My research interests focus mainly on Human-Computer Interaction with the goal of tackling accessibility issues, making information and systems reachable to people with special needs.
I began my research career in 2010 when I was involved in an European project named GUIDE (“Gentle User Interfaces for Elderly people”). In this project I developed an Intelligent Multimodal Fission Engine that enabled automatic output adaptations in the User Interface of TV based applications according to the user’s characteristics and environmental context.
More recently I have worked on gesture recognition systems. In 2013 I have developed a classifier for recognition of gestures that could involve all human body through video image processing devices (e.g. Microsoft Kinect).
In March 2014 I have started my PhD with the goal of easing the interaction of people with visual impairments when interacting with their mobile devices by appropriating the body (e.g. skin or muscle activity) as an interactive platform.
Research Topics
Multimodal Systems
Adaptive Systems
Accessibility
Body Interaction
Advanced Interaction
José Coelho, Pradipta Biswas, Carlos Duarte, Tiago Guerreiro, Pat Langdon, Pedro Feiteira, Daniel Costa, David Costa, Bruno Neves, and Fernando Alves, "Involving All Stakeholders in the Development of TV Applications for Elderly." International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems 5, no. 3 and 4 (2012): 427-440. ISSN: 1942-2679
Research
Research Interests
Book
Chapters
Journal Articles
David Costa and Carlos Duarte, Improving Interaction with TV based Applications through Adaptive Multimodal Fission in Emerging Research and Trends in Interactivity and the Human Computer
Interface, Katherine Blashki and Pedro Isaias (Eds.), pp. 54-73, IGI Global, 2013, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4623-0.ch003
Carlos Duarte, Daniel Costa, Pedro Feiteira, David Costa, "Building an Adaptive Multimodal Framework for Resource Constrained Systems", A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing, pp. 155-173, Pradipta Biswas, Carlos Duarte, Pat Langdon, Luís Almeida, Christoph Jung (Eds.), Springer, 2013, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5082-4_8
Conference Publications
David Costa, "On-Body Interaction for Optimized Accessibility", in 20th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'15), Atlanta, USA, 2015, DOI: 10.1145/2732158.2732164
David Costa and Carlos Duarte, "From One to Many Users and Contexts: a Classifier form arm and hand gestures", in 20th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'15), Atlanta, USA, 2015,
DOI: 10.1145/2678025.2701388
Carlos Duarte, Luis Carriço, David Costa, Daniel Costa, André Falcão, Luís Tavares, "Welcoming Gesture Recognition into Autism Therapy", in CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '14), Toronto, Canada, 2014, DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2581337
David Costa and Carlos Duarte, Adapting TV based applications user interface, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2012, Lisboa, Portugal July 17-20,
ISBN: 978-972893975-5
José Coelho, Daniel Costa, Carlos Duarte, Pedro Feiteira, David Costa, "From low to High Fidelity Prototypes: Challenges when Developing for Elderly", in Proceedings on Developing Intelligent User Interfaces for e-Accessibility and e-Inclusion Workshop at Intelligent User Interfaces 2012 (IUI 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Feb 2012
Jose Coelho, Carlos Duarte, Pedro Feiteira, Daniel Costa, David Costa, "Building Bridges Between Elederly and TV Application Developers", in Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI 2012), Valencia, Spain, 2012,
ISSN: 2308-4138
Carlos Duarte, Jose Coelho, Pedro Feiteira, David Costa, Daniel Costa, "Eliciting Interaction Requirements for Adaptive Multimodal TV based Applications", in Proc. of the 14th International Conference on HCI (HCII), Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_6
David Costa, Carlos Duarte, "Adapting Multimodal Fission to User's Abilities", in Proc. of the 14th International Conference on HCI (HCII), Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21672-5_38
Carlos Duarte, Daniel Costa, David Costa, and Pedro Feiteira. "Support for inferring user abilities for multimodal applications". 4 Conferência Nacional Interacção 2010, page 2, 2010.