presented in Medinf 2003, Craiova, 2003.
    Published
  62. Ferreira, A.; Shiu, S.; Baldwin, A.. "Towards accountability for electronic patient records". 2003.
    Published
  63. Armando Teixeira Pinto; Ferreira A; Gareth Parry; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "Estatística Médica na WEB". Paper presented in 1ª Conferência sobre redes de computadores, Coimbra, 1998.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira A. "Active visualization to assist and improve online accessibility and privacy in AAL solutions". Paper presented in AAL Forum 2018, 2018.
  2. Ferreira A. "Bridging the gap between technology and older adults: insights from a workshop conducted at the AAL Forum 2017". Paper presented in AAL Forum 2018, 2018.
  3. Ferreira A. "Socio-Technical Analysis of Security (STAST)". Paper presented in SnT – Partnership Day, 2013, 2013.
Edited book
  1. Ferreira A. Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams. Springer New York. 2016.
    Published • 10.1007/978-1-4939-6457-4
Journal article
  1. Teles, Soraia; Napolskij, Milaydis Sosa; Ribeiro, Oscar; Alves, Sara; Freitas, Alberto; Ferreira, Ana; Paúl, Constança. "Willingness to institutionalize a relative with dementia: a web-platform assessment with the Portuguese adapted version of the Desire-to-Institutionalize Scale". Frontiers in Medicine 10 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1277565.
    10.3389/fmed.2023.1277565
  2. Padilha, José Miguel; Costa, Patrício; Sousa, Paulino Artur Ferreira de; Ferreira A. Corresponding author: Padilha, José Miguel. "Clinical Virtual Simulation: predictors of user acceptance in nursing education". BMC Medical Education Journal (2024):
    Accepted
  3. Ferreira A. "Co-criação de uma aplicação móvel para a autogestão da asma: um protocolo de ciência cidadã". Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia (2024):
    Accepted
  4. Rita Bornes; Javier Montero; Ana Ferreira; Nuno Rosa; André Correia. "Dentists’ perceptions and usability testing of the implant disease risk assessment IDRA, a tool for preventing peri-implant disease: A qualitative study". Journal of Dentistry (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdent.2023.104630.
    10.1016/j.jdent.2023.104630
  5. Silvio Sampaio; Patricia R. Sousa; Cristina Martins; Ana Ferreira; Luís Antunes; Ricardo Cruz-Correia. "Collecting, Processing and Secondary Using Personal and (Pseudo)Anonymized Data in Smart Cities". Applied Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063830.
    10.3390/app13063830
  6. Teles, Soraia; Ferreira, Ana; Paúl, Constança. "Attitudes and preferences of digitally skilled dementia caregivers towards online psychoeducation: a cross-sectional study". Behaviour & Information Technology (2022): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2021.2021285.
    Published • 10.1080/0144929x.2021.2021285
  7. "Feasibility of an Online Training and Support Program for Dementia Carers: Results from a Mixed-methods Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial". BMC Geriatrics (2022):
    Published
  8. "GDPR compliance within research projects: a systematic review and a way forward". Data & Knowledge Engineering (2022):
    Under revision
  9. Ana Ferreira; Ricardo Cruz-Correia. "COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: Finally, an Opportunity to Disrupt?". JMIRx Med (2021): https://doi.org/10.2196/21069.
    Published • 10.2196/21069
  10. Ana Ferreira; Ricardo Cruz-Correia. "Authors' Response to Peer Reviews of COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: Finally, an Opportunity to Disrupt?". JMIRx Med (2021): https://doi.org/10.2196/29517.
    Published • 10.2196/29517
  11. Diogo Abrantes; Soraia Teles; Rita Tavares de Sousa; Alberto Freitas; Pedro Vieira-Marques; Ana Ferreira. "A Multipurpose Platform for Ambient Assisted Living (ActiveAdvice): Usability Study". JMIR Aging 1 4 (2021): https://doi.org/10.2196/18164.
    Published • 10.2196/18164
  12. Teles, Soraia; Ferreira, Ana; Paúl, Constança. "Access and Retention of Informal Dementia Caregivers in Psychosocial Interventions: A Cross-Sectional Study". Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 93 (2021): 104289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104289.
