About Me

I am a fourth year PhD Student at LASIGE, Universidade de Lisboa with the topic Facilitating Smartphone Use for Blind People through a Human-Powered Approach. My PhD research has been mostly focused on mobile accessibility working closely with visually impaired people.

My PhD advisors are Prof. Tiago Guerreiro from LASIGE at Universidade de Lisboa and Prof. Kyle Montague from Open Lab at Newcastle University. I have also been lucky enough to often collaborate with Prof. Hugo Nicolau from INESC-ID at Universidade de Lisboa and Postdoctoral Fellow João Guerreiro at Carnegie Mellon University.

In 2016 I spent three months abroad at Open Lab where new projects and collaborations spawned that are still ongoing.

During my MSc in 2014 I was working with people with multiple impairements for my dissertation on mobile system wide assistive technology.

Getting involved

I have also dedicated my time to variety of projects, such as: using robots to help visually impaired people; IoT care homes for people with motor-impairments; finding inaccessible people in natural disasters; creating new communication channels for people who are homeless.

Get in Touch

afrodrigues@fc.ul.pt