World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, by the United Nations (UN), is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille, a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical,...
We are pleased to announce that Carlos Duarte, leader of the Inclusive Human-Computer Interaction at LASIGE, has been appointed as an expert to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Digital Inclusion and Accessibility track for virtual worlds and the...
LASIGE is very proud and honored to congratulate its seven recent PhD graduates: Diogo Lima, “A Geographical-Aware State Deployment Service for Fog Computing”, supervised by Hugo Miranda; Diogo Soares, “Triclustering Three-way Temporal and...
On 11 December 2024, LASIGE held the second session of ‘LASIGE Talks’, a fortnightly event designed to showcase recently awarded publications or cutting-edge work in progress by researchers at the research centre, consolidating the scientific culture of the LASIGE...
The paper “Crafting Virtual Realities: Designing a VR End-User Authoring Platform for Personalized Exposure Therapy”, co-authored by LASIGE’s researchers João P. Ferreira, Filipa Ferreira-Brito, João Guerreiro and Tiago Guerreiro has been published and presented at...
Alysson Bessani, integrated member and director of LASIGE, was invited to speak at OPODIS 2024, the Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems and one of the top three in the area of distributed algorithms, which took place from 11 to 13 December 2024 in Lucca,...
