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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 Pereira Campos is Full Professor of Computer Engineering and Interactive Media Design at the University of Madeira, with a highly distinguished scientific and academic career in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive Media, Computer Engineering, and Interaction Design. Throughout his scientific activity, he has supervised 7 doctoral theses and 6 postdoctoral theses, and is currently supervising 5 doctoral theses and 3 postdoctoral theses. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 60 master's dissertations at the Universities of Madeira and Lisbon, as well as 15 scientific projects and 1 science and technology management grant.
His scientific output exceeds 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is also the co-author of "Introduction to Interface Design" (FCA), a reference work in Portuguese in the areas of interface design and Human-Computer Interaction. At the same time, he held positions of high scientific responsibility, having been vice president for scientific affairs at ITI - Institute of Interactive Technologies, a unit integrated into the LARSYS associated laboratory, classified as Excellent by the FCT. He was a visiting researcher at Aalto University in Finland and in the VIMMI group at INESC-ID in Lisbon.

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