Would you like to interact with our unique research prototypes?

This is your lucky day!! This week M-ITI has open doors. Anyone can visit our labs and check what we are doing. We will have a couple of demos and presentations.

 - Wednesday, May 16th, 9pm: Openning concert

 - Thursday, May 17th, from 12am to 6pm: Interactive music & art, unique prototype demos and games

 - Friday, May 18th, from 10am to 5pm: Capstone project presentation and opening of the "eco-marino" interactive exhibitionon Whale Museum

 

M-ITI will be strongly represented in DIS 2012

M-ITI will be strongly represented in DIS 2012 with:

M-ITI Seminars

Madeira-ITI organises seminars and invited talks in the areas of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction.

Internal Research Presentation

Jorge Teixeira
4 May, 2012 - 16:00

Title:  Designing Services with Model-based Methods

Madeira ITI on Engadget and ZDNet

Madeira ITI research on the design of observation resistant non-visual passwords featured on Engadget and ZDNet. The work, a collaboration between Andrea Bianchi and Dong Soo Kwon of KAIST, South Korea and Ian Oakley of M-ITI, looks at how password entry can be made more safe by using vibration and sound - information that is inherently immune to visual observation. For more information, read the articles or check out the video:

M-ITI in local newspaper - Ambassador Allan Katz visiting UMa/M-ITI

Embaixador equaciona mais parcerias com a Região Autónoma da Madeira, in Jornal da Madeira.

Events in HCI and CS

24 January, 2011 - 26 January, 2011

TEI, the conference of ACM on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, is about HCI, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing...

29 November, 2010 - 3 December, 2010

Participation is the complex, contested, changing, creative and celebratory core of participatory design. The theme calls us to explore the current and emerging equivalents to the pioneering...

21 November, 2010 - 26 November, 2010

ComputationWorld 2010 is a federated event focusing on advances topics concerning computation as it relates to different aspects of technology. ComputationWorld 2010 is now on its second edition...

Recent blog posts

On April 1992, Mary Jo Bitner published, in the Journal of Marketing, an article entitled: "Servicespaces: The impact of physical surroundings on Costumers and Employees" This is one of the...
My supervisor teased me to read this book, and I'm thankful for that! :) So far it was really worth to do it. Basically the book teach us how to use drawings to solve problems and explain our...
  June 2007. Tim Brown, IDEO CEO, published an article called Design Thinking (Harvard Business Review), available here. Here's what I found more relevant.

Schedules for the spring semester

Classes on the spring semester follow 2 different academic calendars.

The courses that follow M-ITI academic calendar (starting in January 16th) are:

WeTheme on the news

Today was published an article about WeTheme project, in Ciência Hoje.

You can find it here.

Madeira ITI featured in New Scientist

"Haptic code-entry makes PINs a touch harder to steal" - a collaboration between Andrea Bianchi and Dong-soo Kwon at KAIST, South Korea and Ian Oakley at Madeira-ITI features in the 10th December 2011 issue of New Scientist Magazine. The article discusses techniques for unobservable PIN entry at public terminals such as ATMs. Read the full article on the New Scientist website

MET Student wins Best Poster and Best Demo at Videojogos Conference

A group of students from the Masters of Entertainment Technology participated on the Videojogos Conference, in Porto, Portugal, and won the first prize on both demo and poster competitions.

Presentation in Coimbra

M-ITI will do a public presentation of it's academic programs in Coimbra, December 5th, at 14:30, in Pólo II.

Confirm your presense on the event on Facebook.

Applications for MHCI and MET are now open!

Applications for MHCI and MET programs, in dual-degree with Carnegie Mellon University are now open!

Find out more about Professional Masters in Human-Computer Interaction here and about Masters in Entertainment Technology here.

Applications close on January, apply today!

Professional Masters

MHCI student wins the first prize on Yahoo competition

A group of students from the Masters in Human Computer Interaction, participated on the Hack U competition, sponsored by Yahoo, and won the first prize on the competition.

M-ITI on local newspaper and television

On October 25th and 26th Diário de Notícias published two articles about Madeira-ITI.

You can read it here Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese).

The same story was also covered in RTP-Madeira.

You can watch a video about it (minute 21 to 24) in the RTP-Madeira website (in Portuguese).

Carnegie-Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) donates K.I.C.K. (Kids Interactive Creation Kiosk) to Madeira

Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) donated two K.I.C.K.'s - Kids Interactive Creation Kiosks - to the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute of the Universidade da Madeira. One is installed at the Hospital Dr. Nélio de Mendonça in Funchal and one is for the MET program at UMa/MITI.

A team of ETC students working with the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh designed the K.I.C.K. in 2006.

M-ITI in local newspaper

On October 2nd Jornal da Madeira published an article about Madeira-ITI.

You can read it in Jornal da Madeira website (in Portuguese).