Vítor Carvalho's Curriculum Vitae

• Web design;
• Web interface planning;
• Web page maintenance;
• Multimedia design (print and video);
• Accessibility and usability advisor.

• Lab Classes of "Rehabilitation Engineering" (1^st year of the Biomedical Engineering Master and 5^th year of the Bioengineering Master).

• Final Master Grade: 18 (0 - 20);
• Thesis Grade: 19 (0 - 20).

• Final Master Grade: 12 (0 - 20);
• Thesis Grade: 18 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 35 hours;
• Grade: "Successfully Completed".

• Duration: 18 hours;
• Grade: "Successfully Completed".

• Duration: 18 hours;
• Grade: "Successfully Completed".

• Duration: 20 hours;
• Grade: 18 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 28 hours;
• Grade: 18 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 20 hours;
• Grade: "Very Good" ("Insufficient" - "Very Good").

• Duration: 18 hours;
• Grade: "Successfully Completed".

• Duration: 20 hours;
• Grade: "Very Good" ("Insufficient" - "Very Good").

• Duration: 15 hours;
• Grade: 18 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 28 hours;
• Grade: 17 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 20 hours;
• Grade: 19 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 20 hours;
• Grade: 17 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 20 hours;
• Grade: 17 (0 - 20).

• Duration: 12 hours;
• Grade: "Successfully Completed".

• Duration: 60 hours;
• Grade: 19 (0 - 20).

• English
  • Oral Understand - C1
  • Oral Interaction - C1
  • Oral Production - C1
  • Read - C1
  • Write - C1
• Spanish
  • Oral Understand - B2
  • Oral Interaction - B2
  • Oral Production - B2
  • Read - B2
  • Write - B1
• French
  • Oral Understand - B2
  • Oral Interaction - B1
  • Oral Production - B1
  • Read - B2
  • Write - B1

Levels:

• A1 and A2 - Basic User
• B1 and B2 - Independent User
• C1 and C2 - Advanced User

• Digital image manipulation, audio, video and webdesign
  Adobe Master Collection CS6 - Photoshop, Audition, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Dreamweaver;
• Programming languages
  Python, PHP, C ++, JavaScript, Pascal, AutoLisp, Visual BASIC, QBASIC, BASIC;
• Databases
  MySQL, Access, Oracle;
• Internet
  HTML, XHTML, CSS;
• Computer Aided Design
  Autodesk AutoCAD;
• Productivity
  Microsoft Office.

• Vítor Carvalho, Diamantino Freitas, "Development of Accessibility Resources for Teaching and Learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" in "2020 IEEE Global Engineerig Education Conference (EDUCON)", IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON45650.2020.9125152, pp. 1873-1878, 2020.
• Vítor Carvalho, Diamantino Freitas, "Indústrias Inclusivas: da Utopia Imaginada à Realidade Tangível" in "Tecnometal nr. 245 (November/December 2019)", AIMMAP - Associação dos Industriais Metalúrgicos, Metalomecânicos e Afins de Portugal, pp. 26-32, 2019.
• Vítor Carvalho, Diamantino Freitas, "Automatic Description of SVG Images for the Visually Impaired: A Gestaltic Approach" in "Procedia Computer Science", Volume 67, Elsevier B. V., ISSN 1877-0509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/
  j.procs.2015.09.243, pp. 2-11, 2015.
• Vítor Carvalho, Ana Reis, "A Sustentabilidade. LCA - Life Cycle Assessment" in "Introdução à Engenharia Mecânica", Porto, Publindústria, pp. 534-540, 2015.
• Vítor Carvalho, Diamantino Freitas, "Converting SVG Images to Text and Speech", Proceedings of ICEAPVI - International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment, pp. 50-58, Athens, Greece, 2015.
• Alice Ribeiro, António Silva, Bruno Giesteira, Diamantino Freitas, Jorge Fernandes, Jorge Alves, Nuno Regadas, Vítor Carvalho, "PLACES - A Web Platform for Accessibility", Proceedings of ICEAPVI - International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment, pp. 169-173, Athens, Greece, 2015.
• Vítor Carvalho, "Conversão de Imagens SVG para Texto e Fala" [MSc Thesis in Multimedia], Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 306p., 2014.
• Vítor Carvalho, "FRED: Ferramenta para Relatórios de EcoDesign" [MSc Thesis in Mechanical Engineering], Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 231p., 2009.
• Vítor Carvalho, Diamantino Freitas, Helder Ferreira, Dárida Fernandes, Fernando Pedrosa, "A prototype application for helping to teach how to read numbers", Volume I of the Proceedings of HCI International 2003 - 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction; 5th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics; 2nd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 941-945, Crete, Greece, 2003.

