I have supervised around 60 Theses over the years. Scroll down for more information on my previous and current students and their theses.
Information Systems and Computer Engineering PhD at IST:
– Tomás Alves, with the thesis “PerGUID: Personality-Based Graphical User Interface Design Guidelines” (finished; Summa cum Laude)
– Flávia Santos, with the thesis “Cognitive Walkthrough Method Evaluation using Physiological Computing“, in partnership with the University of São Paulo, Brazil (ongoing)
– Bárbara Ramalho, with the thesis “The role of Risk in Information Visualization” (ongoing)
– Duarte Luís de Sousa, with the thesis “The Use of Interactive Technologies for Education“, in partnership with Universidade da Madeira and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (ongoing)
Information Systems and Computer Engineering MsC at IST:
2023/2024
– Alexandre Torrinha, with the thesis “Digital Twin – Centro de distribuição 4.0”, collaboration with DEG, IST and Jerónimo Martins (ongoing)
– Aurora Nora, with the thesis “Evaluating Human-Chatbot Interaction” (ongoing)
– Bernardo Teixeira, with the thesis “Digital Twin – Centro de distribuição 4.0”, collaboration with DEG, IST and Jerónimo Martins (ongoing)
– Camila Bertelli, with the thesis “Body & Soul: Designing a groundbreaking solution for Historical research”, collaboration with Centro de História da Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa (ongoing)
– Maria Campos, with the thesis “Predicting the Anchoring Bias in Information Visualization Through Cognitive Abilities” (ongoing)
– Marta Vicente, with the thesis “iPROLEPSIS UI: Psoriatic Arthritis Inflammation: a novel Personalised Digital Care Ecosystem”, collaboration with Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, ULisboa (ongoing)
– Hugo Escobar, with the thesis “iPROLEPSIS: Psoriatic Arthritis Inflammation explained through multi-source Data Analysis guiding a novel Personalised Digital Care Ecosystem”, collaboration with Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, ULisboa (ongoing)
– Sofia Morgado, with the thesis “AI-powered Emotion Well Being for everyone”, collaboration with DEEC, IST (ongoing)
– Teresa Correia, with the thesis “Studying Task Difficulty in Information Visualization” (ongoing)
2022/2023
– Carolina Pereira, with the thesis “The Phantom Effect“, with Tomás Alves. Final Grade: 19.
– Maria Ribeiro, with the thesis “Risk in Sentiment Visualization“, with Bárbara Ramalho. Final Grade: 17.
– Tomás Costa, with the thesis “Risk Perception in Sentiment Visualization“, with Bárbara Ramalho. Final Grade: 17.
– Alexandre Rodrigues, with the thesis “The Role of Facial Emotions in Usability Evaluation“, with Flávia Santos. Final Grade: 19.
2021/2022
– Vasco Pires, with the thesis “Studying the distinction cognitive bias in information visualization”. Final grade: 18.
– Gil Lacerda, with the thesis “Visualizing Particle Accelerators“, with CERN (ongoing)
– Tiago Delgado, with the thesis “Studying how personality affects user interaction in high-dimensional data visualization“. Final grade: 20.
– Daniel Gonçalves, with the thesis “Visualization and Interaction with Ticket Data on an Online Platform“, with The Loop co. Final grade: 18.
– Beatriz Feliciano, with the thesis “Increasing Readability of Large Networks Visualizationsnline Platform“, with Feedzai. Final grade: 19.
2020/2021
– Alexandra Maroco, with the thesis “The Effect of Personality on the Framing Bias in Information Visualization”. Final grade: 18.
– Ricardo Velhinho, with the thesis “The Effect of Personality on the Framing Bias in Information Visualization”. Final grade: 20.
– Carlota Dias, with the thesis “MisTrust Vis: The Effect of Personality on Data Trustworthiness”. FInal grade: 19.
– Diogo Loureiro, with the thesis “Web Biosppy++”. Final grade: 16.
– Pedro Soares, with the thesis “Tales of Fear – A Tailor-Made Horror Game Experience”. Final grade: 19.
2019/2020
– Bárbara Ramalho, with the thesis “Conscientiousness Vis – Visualização Adaptável Consoante a Personalidade”. Final grade: 18.
– Diogo Mestre, with the thesis “FFM e PID-5 Vis – Visualização da Personalidade”. Final grade: 18.