    Published • 10.1016/j.archger.2020.104289
  13. Ferreira A. "ActiveAdvice – A multi-purpose platform for Ambient Assisted Living: A usability study". JMIR Aging (2021):
    Published
  14. Soraia Teles; Ana Ferreira; Constança Paúl. "Assessing attitudes towards online psychoeducational interventions: Psychometric properties of a Brief Attitudes Scale". Health & Social Care in the Community (2020): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13227.
    Published • 10.1111/hsc.13227
  15. Soraia Teles; Constança Paúl; Milaydis Sosa Napolskij; Ana Ferreira. "Dementia caregivers training needs and preferences for online interventions: A mixed-methods study". Journal of Clinical Nursing (2020): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15445.
    Published • 10.1111/jocn.15445
  16. Soraia Teles; Milaydis Sosa; Ferreira A; Seeher, K.; constança paul. "Training and Support for Caregivers of People With Dementia: The Process of Culturally Adapting the World Health Organization iSupport Programme to Portugal". Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice (2020):
    Published
  17. Pedro Moura; Paulo Fazendeiro; Pedro R. M. Inácio; Pedro Vieira-Marques; Ana Ferreira. "Assessing Access Control Risk for mHealth: A Delphi Study to Categorize Security of Health Data and Provide Risk Assessment for Mobile Apps". Journal of Healthcare Engineering 1 (2020): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5601068.
    Published • 10.1155/2020/5601068
  18. Teles, Soraia; Ferreira, Ana; Seeher, Katrin; Fréel, Stéfanie; Paúl, Constança; Teles, S.; Ferreira, A.; et al. "Online training and support program (iSupport) for informal dementia caregivers: protocol for an intervention study in Portugal". BMC Geriatrics 20 1 (2020): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1364-z.
    Published • 10.1186/s12877-019-1364-z
  19. Dayana Spagnuelo; Ferreira A; Gabriele Lenzini. "Transparency Enhancing Tools and the GDPR: Do they Match?". Springer (2020):
    Published
  20. Soraia Teles; Ferreira A; Diotima Bertel; Rita Tavares de Sousa. "Market implementation and end users’ adoption of Ambient Assisted Living solutions: a literature review - CISBETI 2019 - International Congress of Health, Well-Being, Technology and Innovation". BMC Health Services Research 19 S1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4213-z.
    Published • 10.1186/s12913-019-4213-z
  21. Ana Ferreira; Soraia Teles. "Persuasion: How phishing emails can influence users and bypass security measures". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 125 (2019): 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.12.004.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.12.004
  22. Teles, S.; de Sousa, R.T.; Abrantes, D.; Bertel, D.; Ferreira, A.; Paúl, C.. "Bridging the gap between technology and older adults: insights from a collaborative workshop on R&D methodologies for ambient assisted living solutions". Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments 5 4 (2019): 195-207. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071078223&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1007/s40860-019-00090-1
  23. Ferreira, A.; Teles, S.; Vieira-Marques, P.. "SoTRAACE for smart security in ambient assisted living". Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments 11 4 (2019): 323-334. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85069656847&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.3233/AIS-190531
  24. Sá-Sousa, Ana; Fonseca, João Almeida; Pereira, Ana Margarida; Ferreira, Ana; Arrobas, Ana; Mendes, Ana; Drummond, Marta; et al. "The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing Policies". BioMed Research International 2018 (2018): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1495039.
    Published • 10.1155/2018/1495039
  25. Sá-Couto, Carla; Ferreira, Ana Margarida; Almeida, Diana; Nicolau, Abel; Vieira-Marques, Pedro. "Evaluation of skills acquisition using a new low-cost tool for CPR self-training". Porto Biomedical Journal 3 1 (2018): e8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbj.0000000000000008.
    Published • 10.1016/j.pbj.0000000000000008
  26. Cristina Jácome; Ferreira A; et al.. "mINSPIRERS - Estudo da exequibilidade de uma aplicação móvel para medição e melhoria da adesão à medicação inalada de controlo em adolescentes e adultos com asma persistente. Protocolo de um estudo observacional multicêntrico.". Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia 26 1 (2018): 47-61.
