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Degrees

2005 - 2009 - PhD in Computer Engineering at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

2003 - 2005 - MSc in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

2003 - 2004 - Post Graduation at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

1999 - 2003 - Degree in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Research and related activities

Resarch Positions

2009 - Present - Research Scientist at the Internet Experiences Group, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, California, USA focusing on:

• Design Methodologies,
• Mobile Augmented Reality
• Context Awareness,
• Ambient Intelligence,
• Usability,
• User Experience,
• Experience Design,
Social Networks
• etc.

2008 - 2009 - Senior Researcher at HCIM (Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia) in LaSIGE (Large Scale Informatics Systems) focusing on:

• Design Methodologies,
• Prototyping Techniques,
• Ubiquitous Computing,
• Pervasive Computing,
• Context Awareness,
• Ambient Intelligence,
• Mobile Usability,
• Mobile Health Systems,
• Accessibility,
• m-learning, etc.

2005 - 2008 - Researcher at HCIM (Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia) in LaSIGE (Large Scale Informatics Systems) focusing on:

• Design Methodologies,
• Prototyping Techniques,
• Ubiquitous Computing,
• Pervasive Computing,
• Context Awareness,
• Ambient Intelligence,
• Mobile Usability,
• Mobile Health Systems,
• m-learning, etc.

2003 - 2005 - Junior Researcher at HCIM (Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia) in LaSIGE (Large Scale Informatics Systems) focusing on:

• e-Health and m-Health
• e-Learning and m-Learning
• Information Systems
• Usability

2002 - 2003 - Team member at HCIM (Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia) in LaSIGE (Large Scale Informatics Systems) developing IS architectures for medical DBs and systems..

Conferences' Organization

• Session Chair – MobileHCI’08 – Amsterdam 2-5 September, 2008
• XATA 2007 - Organizing Committee - Lisbon, 15-16 February, 2007
• ESEC/FSE 2005 - Student Volunteer - Lisbon, 5-9 September 2005
• Interacção 2004 - Organizing Staff - Lisbon, 12-14 July, 2004

Program Committees and Reviewing

• ACM UIST Conference since 2009
• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems since 2006
• ACM MobileHCI – International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, since 2008
• UbiComp’07 – 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 16-19 September
• ICPCA'07 - Member of the program committee for ICPCA'07 - 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Birmingham, UK, 2007.
• CHI'07 - Reviewer for CHI2007 (CHI Notes), Santa Fe, California, USA, 2007.
• SPCA'06 - Member of the program committee for SPCA'06 - 1st International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Xinjiang, China, 2006.
• CHI'06 - Reviewer for CHI 2006 (Work-In-Progress Submissions), Montreal, Canada, 2006.
• XATA2005 - Reviewer for XATA2005 - XML: Applications and related technologies, Braga, Portugal, 10-11 February, 2005.
• CAPSI2004 - Reviewer for CAPSI2004 - Lisboa, Portugal, 3-5 November, 2004.
  

Oral Presentations

Conferences

• “Mobile Support for Personalized Therapies - OmniSCOPE: Richer Artefacts and Data Collection, at the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009 (PervasiveHealth’09), London, United Kingdom, April the 3rd, 2009.
  
• Lessons from Early Stages Design of Mobile Applications”, at MobileHCI’08, 10th International conference on Mobile Human Computer Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2008.
  
• “Supporting the Design of Mobile Artefacts for Paper-Based Activities”, at CADUI’08, Computer Aided Design of User Interfaces, Albacete, Spain, June 2008.
  
•  “A Mixed-Fidelity Prototyping Tool for Mobile Devices”, at AVI’08, ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Naples, Italy,  May 2008.
  
•  “Multi-Purpose Proactive m-Artifacts”, at SAC’08, ACM Symposium for Applied Computing, Fortaleza, Brasil, March, 2008.
  
• ”Designing for Mobile Devices: Requirements, Low-Fi Prototyping and Evaluation”. na HCII’07, Human Computer Interaction International, Beijing, China, July, 2007.
  
• ”Detecting Learning Difficulties on Ubiquitous Scenarios”. na HCII’07, Human Computer Interaction International, Beijing, China, July, 2007.
  
• "ScWiz: Personalizing Psychotherapy". at Interacção 2006, 2nd National Conference in Human Computer Interaction, Braga, Portugal, October, 2006.
  
• "Handheld Devices for Cooperative Educational Activities". at SAC'06, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Mobile Computing and Applications Track, Dijon, France, April, 2006.
  
•  “Proactive Psychotherapy with Handheld Devices” at ICEIS2006, Paphos, Chipre, 24-27 May, 2006
  
• "Test-IT – Creating Educational Content and Tests on Hand-held Devices " na conferência Mobile Learning, Qawra, Malta,  28-30 June, 2005
  
• "Psychological Therapy Artifacts - Usage and Editing With PDAs" at Applied Computing, Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal,  22-25 February, 2005
• Supporting Psychological Therapy with PDAs” at Interacção2004,  1st Portuese National Conference in Human Computer Interaction, at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 12-14 July, 2004

Invited Lessons, Seminars and Demos

• Marco de Sá, “Contextual Design: Case Studies and Mobile Challenges”, Presentation at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal, March, 2009.
  
• Marco de Sá, “JoinTS”, Demo and presentation during reception of the visiting committee from the University of Stavanger, Norway.
  
• Marco de Sá, “SCOPE”, Demo and presentation during the reception of the visiting committee from the University of Macau (Faculty of Science and Technology and Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences).
  
• Marco de Sá, “SCOPE”, Demo and presentation during the reception of the visiting committee from the Superior School of St. Petersburg, Russia.
  
• Marco de Sá, “ScWiz Demo”, Demo and reception to the Portuguese Engineers’ Guild at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
  
• Marco de Sá, “Tools and Techniques for Mobile Interaction Design”, Seminar at DI’s Seminars, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, December 11th, 2008.
  
• Marco de Sá, “My Life After My Degree” – Seminar for the welcoming Committee for 1st year Students at the Computer Engineering Course from the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 24th, 2007.
  
• Marco de Sá, “Early Stage Prototyping and Evaluation”, Invited Lesson for the Mobile Computing Course at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, December 12th, 2007.
• Marco de Sá, “A Design Methodology for Mobile Devices”, Seminar at DI’s Seminars, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 6th December, 2007.