Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute is proud to be hosting ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction 2011 between Jan 24th and Jan 26th 2011. Check the conference website for information as it emerges.

MHCI capstone project presentations took place on 14th December 2009. Three teams of students worked from January to December with three leading companies: Portugal Telecom/Sapo, Critical Software and Promosoft. Get a glimpse of the students work over the past year below:

Applications are invited for a research assistant position funded under the Carnegie Mellon - Portugal partnership (http://www.cmuportugal.org), to work on the project entitled Web Security and Privacy (http://wesp.cmuportugal.org).  This post is part of a multidisciplinary research program involving the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Lab:USE at the University of Madeira, the University of Minho, Instituto Superior Tecnico, and Portugal Telecom.

The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Madeira-ITI) is dedicated to research and education in the area of computer science and human-computer interaction. The institute is founded by the University of Madeira, Madeira Tecnopolo, and Carnegie Mellon University.

The institute offers two master programs:

• The Master of Informatics Engineering, a Bolonha-style MSc degree awarded by the University of Madeira;
• The Professional Master of Human-Computer Interaction, a dual degree awarded by both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Madeira.

Faculty of the institute also teach in the Bachelor programs for Interactive Media Design (LDMI) and Computer Science (LEI).