    Published
  27. Mariana Couto; Ferreira A; et al.. "FRASIS - Respiratory function monitoring in asthma using embedded smartphone sensors". Revista Portuguesa de Imunoalergologia 26 4 (2018): 273-283.
    Published
  28. Soraia Teles; Ferreira A; Pedro Vieira-Marques; Diotima Bertel; Constança Paúl; Andrea Kofler. "Trust Requirements for the Uptake of Ambient Assisted Living Digital Advisory Services". BMC Health Services Research 18 2 (2018): 684.
    Published
  29. Sá-Couto, Carla; Vieira-Marques, Pedro; Nicolau, Abel; Almeida, Diana; Ferreira, Ana Margarida; Drummond, David; Truchot, Jennifer; et al. "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine". Advances in Simulation 2 S1 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41077-017-0058-x.
    Published • 10.1186/s41077-017-0058-x
  30. Cruz-Correia, R.; Boldt, I.; Lapão, L.; Santos-Pereira, C.; Rodrigues, P.P.; Ferreira, A.M.; Freitas, A.. "Analysis of the quality of hospital information systems audit trails". BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 13 1 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880971333&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1186/1472-6947-13-84
  31. Ferreira A; Luís Antunes; Ricardo Cruz Correia; David Chadwick. "Grounding Information Security in Healthcare". International Journal of Medical Informatics 79 4 (2010): 268-283. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T7S-4YC8RM4-1&_user=2460038&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1753416191&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000057398&_versi.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.01.009
  32. Ricardo Cruz Correia; Jeremy Wyatt; Pedro Vieira Marques; Filipa Almeida; Ferreira A; Altamiro da Costa Pereira. "Reviewing the integration of patient data: how systems are evolving in practice to meet patient needs". BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 7 1 (2007): 14-24.
    Published • 10.1186/1472-6947-7-14
  33. Cruz-Correia, R.; Vieira-Marques, P.; Costa, P.; Ferreira, A.; Oliveira-Palhares, E.; Araújo, F.; Costa-Pereira, A.; et al. "Integration of hospital data using agent technologies - A case study". AI Communications 18 3 (2005): 191-200. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-25644437758&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
Manual
  1. Ferreira A. Segurança da informação de saúde. Portugal. 2005.
    Published
  2. Ferreira A. Desenvolvimento de interfaces gráficas para a Web - manual online. Portugal. 1998.
    Published
Online resource
  1. EPIC Women in Cyber. 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6871043953551007744.
  2. Who’s Who in Cybersecurity. 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6827906106338103296.
Report
  1. Ferreira A. 2018. Business email compromise (BEC) attack trends report..
  2. Ferreira A. 2010. Modelling Access Control for Healthcare Information systems: how to control access through policies, human processes and legislation.
  3. Ferreira A. 2004. Implementação de uma Política de Segurança e Controlo de Acesso.
  4. Ferreira A. 2002. Electronic Patient Record Security.

Other

Other output
  1. Authors' Response to Peer Reviews of “COVID-19 and Cybersecurity: Finally, an Opportunity to Disrupt?” (Preprint). 2021. Ana Ferreira; Ricardo Cruz-Correia. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.29517.
    10.2196/preprints.29517
  2. COVID-19, Cybersecurity and the Human Right to Privacy (Preprint). 2020. Ana Ferreira; Ricardo Cruz-Correia. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.21069.
    10.2196/preprints.21069
  3. A Multipurpose Platform for Ambient Assisted Living (ActiveAdvice): Usability Study (Preprint). 2020. Diogo Abrantes; Soraia Teles; Rita Tavares de Sousa; Alberto Freitas; Pedro Vieira-Marques; Ana Ferreira. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.18164.
