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LASIGE’s robots visit a primary school

LASIGE’s robots visit a primary school

As part of the “Programa Cientificamente Provável”, of which LASIGE is a partner, we have established a long-term partnership with the schools in Santa Iria de Azóia. In this first activity, 77 children in the primary school (3rd and 4th grade) interacted with our...
Eyes4Access Workshop @ ETRA 2026

Eyes4Access Workshop @ ETRA 2026

Carlos Duarte, LASIGE integrated member, co-organized the second edition of the Eyes4Access Workshop – “New Frontiers of Eye Tracking in Accessible Interaction and Communication”, held at ETRA 2026 in Marrakech, Morocco, on June 1-4, 2026. The...
Household resource efficiency and personalised energy feedback

Household resource efficiency and personalised energy feedback

Zygimantas Jasiunas, a PhD student supervised by Pedro M. Ferreira and José Cecílio, published the paper titled “Household Laundry Appliance Resource Consumption and Operation Dataset” in the journal “Scientific Data”, which has an impact...
LASIGE with Strong Presence at CHI 2026

LASIGE with Strong Presence at CHI 2026

LASIGE researchers showed a strong presence at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), the flagship venue in HCI (CORE A*), held in Barcelona from 13 to 17 April 2026. The team presented six full papers and two posters, as well as...
Can robots be political influencers?

Can robots be political influencers?

This is a question that our researchers Hugo Simão and João Pedro Pereira, PhD student and MSc student, respectively, and Tiago Guerreiro and Isabel Neto (IR), both integrated members, are seeking to answer at the RobotsVote project, a project that was awarded funding...