Apresentação Pessoal

Vítor Carvalho pursues his professional activity in the Development and Innovation Unit, Information Systems area of UPdigital and is an Assistant Lecturer at Facuty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

At the same time, he is part of the teams:

• Porto4Ageing (Center for Excellence in Active and Healthy Aging of Porto);
• Laboratory for Inclusion and Multimodality of Media Innovation Labs of U.Porto;
• Project PLACES - Accessibility Platform of U.Porto.

He is a PhD student in Digital Media at University of Porto. He has a Master in Multimedia and a Master in Mechanical Engineering from the same University.

His research interests are focused on accessibility and usability, which converged in his MSc thesis in Multimedia entitled "Converting SVG images to Text and Speech" (2014).

Within Mechanical Engineering, has particular interest in ecodesign and life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools. In this context, is the author of a MSc thesis in Mechanical Engineering entitled "FRED - Ferramenta para Relatórios de EcoDesign" (FRED - Reporting Tool for EcoDesign) (2009).