    10.2196/preprints.18164
  4. Method to implement Break the Glass from legislation to practice. Processo. 2010. Ferreira A.
  5. Break the Glass in healthcare. Software. 2009. Ferreira A; Pedro Farinha.
  6. Implement Break the Glass features for PERMIS. Software. 2008. Ferreira A; David Chadwick; Erick Santos.
  7. Atitudes e opiniões de profissionais de saúde e doentes quanto à utilização de computadores em cuidados primários – Revisão sistemática. 2006. Chuva MT; Fernandes MT; Correia C; Barbosa L; Silva MJ; Gomes MJ; Moreira MM; et al.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 A cibersegurança hoje
DXC Technologies.
2023 Anatomy of a Cyberattack Geek Girls Portugal
Geek Girls Portugal (Porto, Portugal)
2023 Cybersecurity in (a) Perspective DevScope
Geek Girls Portugal. (Porto, Portugal)
2023 Webinar: Dia Internacional das raparigas nas TIC “TIC-TeK Day”. Panel discussion University of Beira Interior.
University of Beira Interior. (Portugal)
2023 Workshop: Cibersegurança: tendências para 2023. Panel discussion
PT and Women4cyber Portugal (Portugal)
2023 Workshop: Y4Cyber – Matilde Cyberdetective and Girls4cyber game prototype. First grade students (6,7 years old). Primary School in Portugal
Primary School in Portugal (Portugal)
2023 ChatGPT: que modelos de aprendizagem para o ensino superior? Panel discussion.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023 Cybersecurity in (a) perspective SBSeg2023 - XXIII Simpósio Brasileiro em Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) Juiz de Fora - MG (Brazil)
2023 Cybersecurity: A double-edged sword? Escola 42
Escola 42 (Portugal)
2023 How Anonymous Are Your Anonymized Data? The AnyMApp Case Study 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2023 AnyMApp for Online Usability Testing: The Use-Case of Inspirers-HTN 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2022/02/25 Information security: avoiding or integrating the human Lunchtime Talk - Information Security for Internal Auditors
European Medical Association
2022/02/23 eHealth vs eBanking: The trust breaking points Confraria de Segurança
AP2SI
2022/02/17 Cibersegurança: CID e COVID SEI - Semana da Engenharia Informática
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022 Panel discussion regarding data security HOD: Hands On Data Conference
(Bochum, Germany)
2022 Swiss Cyber Storm. Securing the Digital Who’s in Healthcare Swiss Cyber Storm 2022
(Berna, Switzerland)
2022 A pessoa o elo mais fraco? Como evitá-lo. Panel discussion Cyber Cloud Expo
(Porto, Portugal)
2022 Redes Sociais – Riscos e boas práticas. Protege o teu campus. Meta Red Portugal
Meta Red Portugal (Portugal)
2022 SOS – Sunset Open Session. Presentation of three projects developed in the ambit of the Specialization in Interaction Design, Web and Games, from the Faculty of Fine Arts – University of Porto SOS – Sunset Open Session
Faculty of Fine Arts – University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022 Workshop: Cibersegurança: mais arte que ciência? Summer School. MEDCIDS. Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto
Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022 Workshop: Securing your health research. CINTESIS@RISE. Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto
CINTESIS@RISE. Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022 Webinar: Segurança no Ciberespaço - Panel discussion Engenharia em Discussão. IEEE PT.
