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Filipa Brito

Research Associate

Filipa Brito is a neuropsychologist and a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon. Her thesis is focused on developing ecologically valid digital platforms to promote cognitive functions and functional capacity in older adults. Currently, she is a research assistant at LASIGE Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, where she has been developing work on personalized-VR environments for mental healthcare interventions. Furthermore, her research interests include mhealth and ehealth, digital literacy promotion and patient-centred design of digital solutions to promote health-related outcomes.

Publications

Crafting Virtual Realities: Designing a VR End-User Authoring Platform for Personalised Exposure Therapy

João P. Ferreira, Filipa Ferreira-Brito, João Guerreiro, Tiago Guerreiro

ISMAR 2024 ‑ 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

Digital health and patient adherence: A qualitative study with older adults

Filipa Ferreira-Brito, Sérgio Alves, Tiago Guerreiro, Osvaldo Santos, Cátia Caneiras, Luís Carriço, Ana Verdelho

Digital Health 2024 ‑ DH 2024

Challenges of digital healthcare service adoption by [us] the next generation of Older Adults

Filipa Ferreira-Brito

CHI Workshop 2023 ‑ Bridging HCI and Implementation Science for Innovation Adoption and Public Health Impact Workshop at CHI, April, 2023

VR4Health: Workshop on Virtual Reality for Health and Wellbeing

Filipa Brito, Hristijan Gjoreski, Oscar Mayora, Mitja Luštrek, Emilija Kizhevska, João Guerreiro, Kathrin Gerling, Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Tiago Guerreiro

VR4Health 2022 ‑ Workshop on Virtual Reality for Health and Wellbeing at MUM 2022

Using VR and Sensors for Anxiety with Children and Adolescents

João Ferreira, Filipa Brito, João Guerreiro, Tiago Guerreiro

VR4Health 2022 ‑ Workshop on Virtual Reality for Health and Wellbeing at MUM 2022

Projects