Carlos Filipe Abrantes Antunes Pinto (D71B-C2FA-78E4)

Curriculum Vitae

Carlos Filipe Abrantes Antunes Pinto

Filipe Pinto is an academic researcher, assistant professor, and PhD student in Media Arts and Communication at Universidade Lusófona. His academic foundation was laid with a degree in Communications, specializing in Organizational Communication, which ignited his passion for exploring the dynamics of message dissemination and audience engagement. This led him to pursue a post-graduation in Sports Marketing at Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade de Lisboa. Later on, he completed another degree in Multimedia Applications and Video Games, followed by a Master's in Design, where he produced a dissertation on the theme of suspension of disbelief - "Suspensão da descrença: Entre a realidade e a ficção" - which was awarded the highest grade of 20. Since 2019, Filipe has been part of HEI-Lab – Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab at Universidade Lusófona, contributing to several projects as a senior developer and team leader. His work includes leading the development for the FCT-financed project PlayersAll: Media Agency and Empowerment (EXPL/COM-OUT/0882/2021), enhancing his expertise in game and multimedia apps development for academic research. This role has deepened his understanding of procedural protocols and project execution, particularly in studies involving human participants. Currently, Filipe is working on his PhD research on game studies, exploring the use of non-serious video games to introduce social discourse, his project is titled "Converging Realities: Exploring fourth wall breaks and metanarratives in video games".

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Carlos Filipe Abrantes Antunes Pinto

Citation names

Pinto, Filipe
Pinto, Carlos Filipe

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D71B-C2FA-78E4
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0527-4655

Email addresses

filipe.pinto@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

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
2022/10/04 - 2026/08/31 Ongoing	Artes dos Media e Comunicação (Doutoramento) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2023/03/10 Concluded	Design (Mestrado) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal "Suspensão da descrença: Entre a realidade e a ficção. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/13773" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2013/09/01 - 2017/08/04 Concluded	Aplicações Multimedia e Videojogos (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal	16
2005/02/01 - 2005/07/31 Concluded	Marketing do Desporto (Pós-Graduação) Major in Marketing Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal	18
2000/09/01 - 2004/07/28 Concluded	Ciências da Comunicação e da Cultura (Licenciatura) Major in Comunicação Organizacional Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal	13

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/03/01 - Current	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10/30 - Current	Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/07/01 - Current	Laboratórios Digitais de Ambientes e Interacções Humanas UIDB/05380/2020 10.54499/UIDB/05380/2020 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022/09/01 - 2023/05/31	Laboratórios Digitais de Ambientes e Interacções Humanas ILIND/SEED/HEILAB/04/2022 Research Fellow Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal	Instituto Lusófono de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Concluded
2020/09/01 - 2022/08/31	Laboratórios Digitais de Ambientes e Interacções Humanas UIDB/05380/2020 10.54499/UIDB/05380/2020 Master Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/03/01 - 2020/08	AUTOMOTIVE: AUTOmatic multiMOdal drowsiness detecTIon for smart VEhicles POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030707 Research Fellow Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia European Regional Development Fund Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Filipe Pinto; Filipe Costa Luz; Pinto, Filipe; Luz, Filipe Costa. "The Invisible Wall". Paper presented in 2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Milão, 2024. Published • 10.1109/CoG60054.2024.10645676
Journal article	Filipe Pinto. "Beyond the Screen: Exploring the Player’s Role and Its Impact on Emotional Experiences in Video Games". The International Journal of Games and Social Impact (2024): Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024):-Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024):. https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijgsi/article/view/9685. 10.60543/IJGSI.V2.N2.02
Thesis / Dissertation	"Suspensão da descrença: Entre a realidade e a ficção". Master, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/13773.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/01/10	Virtual Reality activities and games for motor and cognitive rehabilitation.	inVideogames Summit Lisboa Erasmus +; Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar; Bibliotecas de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/01/09	Doctoral Consortium - PhD research presentation - "Converging Realities: Exploring fourth wall breaks and metanarratives in video games"	Playful by Design 2024 Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/23	Do Conhecido ao Impossível: Uma Viagem ao Universo da Realidade Virtual	Lisbon Games Week 23 Fundação aip; Centro de Congressos de Lisboa; Feira Internacional de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/10/31	Tecnologia para todos: Vivências e práticas de RV	Open to Technology 2023 APPACDM - Associação Portuguesa de Pais e Amigos do Cidadão Deficiente Mental (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/06/02	Poster presentation - PhD research - "Metanarratives in video games: Raising social issues with suspension of disbelief and critical game design" (old title for the PhD research)	FilmEU_RIT Summit Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/03/10	HEI-Lab Virtual Reality Interventions	ERASMUS 1st Training Meeting - The Key to Global Life, Digital Change of Nature Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/03/17 - 2023/12/16	Seminário de estágio da licenciatura de videojogos Co-supervisor of Nuno Figueiredo	Videojogos (Degree) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/03/01 - 2022/08/10	ICDVRAT 2022 - 14th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies (2022/09/06 - 2022/09/08) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2021/09/11	ICDVRAT 2020 - 13th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies (2021/09/08 - 2021/09/10) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29	Human Behavior, Virtual Reality and Accessibility Controls Exhibition	Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2023 Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2023/03/14 - 2023/03/16	DOCTUS - FilmEU_RIT PhD Research Seminars Seminar	Artistic Research in VR Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Ireland LUCA School of Arts vzw, Belgium Tallinn Art University, Estonia
2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30	Human Behavior, Virtual Reality and Accessibility Controls Exhibition	Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2022 Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/10/30 - Current	Fundamentos de Programação	Videojogos (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal