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Pedro Filipe Pereira Campos

Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering

Penteada University Campus , Floor 2, Office 2.80

pcampos@staff.uma.pt

(+351) 291 705 287 / 5287

Biographical Notes

Pedro Filipe Campos is Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Computer Engineering Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira, since May 2018. He teaches Programming Usable Interfaces, Software Processes and Metrics, Advanced Research Topics and other curricular units related with Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. He has supervised 5 PhD thesis and 2 Post-Docs. He is currently supervising 7 PhD theses. He also supervised or co-advised >40 MSc theses at the Univ. of Madeira and at Instituto Superior Técnico (Univ. of Lisbon), as well as 6 final degree projects (pre-Bologna) at the Univ. of Madeira. Pedro holds an Habilitation from the University of Aveiro (Feb. 2018), a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Madeira (Oct. 2006), and a BSc and MSc in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (2002, 2003). He is a professional member of the ACM and Eurographics.
Pedro has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers in the fields of HCI (>102 Scopus entries), and has participated in the program committee of more than 50 international conferences, and had leading roles in the organization of more than 28 international conferences, serving as president of the program committee, associate chair, local organizer, posters chair, demos chair and others. He is currently the national delegate to the IFIP's Human-Computer Interaction (TC13), where he is also vice-chair of the 13.6 HWID (Human Work Interaction Design) working group. He co-founded the HWID (Human Work Interaction Design) conference series held every 3 years since 2006, and published by Springer-Verlag. He is Area Editor of the EAI Transactions on Creative Technologies. In 2021 Pedro received the Silver Core Award from IFIP.

Publications

- Bridging Cultural Gaps: Insights from Communication in Migrant-Inclusive Cultural Initiatives, Vanessa Cesário, Pedro Campos, Societies, 2025

- Can Virtual Nature Enhance the Emotional State of Informal Caregivers?, Beatriz Peres, Hildegardo Noronha, Joana Câmara, Daniel S Lopes, Joaquim Jorge, Pedro Campos, Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2025, 2025

- Combining Interactive Narratives and Augmented Reality to Promote Engagement between Children and Nature, Luís Francisco Fernandes, Paulo Bala, Sandra Câmara Olim, Pedro F Campos, Mara Dionisio, Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, 2025

- Creat?AI: Using Tangible Storytelling to Teach AI to Children, Carolina Marçal, Ana Carolina Baptista, Hugo Nicolau, Pedro F Campos, Ana Cristina Pires, Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, 2025

- DreamScape: Fostering Financial Cognition through a Serious Game, Ana Santos, Constança Freitas, Paulo Bala, Pedro F Campos, Mara Dionisio, Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2025

- Effects of Exergaming on Physical Fitness of Youth with Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis, Cíntia França, Sadaf Ashraf, Adilson Marques, Andreas Ihle, Helder Lopes, Pedro Campos, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia, Games for health journal, 2025

- Empowering cultural heritage professionals: designing interactive exhibitions with authoring tools, Vanessa Cesário, João Freitas & Pedro Campos, Museum Management and Curatorship, 2025

- En-join: Speculative LLM Play for Energy Community Engagement and Sustainability Awareness, Luiz Sachser, Andrés Isaza-Giraldo, Anna Jiskrová, Vanessa Cesário, Pedro F Campos, Lucas Pereira, Paulo Bala, ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2025

- Evaluating Mystiria: Insights from a Pilot Study on Intergenerational Collaborative Gameplay for Climate Change Awareness, Joana Spínola, Lígia Gonçalves, Pedro Campos, Mara Dionísio, Paulo Bala, Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, 2025

- Exploring the Potential of Interacting with a Virtual Dog in a Virtual Forest for Well-Being: A Study with Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia, Peres, B., Motti, L., Nobrega, G., Janković, J., Gouveia, D.M., Campos, P., 2025

Academic Qualifications

- PhD in Engenharia Informática, 2006, University of Madeira