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Manuel Piçarra

PhD Student

I completed my BSc in Audiovisual And Multimedia in 2015. Worked a few years in Television and later pursued MSc on Informatics, which I’m currently finishing. My MSc thesis involves the investigation of the challenges that blind people experience when using virtual environments and the testing of techniques to help them navigate independently in these environments.

Publications

Designing and Evaluating a VR Boxing Experience with Blind People

Diogo Furtado, Renato Alexandre Ribeiro, Manuel Piçarra, Letícia Seixas Pereira, Carlos Duarte, André Rodrigues, João Guerreiro

CHI 2025 ‑ ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May, 2025

Exploring Aiming Techniques for Blind People in Virtual Reality

João Mendes, Manuel Piçarra, Inês Gonçalves, André Rodrigues, João Guerreiro

IEEE TVCG / VR 2025 ‑ IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (presentation at IEEE VR)

Speed-of-Light VR for Blind People: Conveying the Location of Arm-Reach Targets

Diogo Lança, Manuel Piçarra, Inês Gonçalves, Uran Oh, André Rodrigues, João Guerreiro

ASSETS 2024 ‑ 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Investigating Virtual Reality Locomotion Techniques with Blind People

Renato Alexandre Ribeiro, Inês Gonçalves, Manuel Piçarra, Letícia Seixas Pereira, Carlos Duarte, André Rodrigues, João Guerreiro

CHI 2024 ‑ ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May, 2024

A Living Framework for Understanding Cooperative Games

Pedro Pais, David Gonçalves, Daniel Reis, João Godinho, João Morais, Manuel Piçarra, Pedro Trindade, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Kathrin Gerling, João Guerreiro, André Rodrigues

CHI 2024 ‑ ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May, 2024

Projects