PhD Lucía Vilela Leite Filgueiras

Lucia Filgueiras has graduated as Electronic Engineer in 1983 and has a PhD in Electrical Engineer from Escola Politecnica, University of São Paulo in 1996. After her graduation, she has worked as an engineer in the industrial process control industry, where she designed interfaces for process automation. In 1990, she joined University of Sao Paulo as part time professor while keeping her activities as human-computer interface designer and usability consultant.

As a professor, she teaches human-computer interaction and software engineering in Escola Politecnica Computer Engeneering Department. As a researcher, her interests are human-computer interaction, usability and human reliability. Her master thesis addressed human-computer interaction in process control systems, in 1986; her PhD thesis addressed the design of critical systems human-computer interfaces based on human reliability theory and usability engineering. Presently, she leads a research group in Escola Politecnica (http://lts-i.pcs.usp.br ) that focuses electronic government, crossmedial interaction and digital inclusion. She has tutored 20 master thesis and 5 doctoral thesis. Presently she is working on a research project funded by Microsoft Research and FAPESP, the Sao Paulo State Research funding agency, to develop a framework for development of crossmedial government services. Her 2010 research interest is the application of interactive technology to occupational therapy.

As a consultant, she has led several projects with private and governmental institutions, mainly:

• the Brazilian Navy, where she designed the human computer interface of propulsion and damage subsystems;
• the Federal Court of Brazilian 3rd Region, in which she performed a large task analysis activity and designed automation of administrative procedures, as well as implanted a software acquisition quality systems;
• Poupatempo, where she designed and installed a usability laboratory and its processes for evaluating usability of e-government systems;
• Fundação CPqD’s STID, in which she developed usability analysis of prototypes for digital inclusion of people with disabilities and low literacy;
• Positivo Informatica and Bradesco/Scopus, for which she has developed strategic plans for UX.
  

She has founded the UPA Brazilian Chapter in 2005 and is now UPA Regional Coordinator for Latin America. She is also member of the Executive Committee for Human-Computer Interaction of SBC – Brazilian Computing Society.

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