IEEE PT (Portugal)
2022 AnyMApp Framework: Anonymous Digital Twin Human-App Interactions 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2022 VR for rehabilitation: the therapist interaction and experience 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2022 Girls4Cyber: a game to promote awareness and innovation in cybersecurity 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
2021/02/06 Usability assessment: Involvement of end users Adherence to treatment and mHealth: the branching of the Inspirers project. Winter School 2021
Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/01/05 Privacy and Security in mHealth mHealth patient-centred technologies – the future is now. Winter School 2021
Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021 Trust by design a new old requirement SOUPS – Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (Lightning talk)
2021 Cibersegurança em Saúde – Conhecimento vs confiança Escola de Verão 2021
MEDCIDS – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto. (Porto, Portugal)
2021 TagUBig: lessons from a project and a pandemic ACSAC2021
2020/02 Patients to mobilize their data: secure and flexible mHealth delegation ICISSP2020
(Valleta, Malta)
2020 GDPR: What’s in a year (and a half)? ICEIS2020
2020 Netphishing: network and linguistic analysis of phishing email subject lines ICEIS2020
2020 Is Privacy inspired by wellbeing? A Preliminary study eHealth2020
2020 Cybersecurity in pandemic times: challenges and opportunities eHealth2020
2020 Perceptions of Security and Privacy in mHealth ACSAC2020 - Work in progress
2019/09 How secure is your mobile health? MEDICON2019
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/07 How inspiring is your app: a usability take on an app for astHma medication adherence eHealth2019
(Porto, Portugal)
2018/10 Translating GDPR into the mHealth Practice IEEE Carnahan Conference 2018
(Montreal, Canada)
2018/10 TagUBig – Taming Your Big Data IEEE Carnahan Conference 2018
(Montreal, Canada)
2018/10 Why ransomware needs a human touch IEEE Carnahan Conference 2018
(Montreal, Canada)
2017/04 What to phish in a subject? TA2017 - Financial Crypto conference
(Malta)
2015 Can transparency enhancing tools support patient’s accessing electronic health records? WORLDCIST2015
(Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2014 Envisioning secure and usable access control for patients SEGAH2014
(Brazil)
2013 Designing defenses against socio-technical attacks SOUPS2013
(Newcastle)
2013 Log analysis of human computer interactions regarding break the glass accesses ICEIS2013
(Angers, France)
2012 Modelling access control for healthcare information systems: How to control access through policies, human processes and legislation Technical Seminar
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
2011 Break Security to Improve Security in Healthcare Information security for dummies
Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Valença (Valença, Portugal)
2011 Usability of authentication and access control: a case study in healthcare IEEE Carnahan Conference
(Barcelona, Spain)
2009 Grounded Theory Methodology Grounded Theory Methodology Workshop
University Fernando Pessoa (Porto, Portugal)
2009 Controlo de acesso nos sistemas de informação de saúde Workshop em Segurança Informática
Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2009 How to securely break into RBAC: the BTG-RBAC model ACSAC2009
(United States)
2008 Break the glass in healthcare Information Security Group seminars
ISG Group (Egham, United Kingdom)
2008 Access control in healthcare information systems 1st Information Security Group Alumni Conference
ISG Group, Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham, United Kingdom)
2008 Who should access electronic patient records International Conference on Health Informatics
(Funchal, Portugal)
2008 Improving the implementation of access control to electronic medical records 42nd IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
(Prague, Czech Republic)
2007 Segurança da informação em saúde Curso de Informática Médica
INA – Instituto Nacional de Administração (Oeiras, Portugal)
2007 Modelling access control for healthcare information systems: how to control access through policies, human processes and legislation 5th Doctoral Consortium – DCEIS
(Funchal, Portugal)
2007 Access Control: how can it improve patients' healthcare? International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics
(Amesterdam, Netherlands)
2007 Why facilitate patient access to medical records International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics
(Amesterdam, Netherlands)
2007 PhD Project (ISC)2 Scholarship Award
(ISC)2 - International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (London, United Kingdom)
2006 Segurança na integração de sistemas Curso de Informática Médica
INA – Instituto Nacional de Administração (Oeiras, Portugal)
2006 Segurança em saúde Workshop do departamento de Ciência de Computadores
Departamento de Ciência de Computadores, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2006 A secure wireless architecture to access a virtual electronic patient record IEEE Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops
(Innsbruck, Austria)
2006 How to break access control in a controlled manner? 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
(Salt Lake City, United States)
2006 PhD Project (ISC)2 scholarship award
(ISC)2 - International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (London, United Kingdom)
2006 A secure wireless architecture to access a virtual electronic patient record IEEE PervasiveHealth2006
(Austria)
2005 Teaching information security to medical students 10th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine
10th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (Prague, Czech Republic)
2005 From a wired to a wireless secure EPR: Can we re-use existing security solutions? 39th IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
(Las Palmas, Spain)
2004 Securing a web-based EPR: An approach to secure a centralized EPR within a hospital 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (Porto, Portugal)
2004 Integrity for Electronic Patient Record Reports 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
(Bethesda, United States)
2003 Towards Secure Electronic Patient Records MEDINF’ 2003
MEDINF’ 2003 (Craiova, Romania)
2003 The Creation of a Secure Web-Based EPR Eighth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine
Eighth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (Geneva, Switzerland)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current moveUP! Upgrading a mHealth app for personalised physical activity coaching within pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD
Co-supervisor
Doctoral program in health data sciences (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020 - Current Estudo e desenvolvimento de uma aplicação móvel que implemente o modelo de controlo de acesso SoTRAACE, no domínio da saúde
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020 - Current Estudo e desenvolvimento de uma aplicação móvel, baseada em interação social e serious games, para formação parental
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2015 - Current A mobile based authorization mechanism for patients to access and manage their electronic health records
Co-supervisor
PhD – Doctoral Programme (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2011 - Current OFELIA – Valet Key and authorization mechanisms
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Privileged Access Management (PAM): comparison between the health and business sectors.
