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<aside> 👋 I am based in Tecnico at the TTC@ULisboa Campus in Lisbon. I reply promptly to e-mails (nunojnunes(at)tecnico.ulisboa.pt), so if you need to contact me, e-mail me. I rarely answer my office phone numbers. Address: Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, TTC, Office 1.14, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal.

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Nuno Jardim Nunes, Ph.D. is a Full professor at Tecnico U. Lisbon and the President of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) a research unit part of the LARSYS Associated Laboratory. He's also affiliated faculty at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Nuno was the main proponent of the Bauhaus of the Seas vision and Manifesto for the New European Bauhaus.

He occasionally writes in the media (in Portuguese) about general topics related to people and technology. Here are some articles from Expresso about AI “IA a Nova Máscara do Poder” and “A IA e o desafio da produtividade” and the "Manifesto para uma Bauhaus Digital em Portugal" and several of articles from Publico on AI “O ChatGPT ou como “a melhor forma de prever o futuro é inventá-lo”, and COVID-19 Apps "Sobre as apps Covid", "Sobre as apps covid: "La technologie est la société rendue durable" and also on ionline on "Covid-19 e a prototipagem rápida de políticas públicas".

Nuno Jardim Nunes holds an habilitation from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, a Ph.D in Software Engineering from U. Madeira under supervision from Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, and a MEng in informatics and computer engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST). Previously he was Director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal international partnership, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering of IST, non-executive Member of the Board of the Regional Agency for Research,Technological Development and Innovation (ARDITI) and Vice-Rector of the University of Madeira and Head of the Exact and Engineering Sciences Dep. at U. Madeira. He edited 15 books on HCI and SE and authored more than 190 international publications in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals. Nuno had leading roles in the organisation of several HCI conferences, including DIS’2025, ITS'2015, TEI’2011, Interact'2011, DSV-IS’2003 (now EICS), IUI/CADUI’2004, UML’2004 (now Models), CAiSE’2004, ECCE’2008, Service Design’2009, among others. He was the PI and Co-PI of several research projects totalling more than 30M€ from FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe and ITEA to nationally and industry-funded research projects, including two ERAChair Widening projects in the areas of Design and HCI.

Nuno is a member of the ACM, SIGCHI and the Portuguese Board of Engineers.

Research Team

This is my amazing research team at Tecnico - U. Lisbon if you're interested in pursuing a PhD or Master thesis please contact me and I will forward potential ideas and research topics.

Current Post-Docs and Students

Post-Docs

Cristiano Roussado (BoSS)

Frederico Duarte (BoSS)

PhD Students

• André Barrocas (with Nik Martelaro), PhD Candidate in CSE, IST, U. Lisboa, 2025.
• Beste Soybilge (with Valentina Nisi and Sarah Fox), PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST, U. Lisboa, 2025.
• Fábio de Almeida (with Sónia Rafael), Designing Data Assemblages: More-than-human Speculative Data Practices Empowering Local Governance, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisboa, 2025
• Alexandre Cardoso (with Miguel Correia), Blockchain - assets tokenization for collateralization, PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, IST U. Lisboa, 2024.
• Bernardo Gaeiras (with Miguel Carvalhais), , PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisbon, 2023.
• Joana Pestana (with Miguel Carvalhais), Ways of designing with and about artificial intelligence: cases, protocols and critical approaches, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, FBA U. Porto, 2023.
• Mathilde Gouin (with Valentina Nisi), Local Futures: a Novel Transmedia Strategy to Develop Space-Based Community Lead and Immerse Futures, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisboa, 2024.
• Ziqi Huang (with Manuel Lopes and Mayank Goel), Acoustic Soundscapes of Shorelines, PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, IST U. Lisboa, 2023.
• Katerina Inglezaki (with Mariana Pestana), Performative Tagus: Landscape as infrastructure for the more-than-human ecological integrity of the Tagus estuary, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisboa, 2023.
• Valentina Demarchi (with Valentina Nisi), Infrastructuring “blue ecomakerspaces”: from ocean literacy to ocean tinkering?, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisboa, 2023.
• Beatrice Maggipinto (with Valentina Nisi and Jessica Hammer), Designing VR Embodied Experiences of the Seas, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisboa and Carnegie Mellon University, 2022.
• Shuhao Ma (with Valentina Nisi and John Zimmerman), Gig Work Centered Design, PhD Candidate in Digital Media, IST U. Lisboa, 2021.
• Anthony Faustine, (with Lucas Pereira), Robust Machine Learning for Low-Voltage Distribution Network with High Penetration of Renewable Energy Generation, PhD Candidate in CSE, IST U. Lisboa, 2021.
• Dinarte Vasconcelos, (with João Pedro Gomes), A low-cost, multipurpose device to monitor and control insect densities: sensor, dataset and techniques, PhD Candidate in ECE, Tecnico - Lisbon, 2018.

