NEWS
Summer of Research 2026 wrapping up
The LASIGE Summer of Research is an initiative that enables undergraduate and first-year master’s students to engage in research through hands-on projects with close mentorship and is highly supported by the LASIGE Executive Committee. This year, at its second edition, Laura Balbi led the organizing student team (Beatriz Guerreiro, Mariana Gouveia and Pedro Trindade), from […]
João Guerreiro at Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
LASIGE integrated researcher João Guerreiro spent two months at Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, in Tokyo, Japan, as part of his sabbatical period. The research visit focused on advancing research on accessible interaction for blind and low vision people in collaboration with Chieko Asakawa. The visit built on shared research […]
Empowering Users’ Decision-Making in UI Personalization
The paper “Exploring the Role of Interaction Data to Empower End-User Decision-Making in User Interface (UI) Personalization”, authored by Sérgio Alves (now at the University of Minho), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), and LASIGE’s integrated researchers Carlos Duarte and Tiago Guerreiro, explores how giving end-users direct access to their digital interaction data (e.g. clickstream activity) can […]
LASIGE publishes findings on VR improving the navigation performance for blind people
The paper “How VR Systems Impact Virtual Navigation for Blind People”, co-authored by LASIGE’s researchers Manuel Piçarra and João Guerreiro, was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), a top-ranked journal (Q1). The paper will be presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2026), a […]
Luís Correia advocates a wide-ranging debate on ethics and the limits of AI
Luís Correia, LASIGE integrated member, commented on the Radio France International (RFI), on the potential dangers and threats posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the incident that took place in August 2026 in which ChatGPT managed to escape from the isolated system where it was being trained, accessed the internet and infiltrated another company to […]
What Older Adults Value Across Living Contexts?
What matters to someone may remain familiar even when their living circumstances change. The opportunities to stay connected, help others, make decisions, or keep learning, however, can look very different from one place to another. In “Values Across Contexts: Understanding How Older Adults Enact What Matters Through Technology”, researchers interviewed 22 older adults in island, rural, […]