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022 - 2023 Desenvolvimento de uma Aplicação Web e Mobile como Ferramenta de Suporte a Consultas de Nutrição
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022 - 2023 A integração da simulação clínica virtual no ensino de enfermagem: um estudo de avaliação da aceitação da tecnologia e da usabilidade
Supervisor
Pós-Doutoramento (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021 - 2022 SAPA: uma análise para futuro melhoramento.
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020 - 2022 Internet-based support and training for informal caregivers of people living with dementia
Co-supervisor
PHD IN CLINICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH (PDICSS) (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 - 2022 Internet-based support and training for informal caregivers of people living with dementia
Co-supervisor
PDICSS (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018 - 2019 TagUBig – Taming Your Big Data
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Usability - AAL
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 - 2018 A prototype to promote patient empowerment using audit trails
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Security issues in mobile access to Portuguese electronic health records
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Development and validation of a low-cost tool for CRP Self-Training
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014 - 2018 Defining, Measuring, and Enabling Transparency for Electronic Medical Systems
Co-supervisor
PhD – Doctoral Programme (PhD)
Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017 - 2017 Comparação do Controlo de Acesso em Instituições de Saúde Privadas e Públicas, da Região Norte
Supervisor
Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Socio-technical security frameworks
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Evaluation of skills acquisition using a new tool for CPR self-training
Supervisor
Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2012 - 2016 Socio-Technical Aspects of Security
Co-supervisor
PhD – Doctoral Programme (PhD)
Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2011 - 2012 One way to patient empowerment. A proposal for an authorisation model
Supervisor
Mestrado em informática médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Controlo de acesso à informação de saúde da legislação à prática: um caso de estudo do break the glass
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Evaluation of the usability of a TeleRadiology system at the ACES Nordeste
Supervisor
Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2005 - 2005 The Access to Medical Records: a systematic review
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2005 - 2005 Electronic Patient Records. Who can access what?
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2004 - 2004 Impact of the use of computers in the performance of healthcare professionals in primary healthcare – Systematic Review
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2004 - 2004 Attitudes and opinions of healthcare professionals and patients regarding the use of computers – Systematic Review
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Security in healthcare information systems - Medical perspective
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Security in healthcare information systems of the Obstetrics department of Hospital de S. João - Nurses perspective
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Security in healthcare information systems. Opinions and beliefs of Medical students
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Security in healthcare information systems. What do medical doctors think?
