Former LASIGE’s PhD student (and currently, LASIGE researcher) André Rodrigues was awarded by FCiências.ID. His PhD thesis, titled “Human-Powered Smartphone Assistance for Blind People”, completed in 2020, was recognized by the institution as outstanding...
In 2021 Ciências ULisboa celebrates its 110th anniversary. The commemorative ceremony to mark the occasion took place today (April 21). Once again, due to the pandemic, it was an online ceremony. In the session dedicated to the recognition of excellence at Ciências...
Francisco M Couto presented the tutorial Biomedical Text Processing using Semantics at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021). The tutorial addressed the challenges encountered when processing the ever-increasing amount of biomedical text,...
Tiago Guerreiro, LASIGE integrated member, was the keynote speaker at the first “Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Assistive Technologies” (MPAT’21), with “Designing Pervasive Assistive Technologies with Representative Users”, March 22,...
Our interdisciplinary Human-Computer Interaction research lab, at the Accessibility & Ageing line, is working in 3D-printed LEGO caps, assembled over a LEGO base plate. And to what for? The team, lead by Tiago Guerreiro and Ana Pires, LASIGE integrated...
The CAMELOT project was highlighted on the COMPETE 2020 website. COMPETE 2020 is the funding program that supports the project. Feedzai chief science officer, Pedro Bizarro, was invited to share an update on the current status of the 9 month-old project....
