Vítor Carvalho's Personal Web page

About

Vítor Carvalho pursues his professional activity in the Development and Innovation Unit, Information Systems area of UPdigital and is an Invited Assistant Lecturer at University of Porto (U.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 and PLACES (Accessibility Platform of U.Porto).

He is a PhD student in Digital Media at U.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 recent MSc thesis in Multimedia entitled "Conversão de Imagens SVG para Texto e Fala" (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).

Curriculum

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Professional Experience

Senior IT Technician.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
Main activities: Web design, multimedia design (printing and video), accessibility and usability advisor.
Invited Assistant Lecturer.
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal).
Lab Classes of "Rehabilitation Engineering" (Master in Bioengineering and Master in Biomedical Engineering).

Education

PhD Student in Digital Media.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
MSc in Multimedia.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
MSc in Mechanical Engineering.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).

Training

Production of Educational Videos.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
Project Management.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
Accessibility in the Classroom.
University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
Accessible Digital Contents.
Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).
Efficient Time Management.
Faculty of Psicology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto (Portugal).

Publications

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

Speaker at Conferences, Seminars and Events

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).

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