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E-mail: simone@inf.puc-rio.br
Office: 410 RDC
Current position:Assistant professor
Academic degree: D.Sc., Informatics, PUC-Rio, 1999
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction (+ Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering)
Research group: SERG

Short Bio

Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa has a degree in Electronics Engineering from PUC-Rio, where she also obtained her M.Sc. and Ph.D. 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 Informatics Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) as Assistant Professor, 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; 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; and HCI applied to interactive digital TV.

From 2005-2009, Prof. Barbosa was the head of the Semiotic Engineering Research Group laboratory. 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, and general co-chair of IFIP TC 13's HCI conference, INTERACT 2007, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008 she has been appointed as the Brazilian representative in IFIP TC 13. In 2009 she has joined the Editorial Board for Elsevier's Interacting with Computers.

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