INESC TEC Researcher | UTAD Professor
Access to technology by disabled and elderly people is a major issue in allowing their integration in society. Designing products that can be used by people with a wide range of abilities and disabilities, is a requirement in the years to come.
Solving the difficult artificial intelligence problems through human power. Reverse the roles: the computer asks a person or a large group of people to solve a problem, then collects, interprets, and integrates their solutions.
Design, evaluate and implement interactive computing systems for human use and study of major phenomena surrounding them.
Working with each other to do a task and to achieve shared goals. Understand characteristics of group work with the objective of designing adequate computer-based technology to support such collaboration.
Hugo Paredes received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minho, Portugal. Since 2003, he has been with the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, where he is currently Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the field of Human Computer Interaction: Universal Access, Human Computation and Collaboration. He has authored or coauthored more than 60 refereed journal and conference papers and participated in several national and international research projects.
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Since 2003, Hugo Paredes has been with the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, where he is currently Assistant Professor lecturing on systems integration and distributed systems.
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