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Ethics allied to the confidentiality of patient medical records
Supervisor
Medicina (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2019/09 - Current Special Session at MEDICON2019 (2019/09)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017/09 - Current Workshop organiser at Forum AAL 2017 (2017/09)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2024/02/16 - 2024/02/16 In Health Academy - Workshop with students from the secondary degree interested in themes of digital health. Our session focused on challenges and solutions for Electronic Clinical Records. (2024/02/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Organisation of a webinar regarding "Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity. (2023 - 2023)
Round table (President of the Organising Committee)
Women4Cyber Portugal, Portugal
2023 - 2023 CyberKids Workshops (2023 - 2023)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Women in Tech Portugal, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 Webinar Challenges for women in stem. Youth SDG – Sustainable Development Goals Summit
Seminar
SDG – Sustainable Development Goals Summit
2021 - 2021 Carreiras em cibersegurança - Webinar
Seminar
Women4Cyber Portugal, Portugal
2006 - 2006 Technical Committee of the workshop Security and Privacy for Mobile Health Care
Workshop
Workshop Security and Privacy for Mobile Health Care 2006

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 Priviledge Access Management (PAM): comparison between the health and business sectors
Supervisor
Maria Francisca Beato Tavares das Neves (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2023 Desenvolvimento de uma Aplicação Web e Mobile como Ferramenta de Suporte a Consultas de Nutrição
Supervisor
Sofia Azeredo Raimundo (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020/12/18 Desenvolvimento de uma Aplicação para Smartphone: Autogestão da Doença Renal Crónica Terminal
(Thesis) Arguer
João Pedro Gomes Barros (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019/12 Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Collection and Management of Online Consent Request.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Ana Cristina de Melo Carvalho (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 Validação da identificação de utentes num integrador de mensagens HL7 para monitorização e portabilidade de dados na área da saúde.
(Thesis) Arguer
Ana Cláudia de Loureiro e Nogueira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018 The social insider threat to end users of smartphones
(Thesis) Main arguer
Diogo Marques (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017 The social insider threat to end users of smartphones.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Diogo Marques (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016 mHealth: O impacto da nova diretiva Europeia de Proteção de Dados, caso de uso e avaliação.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Ricardo Jorge Tomé Rodrigues Pires (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2015 View and Verify Access Control Policies
(Thesis) Main arguer
João Sá (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014 Gestual Dynamic with skin conductivity – a multimodal approach for biometrics authentication
(Thesis) Main arguer
Vítor Júlio da Silva Sá (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011 Evaluation of the usability of a TeleRadiology system at the ACES Nordeste Carla Pereira (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 Securing a Health Information System with a Government issued Digital Identification Card Ricardo Santos (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 Controlo de Acesso à Informação de Saúde da legislação à prática: um caso de estudo do break the glass Pedro Farinha (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/05 - Current Women4cyber Portugal Co-founder and Research and Innovation Team Lead
2021 - Current Women4cyber Portugal Chapter Co-Founder and Research and Innovation Team Lead
2020 - Current INSTICC - the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Membro
2008/09 - Current CINTESIS - Centre for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems
2004/07 - Current (ISC)2 - The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium
2002/09 - Current British Computer Society (BCS)

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022 - Current AFP2022
2022 - Current HCI-CPT 2022
2020 - Current Annual Privacy Forum 2020 Portugal
2019 - Current GMEPE/PAHCE Argentina
2018 - Current GMEPE/PAHCE Portugal
2024 - 2024 HCII2024 - 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION Washington
2023 - 2023 Annual Privacy Forum 2024 Sweden

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/04 - Current HI.PRESENT - Health Data Visualization and Communication HEADS - PhD in Health Data Science (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020/02/03 - Current HI.MANAGE - Health Data Management HEADS - PhD in Health Data Science (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020 - Current Theoretical lecture in information security for healthcare systems. Mestrado em Informática Médica (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020 - Current Information Security: CID – RGPD – COVID-19 Mestrado em bioengenharia (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Segurança na programação Aperfeiçoamento (Curso médio) Departamento de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Segurança da informação em saúde Outra (Curso médio) Escola de verão, Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Introduction to Qualitative Analysis and Grounded Theory Outra (Curso médio) Summer School at Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
2005 - 2005 Introdução à Medicina - Segurança da informação Outra (Curso médio) Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2004 - 2004 Introdução à Medicina - Segurança da informação Outra (Curso médio) Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Introdução à Medicina - Segurança da informação Outra (Curso médio) Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2001 - 2001 Curso de expressão dramática Outra (Curso médio)
2000 - 2000 Curso de piano do conservatório de música do Porto Especialização (Curso médio)

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2005 - Current 2º Vogal suplente do júri do concurso para contratação de um profissional para desempenho de funções equiparadas às de assistente administrativo para o Centro de Informática Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023 Expresso 50 mulheres 50 ideias, Ideias inovadoras em Saúde. Cibersegurança Expresso
2010 Artigo "Jumping from Academy to the Market by hitchhiking the practice of Fraunhofer" Jornal de Negócios
2007 Entrevista "Human touch for Healthcare"
2006 Entrevista "(ISC)2 scholarship winner aims to please users" InfosecurityToday

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024 - 2024 Entrevista online "Talento Tecnológico em Portugal - Atrair e Reter"
2023 - 2023 Podcast: Cyberstar talk. Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Cybersecurity.
