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André Rodrigues

PostDoc Researcher

I received my PhD with distinction and honour in 2020 with the topic Human-Powered Smartphone Assistance for Blind People. The last six years have been dedicated to developing and evaluating mobile services, applications and platforms for a variety of contexts and user groups (e.g. people with visual and/or motor impairments, people experiencing homelessness). I am an HCI researcher with a particular interest in how technology can and is leveraged in accessibility, health and gaming. I currently serve as SIGACCESS Newsletter editor.

Publications

Investigating the Tradeoffs of Everyday Text-Entry Collection Methods

André Rodrigues, Hugo Nicolau, André Santos, Diogo Branco, Jay Rainey, David Verweij, Jan Smeddinck, Kyle Montague, Tiago Guerreiro

CHI 2022 ‑ ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May, 2022

Using Games to Practice Screen Reader Gestures

Gonçalo Lobo, David Gonçalves, Pedro Pais, Tiago Guerreiro, André Rodrigues

ASSETS 2021 ‑ ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Promoting Self-Efficacy Through an Effective Human-Powered Nonvisual Smartphone Task Assistant

André Rodrigues, André Santos, Kyle Montague, Tiago Guerreiro

CSCW 2021 ‑ ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, October, 2021

WildKey: A Privacy-Aware Keyboard Toolkit for Data Collection In-The-Wild

André Rodrigues, André Santos, Kyle Montague, Hugo Nicolau, Tiago Guerreiro

WildByDesign 2021 ‑ UbiComp/ISWC Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Technologies for Challenging Environments

Wild by Design: Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Health Monitoring Technologies for Challenging Environments

Diogo Branco, Patrick Carrington, Silvia Del Din, Afsaneh Doryab, Hristijan Gjoreski, Tiago Guerreiro, Roisin McNaney, Kyle Montague, Alisha Pradhan, André Rodrigues, Julio Vega

Wild by Design 2021 ‑ Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous HealthMonitoring Technologies for Challenging Environments at Ubicomp 2021

Projects

A keyboard scheme with dots representing each of the collected touch points. Each key as dots from a different color. There is a concentration of dots on the most used keys (e.g. a, s and space)

Accessible Text-Entry

For over 10 years we have investigated nonvisual text input on touchscreens. We have characterized in dept users’ behaviors and contributed with novel interfaces and interaction techniques.