• Rehabilitation Engineering (Lab Classes).
  Academic year 2021/2022 - 1 semester.
  Public: Students of the 1^st and 2^nd year of the Master in Bioengineering and the Master in Biomedical Engineering.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Rehabilitation Engineering (Lab Classes).
  Academic year 2020/2021 - 1 semester.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of the Biomedical Engineering Master and 5^th year of the Bioengineering Master.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Rehabilitation Engineering (Lab Classes).
  Academic year 2019/2020 - 1 semester.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of the Biomedical Engineering Master and 5^th year of the Bioengineering Master.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Rehabilitation Engineering (Lab Classes).
  Academic year 2018/2019 - 1 semester.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of the Biomedical Engineering Master and 5^th year of the Bioengineering Master.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Rehabilitation Engineering (Lab Classes).
  Academic year 2017/2018 - 1 semester.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of the Biomedical Engineering Master and 5^th year of the Bioengineering Master.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Computer Resources (FEUP Project).
  Academic year 2012/2013 - 4 hours.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of licenciaturas and integrated masters.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Computer Resources (FEUP Project).
  Academic year 2011/2012 - 4 hours.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of licenciaturas and integrated masters.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Web Content Production.
  November 4^th, 2010 - 2 hours.
  Public: Master's students in Industrial Design.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Computer Resources (FEUP Project).
  Academic year 2010/2011 - 4 hours.
  Public: Students of the 1^st year of licenciaturas and integrated masters.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Transforming SIGARRA's Layout.
  From May 26^th to 28^th, 2010 - 12 hours.
  Public: Technicians, Administrative and Technical Professionals.
  University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Transforming SIGARRA's Layout.
  From April 28^th to 30^th, 2009 - 12 hours.
  Public: Technicians, Administrative and Technical Professionals.
  University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Design for the Web (Porto On-Line).
  From June 26^th to July 7^th, 2000 - 125 hours.
  Public: Teachers of 6^th to 7^th grade.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Building Thematic Pages for the Web (Porto On-Line).
  From February 16^th to 27^th, 1998 - 125 hours.
  Public: Teachers of 6^th to 7^th grade.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Photoshop 4.0.
  From July to September, 1998.
  Microcamp International, Porto (Portugal).
• AutoDesk AutoCad R14.
  From September to November, 1997.
  Euclides Study Centre, Porto (Portugal).