2023 - 2023 Podcast #6: EU Cybersecurity Scenario. EU Cybersecurity Scenario
2023 - 2023 Radio Interview - "Tudo Menos Alguma Coisa" Research path regarding my profile and path in Cybersecurity.
2021/01/15 - 2021/01/15 90 Segundos de Ciência Projecto TagUBig – Taming Your Big Data.

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019 - Current Sensors (1424-8220) MDPI AG
2019 - Current Applied Sciences (2076-3417)
2019 - Current International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering (1793-8163) International Academy Publishing (IAP)
2019 - Current ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (2158-656X) Association for Computing Machinery
2010/05/11 - 2010/06/11 The Computer Journal Oxford University Press

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021 - Current Women4Cyber Mentorship Programme Several
2024 - 2024 Mentorship Program - Google Cybersecurity and Women4cyber Foundation Several

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Member of the Jury Committee of the (ISC)2’s GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Distinctions

Award

2023 Prémio SPAIC – JABA RECORDATI 2023, melhor prémio de investigação em Asma "COSMIC Co-creation of a self-management app for asthma: a citizen science protocol"
Sociedade Portuguesa de Alergologia e Imunologia Clínica, Portugal
2022 Cyber Security Woman of The Year Award 2022 - Category "Barrier Breaker"
Women4cyber Foundation, Belgium
2020 Best Paper Award
eHealth2020, Portugal
2019 Best Student Paper Award. HEALTHINF 2019
2019 Best Paper Award. ICISSP 2019
2018 Best Communication Award. 4th IPLeiria Int Health Congress 2018
2018 Best Poster Award. ICEIS2018
2015 Best paper award HCII2015
1993 Prémio Jorge Manuel de Jesus Rodrigues - atribuído ao melhor aluno do curso da área de informática da Escola Secundária de Oliveira Martins, ano lectivo de 92/93
Importadores de produtos químicos e farmacêuticos de Portugal, Portugal

Other distinction

2022 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards 2022 – Top 20.
2022 Featured in book: “Hacking Gender Barriers: Europe’s Top Cyber Women" - Top 100 cyber women in Europe
2020 Louvor 172/2020 – Economia e Transação Digital
2017 SPAIC – ASTRAZENECA 2017 – FRASIS – Monitorização da função respiratória na asma utilizando os sensores integrados do smartphone.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Alergologia e Imunologia Clínica, Portugal
2013 Honourable mention. Controlo de acesso à informação de saúde. Da legislação à prática: um caso de estudo do Break-The-Glass.
2012 Post-Doctoral Scholarship
2010 1º lugar do Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge – “Investigação de Utilidade Prática”, categoria de doutoramento.
2008 Scholarship Award to Post-Graduate Student Research in Information Security
(ISC)2-The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Portugal
2007 Scholarship Award to Post-Graduate Student Research in Information Security
(ISC)2-The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Portugal
2007 “Gran Premio” at Veneza in Musica Contest - Choir participation
Musica Contest, Portugal
2007 (ICS)2 Scholarship Award
2006 Scholarship Award to Post-Graduate Student Research in Information Security
(ISC)2 - The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Portugal
2006 ISC2 Scholarship Award
2006 Prémio Fernandes Costa - Direcção-Geral da Administração Pública
2006 Bolsa de apoio a participação em Congressos
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
2005 Prémio e-Saúde
2004 Prémio e-Health para o projecto ICU (Informação Clínica do Utente)
Hospital do Futuro, Portugal
2004 Bolsa de apoio a participação em Congressos
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
2002 MSc in Information Security
1994 Prémio escolar Jorge Manuel de Jesus Rodrigues