The countdown for #DIS2025 has officially started 🎉 Call for Papers and Pictorials are now live on our website dis.acm.org/2025/ Abstracts are due on the 13th of January and full submissions on the 20th of January. Looking forward to all of your exciting works!

Full house for Kathrin Gerling's talk at LASIGE Tech&People Lab @ ULisboa CIÊNCIAS ULisboa! A full day for Kathrin with back to back meetings and presentations, and a pleasure for us to host her. Almost made us forget about #chi2025 reviews and #USAElection2024.

Pedro Ferreira da CIÊNCIAS ULisboa participa no projeto SATO com o objetivo de desenvolver uma plataforma de apoio à avaliação do desempenho energético de edifícios. buff.ly/3YBVzyR #90SegundosCiência

João Guerreiro da CIÊNCIAS ULisboa quer tornar a realidade virtual acessível para pessoas cegas. buff.ly/4fORzSG #90SegundosCiência

Black Friday é bom dia para lembrar onde vão parar as toneladas de roupa que são descartadas por todo o mundo. No Chile há um deserto inundado com as nossas roupas, é uma reportagem fotográfica do Francisco Nunes, para ver e ler no sítio do costume: shifter.pt/deserto-vestid…

Fica o convite para se juntarem a nós, agora pela voz da Carolina Franco, que conduzirá a conversa e apresentação da revista. Na sessão teremos também a revista para venda com um preço promocional para quem ainda não adquiriu o seu exemplar. Sabe mais: shifter.pt/evento/apresen…

Google Blockly and Micro:bit Educational Foundation recently teamed up at our Accessibility Discovery Centre to improve coding education for students with visual impairments and dexterity differences. #IDPWD Learn more about Blockly's accessibility work → g.co/dev/blockly-ac…

Excited to share our workshop was accepted at #CHI2025: Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and for submissions of interest check out: dcitizens.eu/access-inconte…

The call for papers for all tracks at #IDC2025 are out with first deadlines approaching January 21st. Please visit idc.acm.org/2025/cfp for more info about the individual calls!

Last week, our reading club focused on Braun and Clarke's 2024 paper on "Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach", doi.org/10.1080/147808… - a lot of discussions, insights, and clarity. David Gonçalves took the lead on this one and did a wonderful job.

Women represent 22.4% of inventors in chemistry 🧪 but only 5.2% in mechanical engineering. ⚙️ How can we close the gender gap across all fields? Explore the #EPOStudy: link.epo.org/web/womens_par… #WomenInSTEM #GenderEquality

Our annual strategy meeting took place last week with a morning full of discussions, retrospection, planning, and optimism; and an afternoon dedicated to presentations by junior researchers - techandpeople.github.io LASIGE @FC_UL

📢The DCitizens Seminar Series is delighted to be hosting Dani Kalarikalayil Raju for an online talk on: 'Co-designing voice-based interaction use cases for unwritten languages in India'! 📷January 28th 11am BST Register: forms.office.com/e/heHHZnjDiU European Union #DigitalCivics #HCI

Your plans versus reality. #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc

Por ocasião do Dia Mundial do Cancro, que se assinala a 4 de fevereiro, o EuropeanPatentOffice publicou hoje o segundo estudo sobre as tecnologias relacionadas com o cancro. Portugal ocupa o 19º lugar no que diz respeito ao número de patentes europeias dedicadas ao combate ao cancro.

Announcing ASSETS 2025 Call for Papers and Mentoring. Technical papers are due April 16, experience reports on June 11, posters and demos on June 25, and the DC is due June 25. If you are new to ASSETS, you can also receive mentorship. Details at  assets25.sigaccess.org Pls RT

We are excited to welcome Isabel Neto as an incoming tenure-track assistant professor at CIÊNCIAS ULisboa and to our group Tech&People Lab @ ULisboa LASIGE! She will bring the work on inclusive #HRI and #humancenteredAI to new heights. techandpeople.github.io/team/

Two days left to submit your position paper to our #CHI2025 workshop on future of accessible prototyping! Send your position paper or any inquiry to: [email protected] with the subject line 'Access InContext: CHI 2025' Looking forward to seeing you there ✨

I am happy that our journal paper entitled 'Limitations in speech recognition for young adults with down syndrome' has been recently published in UAIS. Check it at: rdcu.be/d92qX Franceli Linney Cibrian 🇲🇽

🚨 Preprint of our #cscw2025 paper on "Exploring Collaboration in Programming Activities with Children with Visual Impairments: a 10-Session Study in a School Setting" is now available at techandpeople.github.io/publications/ Filipa Rocha David Gonçalves AnaCPires Tiago Guerreiro ⚔️ LASIGE