• 23^rd Workshop of the WireAcademy - Accessibility: Opportunities and Challenges.
  "Acessibilidade na Presença Web da Universidade do Porto (Accessibility on the Web Presence of the University of Porto)".
  September 29^th, 2021.
  Porto (Portugal).
• 2020 IEEE Global Engineerig Education Conference (EDUCON).
  "Development of Accessibility Resources for Teaching and Learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics".
  April 28^th, 2020.
  Porto (Portugal).
• Forum - Tecnometal's 40^th Anniversary.
  "Indústrias Inclusivas - da Utopia Imaginada à Realidade Tangível (Inclusive Industries - From Imagined Utopia to Tangible Reality)".
  March 22^nd, 2019.
  Porto (Portugal).
• DSAI'15 - International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion.
  "Automatic description of SVG images for the visually impaired: a Gestaltic approach".
  June 10^th, 2015.
  Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin (Germany).
• Seminário ACESSO.02.
  "Conversão de Imagens SVG para Texto e Fala".
  April 17^th, 2015.
  Porto Design Factory, Porto (Portugal).
• ICEAPVI 2015 - International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment.
  "Converting SVG Images to Text and Speech".
  February 13^th, 2015.
  Eugenides Foundation, Athens (Greece)
• Future Places 2014.
  "Converting SVG Images to Text and Speech".
  October 16^th, 2014.
  UPTEC PINC, Porto (Portugal).

• UT Austin | Portugal Annual Conference 2016.
  "Helping the Visually Impaired in the Visual Creation Process".
  May 23^rd and 24^th, 2016.
  Rectorate Building of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Campolide Campus), Lisbon (Portugal).

• PLUNC (New Media and Digital Art Festival) - "From Birthing the Apocalypse to Big Fat Fail: (Net) Art as Software Research".
  September 30^th, 2016.
  Library Auditorium of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Costa da Caparica, Lisbon (Portugal).
• UT Austin | Portugal Annual Conference 2016.
  May 23^rd and 24^th, 2016.
  Rectorate Building of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Campolide Campus), Lisbon (Portugal).
• PLUNC (New Media and Digital Art Festival) - "Augmented Aesthetics".
  September 25^th, 2015.
  Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal).
• António Damásio - "New Perspectives on Human Nature from Neurobiology: Feelings, Decisions and Automation".
  July 1^st, 2015.
  Rectory Main Hall of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• COMMIT PORTO 2015.
  June 20^th, 2015.
  Auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal).
• DSAI'15 - International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion.
  June 10^th to 12^th, 2015.
  Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin (Germany).
• ICEAPVI 2015 - International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment.
  February 12^th to 14^th, 2015.
  Eugenides Foundation, Athens (Greece).
• Future Places 2014.
  October 16^th, 2014.
  UPTEC PINC, Porto (Portugal).
• EUNIS 2002 - The 8^th International Conference of European University Information Systems.
  June 19^th to 22^nd, 2002.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal).

• Elsevier Seminar - "Knovel and Compendex: Navigate the world of Engineering".
  December 1^st, 2015.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• SHARE Seminar - "Leadership and Team Management".
  November 27^th, 2015.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Elsevier Author Seminar - "How to Write Great Papers: From title to references, from submission to publication".
  September 9^th, 2015.
  Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• ACESSO.02 Seminar.
  April 17^th, 2015.
  Porto Design Factory, Porto (Portugal).
• International Day of People with Disabilities.
  December 3^rd, 2014.
  Auditorium I of the FIL Meeting Center - the Nations Park, Lisbon (Portugal).
• Seminar "New Paradigms of Education".
  March 12^th, 2014.
  Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• Seminar on Usability 2008.
  March 25^th, 2008.
  Auditorium of Microsoft Portugal, Oeiras (Portugal).
• Seminar on Usability 2005.
  November 3^rd, 2005.
  Main Auditorium of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal).
• Seminar "More accessibility, Best Accessibility" - SIDAR Conference VII.
  November 3^rd to 5^th, 2003.
  Auditorium of the School of Health Technology, Lisbon (Portugal).
• Adobe Seminar "Challenge the Web Standards".
  2000.
  Le Meridien Hotel, Porto (Portugal).
• Seminar "AutoDesk Forum 2000".
  2000.
  Customs Building, Porto (Portugal).

• Silverlight and ImagineCup Presentation.
  November 13^th, 2007.
  School of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
• W3C/WAI Web Accessibility Best Practices Evaluation Training.
  July 5^th, 2005.
  Sana Metropolitan Hotel, Lisbon (Portugal).