– Rodrigo Oliveira, with the thesis “BioSPPy Web Application – Aplicação para sinais neurofisiológicos”. Final grade: 19.
– Sara Franco, with the thesis “GroupSensing – Influência do fator grupo em respostas sensoriais”. Final grade: 18.
2018/2019
– Jéssica Veiga (Co-supervisor), with the thesis “As legendas de filmes ao serviço do Processamento da Língua Natural”. Final grade: 18.
– Tiago Campos, with the thesis “Website analysis: Finding Fraud Patterns in Websites”. Final grade: 17.
– Beatriz Grilo, with the thesis “VIZInteraction – Visualizing Psychophysiological Responses to Interfaces”. Final grade: 16.
– Carolina Inês Xavier, with the thesis “InterfaceTrainer – A Personal Assistant to Help with User Frustration”. Final grade: 19.
– Daniel Nunes, with the thesis “Consciousness-Based Adaptive Interfaces”. Final grade: 18.
– Filipa Costa (Co-supervisor), with the thesis “Studying color blending for Information Visualization”. Final grade: 17.
2017/2018
– Joana Natálio, with the thesis “Beyond the halo effect: using biosignals to differentiate aesthetics and usability”. Final grade: 19.
– Miguel Cruz, with the thesis “Visualização da Distribuição de Espécies”. Final grade: 18.
– Yuliya Plotka, with the thesis “BrainVis: Visualizing Brain Connectivity”. Final grade: 15.
2016/2017
– Adriana Domingos, with the thesis “FoodVis – Visualizing Nutritional Information”. Final grade: 18.
– Daniel Rocha with the thesis “NeuroExplore – Visualizing Brain Patterns”. Final grade: 18.
– Filipe Morgado, with the thesis “Visualizing Usability”. Final grade: 17.
– Gustavo Passos (Co-supervised), with the thesis “Health Alert Dashboard Final”. grade: 13.
– Inês Santos (Co-supervised), with the thesis “CogniHue: Studying the cognitive effect of color in HCI”. Final grade: 18.
– Joana Condeço (Co-supervised), with the thesis “ColorCode – Exploring Social and Psychological Dimensions of Color”. Final grade: 18.
– João Moura (Co-supervisor), with the thesis “Visualizing Dam Behavior”. Final grade: 17.
– Manuel Alves (Co-supervised), with the thesis “EconoVis – Visualizing Economic Trends in a Modern World”. Final grade: 17.
– Margarida Correia (Co-supervisor), with the thesis “A personal fashion adviser application with social and infovis component”. Final grade: 17.
– Miguel Santos, with the thesis “Brainiac – Graph-Based Literature Visualization”. Final grade: 17.
– Pedro Silva, with the thesis “ConnectoMotion – Connectomic Graph Navigation and Exploration”. Final grade: 16.
– Susana Guerreiro (Co-supervisor), with the thesis “The ultimate capsule 333: merging vision and language into an app that helps you to choose what to dress”. Final grade: 17.
– Tomás Alves, with the thesis “BrainBIT”. Final grade: 19.
2015/2016
– Paulo Garcia (Co-supervisor), with the thesis “Will it Blend”. Final grade: 18.
– Tiago Nascimento, with the thesis “FishEye”. Final grade: Final grade: 17.
– Tiago Martins (Co-supervisor) with the thesis “TecnicoVis”. Final grade: 18.
– Francisco Nunes (Co-supervised) with the thesis “Dental Medicine Cross Pathology Visualization”. Final grade: 18.
– Filipe Silva (Co-supervised) with the thesis “Visualizing Disease-Related Patterns”. Final grade: 17.
2012/2013
– Vilma Jordão (Co-supervisor) with the dissertation “EduVis”. Final grade: 18.
2009/2010
– Paulo Gomes (Co-supervisor) with the dissertation “VisMe”. Final grade: 18.
(past) Information Systems MsC at ISTEC:
2021/2022
– Gustavo Barradas, with the thesis “Gamificação aplicada a Gestão de Projetos e Metodologias Ágeis para Equipas de Desenvolvimento“. Final Grade: 17.
– Tiago Aguiar, with the thesis “Gamificação da Educação“. Final Grade: 18.
– Viktoriya Limonova, with the thesis “Gamificação e Análise do Comportamento através da Eletroencefalografia“. Final Grade: 19.
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