Projects

VisDeck

VisDeck is a physical deck of cards that works as a playful design tool for Information Visualization. Most untrained people build visualizations by matching chart types to data. In VisDeck, each card is one decision in the design process: the question you're asking, the kind of data you have, the mark that will represent it, the channel that will encode a value. A port-matching system ensures only correct choices!

Mental Maps of Lisbon

How do different people 'see' and 'use' a city? Does living there vs. commuting, or being young vs old affect your mental image of a city?

Visualizing Educational Datamining Patterns

Are there dependencies between courses? Which are done in sequence? What are the bottlenecks?

Will it Blend?

When mixing two colors, are their relative proportions perceivable? Does it work better for some pairs of colors than for others?

PAELife - Accessible Virtual Keyboard for Seniors

Software keyboards pose challenges and opportunities for senior users. How to tailor them to their needs?

PAELife - Older Adult Performance Using Body Gesture Interaction

Can seniors use the Kinect to interact with body gestures? What gestures work the best?

Metabrain

A tool for automatically extracting data from the Web and visualize it

Troc@s

Helping Autism Spectrum Disorder children to intereact with each other and their teacher in the classroom.

Who Have I Been Talking To?

Visualize you email with an emphasis on who you more often sent/receive messages to/from

VisMe

Explore multiple facets of your Personal Information in an infinitely expanding set of interlocked timelines

Narrative-Based Interfaces for PIM

We're all natural-born storytellers. Tell stories to retrieve your documents and photos!

GameCourse

We gamified a college course and have fine-tuned the game for four years! Students are more engaged and interest has never been higher!

Islands of Red and Green

Comparing the street structure of cities around the world, drawn from OpenStreetMap data.

LIFE Format

Designed for lifelogging, the LIFE format allows you to record all location-based personal information.

PopCulture - Cultural Differences and Wikipedia

How can different language editions of Wikipedia highlight differences between countries, cultures?