Filipa Rocha
PhD Student
Filipa Rocha holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Lisbon with Tiago Guerreiro and Hugo Nicolau as advisors.
Her Ph.D. is focused on improving technology accessibility for children with visual impairments. The work is mainly focused on developing coding environments that promote collaborative work between mixed-visual ability children while training computational thinking skills.
Publications
Ana Pires, Lúcia Abreu, Filipa Rocha, Hugo Simão, João Guerreiro, Tiago Guerreiro, Hugo Nicolau
IDC 2023 ‑ ACM Interaction Design and Children, June, 2023
Filipa Rocha, Filipa Correia, Isabel Neto, Ana Pires, João Guerreiro, Tiago Guerreiro, Hugo Nicolau
CHI 2023 ‑ ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April, 2023
Marta Carvalho, Filipa Rocha, João Guerreiro, Hugo Nicolau, Tiago Guerreiro, Ana Pires
ACM IDC Workshops 2022 ‑ Co-designing with Mixed-ability Groups of Children to Promote Inclusive Education, 2022
Filipa Rocha, Guilherme Guimarães, David Gonçalves, Ana Cristina Pires, Lúcia Abreu, Tiago Guerreiro
ASSETS 2021 ‑ ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Filipa Rocha, Ana Pires, Isabel Neto, Hugo Nicolau, Tiago Guerreiro
IDC 2021 ‑ ACM Interaction Design and Children, June, 2021