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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...

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...

What Do 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:...

When Robot Studies Stir Emotions: LASIGE Research at HRI 2026

Sometimes, an interaction with a robot may frighten a child. It may move someone to tears or even lead to an attachment that makes the end of a study difficult. These moments can shape participants’ experiences and researchers’ decisions, yet often go unrecorded in...

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...

International Conference on Computational Complexity brings together researchers in Lisbon

The Computational Complexity Conference 2026 (CCC’26) took place in Lisbon from 3 to 6 August at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. The conference brought together researchers from various countries working at the forefront of computational...