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E-mail: simone@inf.puc-rio.br
Office: 410 RDC
Current position: Associate professor
Main research area: Human-Computer Interaction
Research group: SERG
R&D Lab: IDEIAS

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Short Bio

Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa has a degree in Electronics Engineering from PUC-Rio, where she also obtained her M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in Computer Science. Her professional experience includes several years of consultancy in HCI and software design and development of commercial applications and web sites, as well as training and education. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as Associate Researcher at Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In 2001, she joined the faculty at the Informatics Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, and does research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), as seen from a Semiotic Engineering perspective.

Level 2 researcher in CNPq, her current research interests involve: model-based interactive systems design; bridging HCI and software engineering; digital storytelling, increasing the quality of use (e.g. usability, communicability, accessibility) of interactive systems in diverse domains, by means of adaptation, analogy-making mechanisms, and other artificial intelligence techniques.

From 2005-2009, Prof. Barbosa was the head of the Semiotic Engineering Research Group laboratory. In 2010, she founded the IDEIAS lab. She was program co-chair of the first Latin-American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2003; late-breaking results co-chair for the main ACM conference on HCI, CHI 2005; general co-chair of IFIP TC 13's HCI conference, INTERACT 2007, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; panels co-chair for CHI 2011; and general co-chair of ACM SIGCHI's EICS 2012, held in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is late-breaking results co-chair for EICS 2013, in London; tutorial co-chair for EICS 2014, in Rome; and program co-chair of INTERACT 2015, in Bamberg, Germany.

She has been the Brazilian Computer Society's representative in IFIP TC 13 since 2008. In 2009 she has joined the Editorial Board of Elsevier's Interacting with Computers. In 2011 she joined the Advisory Board of IxD&A and the Education Commission of the Brazilian Computer Society. In 2012 she joined the editorial board of Springer's HCI and CCIS Series.

For more detailed information, please visit my Lattes CV.