News

Under the "drop, ripple, wave metaphor", of Canal180 My interview with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer about the Zoöp model, a novel organizational model for cooperation between human and non-human life that safeguards the interests of all zoë (Greek for ‘life’). Check also the paper: Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans. Futures, 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVIZQ6sjPBA

Best moments of the inauguration of ITIs new space at Hub Criativo do Beato.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiUpVgToLA

Recent Papers

I regularly publish in HCI conferences and journals and sometimes in applied areas such as energy and sustainability. Check some of the most recent papers here and a full list on the publications section.

• Katerina Inglezaki, Mariana Pestana, and Nuno Jardim Nunes, A tidalectic reading of landscapes: Multispecies peripatetic ethnography as a method for knowing landscapes, DIS '25, https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735444

  

• Shuhao Ma, Zhiming Liu, Valentina Nisi, Sarah E Fox, and Nuno Jardim Nunes, Speculative Job Design: Probing Alternative Opportunities for Gig Workers in an Automated Future, CHI '25 https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713885

  

• Mathilde Gouin, Nuno Jardim Nunes, and Valentina Nisi. 2025. Critter Connect, wearable design for place-based & multisensory species encounters. DIS '25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735426

  

• Beatrice Maggipinto, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Jessica Hammer, Yanick Trindade, and Valentina Nisi, **Diving into the Abyss: Exploring Deep Sea Connection and Curiosity through Virtual Reality,** CHI '25, https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713833

  

• Pedroso-Roussado, C., Kuitenbrouwer, K., Fearns, V., Pestana, M., Nisi, V., Light, A., & Nunes, N. J. (2025). Zoöp Futures: Towards an organisational framework for ecological cooperation between humans and more-than-humans. Futures, 169, 103584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103584

  

• Calisto, F. M., Abrantes, J. M., Santiago, C., Nunes, N. J., & Nascimento, J. C. (2025). Personalized explanations for clinician-AI interaction in breast imaging diagnosis by adapting communication to expertise levels. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 103444.

  

• Nicholas Torreta et al, Navigating Problematic Bauhaus Inheritances: Critiques, Implications, and Questions from the Bauhaus of the Seas NEB Lighthouse, Design Issues 40(3), Summer 2024

  

• Nuno Jardim Nunes et al, The Bauhaus of the Seas: A Manifesto for the New European Bauhaus, Design Issues 40(2), Spring 2024

  

• Mencarini et al, Imagining Sustainable Futures: Expanding the Discussion on Sustainable HCI, ACM Interactions 31(2), 2024

  

• Bala et al, **Stories as Boundary Objects: Digital Storytelling with Migrant Communities for Heritage Discourses, CSCW, 2024.**

• Nisi et al, Connected to the people": Social Inclusion & Cohesion in Action through a Cultural Heritage Digital Tool, CSCW, 2023.

• Ferreira et al, Interactions with Climate Change: a Data Humanism Design Approach, DIS, 2023.

• Ma et al, Uncovering Gig Worker-Centered Design Opportunities in Food Delivery Work, DIS, 2023.

Recent Talks and Keynotes

Here are some recent talks, mostly about the Bauhaus of the Seas but more recently also about AI adoption.

World Usability Day - Portugal

Designa 2024

DESIGNA 2024 + CITIZENSHIP, International Conference on Design Research, 24 and 25th October . FAL—UBI . Covilhã . Portugal

Sonar+D (2022) on the Bauhaus of the Seas

https://youtu.be/FuKxge0rAmI?si=e_TLXRoeJMk2PQ46

Bauhaus of the Seas Vision (2022)

https://youtu.be/ujYu4QMzVGY

Keynote GoodTech (2020)

https://youtu.be/JO98ylz7d-U