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Sérgio Alves is currently a Research Assistant at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University. He completed his Master's degree in Informatics in 2017 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the BSc degree in Information and Communication Technologies in 2015 at the same institution. He participated as Research Fellow, or Hired Researcher in 4 research projects. He works in the area of Computer Science and Information. In his professional activities he interacted with 4 collaborators in co-authoring of scientific works. His fields of interest and expertise include human-computer interaction, accessibility, wearable and mobile interaction, social computing, and healthcare technologies. His goal has always been to create useful and usable technologies to improve people's quality of life or access to information. He is particularly interested in exploring how we can use digital technologies to empower individuals in today's society.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sérgio Alves
Date of birth
1994/09/23
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Alves, Sérgio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D514-36D6-441F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3647-0624
Google Scholar ID
ksBW-T0AAAAJ

Email addresses

  • sfalves@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/01 - 2023/09/01
Ongoing
 Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015/10 - 2017/11
Concluded
 Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Scrapbook: Biographical digital scrapbooks for people with dementia " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17.3
2012/09 - 2015/06
Concluded
 Tecnologias de Informação (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 15.3
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/09 - 2018/09 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/10/06 - 2019/10/01 Research Assistant Newcastle University School of Computing Science, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/01/01 - 2017/02/28 ASTARTE - FP7 CP G.A. no 603839
ASTARTE
Research Fellow
Concluded
2016/10/01 - 2017/02/28 LABORATÓRIO DE SISTEMAS INFORMÁTICOS DE GRANDE-ESCALA; UI0408
UID/CEC/00408/2013
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/05 - 2018/09 Sistema Online de Monitorização das Práticas de Acessibilidade dos sítios Web da Administração Pública Portuguesa
351-BIMSC-042018
Research Fellow
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09 - 2018/04 MobileHCI
MobileHCIcc4375
Research Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Concluded
2016/01 - 2016/03 Roteiro dos Descobrimentos
BI-LIC-ROTEIRO
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
EEA Grants
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Sérgio Alves; Ricardo Costa; Kyle Montague; Tiago Guerreiro. "GitUI: A Community-Based Platform to Democratize User Interfaces". 2023.
    10.1145/3544549.3585668
  2. "Designing Personalized Therapy Tools for People with Dementia". 2019.
    10.1145/3315002.3317571
Conference poster
  1. Alves, Sérgio; Brito, Filipa; Cordeiro, Andreia; Carriço, Luis; Guerreiro, Tiago. "Enabling Biographical Cognitive Stimulation for People with Dementia". Paper presented in ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018.
    10.1145/3170427.3188693
Journal article
  1. Filipa Brito; Alves, Sérgio; Osvaldo Santos; Tiago Guerreiro; Cátia Caneiras; Luís Carriço; Ana Verdelho. "Photo-Realistic Interactive Virtual Environments for Neurorehabilitation in Mild Cognitive Impairment (NeuroVRehab.PT): A Participatory Design and Proof-of-Concept Study". Journal of Clinical Medicine (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9123821.
    10.3390/jcm9123821
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Alves, Sérgio. "Scrapbooks: biographical digital scrapbooks for people with dementia". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31843.
Activities

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/04/07 - 2018/04/07 Oral presentation with the theme "Biographical training and cognitive stimulation platforms". I discussed about the introduction of technologies in cognitive training and stimulation activities, and presented the platform developed by me, the Scrapbook.
Congress
 I CNS Congress – “Technology and Parkinson's Disease?”
Campus Neurolo´gico Se´nior, Portugal