WalkingPAD

Hugo Paredes (M) received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minho (2000 and 2008), and the Habilitation title from the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro - UTAD (2016). He was software engineer at SiBS, S.A. and software consultant at Novabase Outsoursing, S.A. Since 2003, he has been at UTAD, where he is currently Full Professor. In 2017 he co-founded Robocode Generation, Lda, a start-up company, UTAD spin off, where he is scientific consultant. During 2017 he was a visiting faculty at Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Pro-Rector for Digital Transition and Administrative Transformation at UTAD from May 2021 to September 2023.

He is a Researcher Coordinator at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), he is Coordinator of the Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE). His main research interests are in the domain of Human-Computer Interaction, namely the topic of Human-AI applied to climate change, accessibility, health and active and healthy ageing. He is a member of the J.UCS board of editors, was guest editor of four Special Issues in journals indexed by the Journal Citation Reports and collaborates with the organization of several international conferences. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 refereed journal, book chapters and conference papers. He is one of the inventors of a granted patent and a patent pending request. He participated and lead several projects, including national and international projects, with public and private funding.

Miguel Velhote Correia is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), where he taughts since 1998. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP in 1990. He also obtained his Master's and Doctorate at FEUP in 1995 and 2001, in the areas of Industrial Automation and Computer Vision, respectively. Since March 2008, he has been a senior researcher at INESC-Tecnologia e Ciência, responsible for the Bioinstrumentation Laboratory of the Research Center for Biomedical Engineering. He is also a member of the Order of Engineers. In 2007 he was co-founder and technical consultant until 2017 of Kinematix Sense S.A, a start-up electronic devices company from the University of Porto and INESC-TEC. Between 1993 and 2007, he was a researcher at the Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica and, previously, at the Centro CIM do Porto at FEUP. His main research interests are in Electronics and Biomedical Instrumentation, Wearable Systems, Computer Vision, Signal and Image Processing, focusing on the measurement and analysis of human movement, perception, action and performance. Since 1990 he has participated in more than two dozen funded research projects, supervised 10 PhD students and 50 MSc students, and co-authored more than 150 articles published in scientific journals and international conference proceedings.