dr. R.H. De Freitas Gouveia (Rúben)

Rúben Gouveia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design, Production and Management at the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the University of Twente, Enschede. His research focuses on designing and developing tools that support health and wellbeing and evaluating how these tools augment abilities to reflect and to identify opportunities for change – such becoming more physically active and eating healthier.

He received a Phd in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Madeira (UMa) in 2019 where he was the holder of a National PhD studentship awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He also hold a MS and BS in Computer Science from UMa.

At UMa he was supervised by Evangelos Karapanos and collaborated closely with a number of distinguished researchers, such as Marc Hassenzahl and Jodi Forlizzi. During his graduate studies, he was a research visitor at the University of Washington, where he was advised by Sean Munson.

Rúben frequently contributes to top-tier conferences and journals in Human-Computer Interaction, such as CHI and UbiComp and has received a number of awards including an honourable mention for best paper at UbiComp and being nominated a finalist for the UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Award, given to a researcher who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of ubiquitous computing. His full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

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Other contributions

selected recent papers:

Activity Tracking in vivo
R.Gouveia, E. Karapanos, M. Hassenzahl.
CHI, 2018.

Exploring the design space of glanceable feedback for physical activity trackers
R. Gouveia, F. Pereira, E. Karapanos, S. Munson, M. Hassenzahl.
Ubicomp, 2016.

Wellbeing in the Making: Peoples’ Experiences with Wearable Activity Trackers
E. Karapanos, R. Gouveia, M. Hassenzahl, J. Forlizzi.
Psychology of Well-Being, 2016.

How do we engage with activity trackers? a longitudinal study of Habito
Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5%).
R. Gouveia, E. Karapanos, M. Hassenzahl.
Ubicomp, 2015

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

Current projects

Pride and Prejudice

Chronic disease prevention through real-life monitoring and context-aware intervention design

This program features a unique combination of disciplines, involving physical, life, ICT, design, behavioural and social sciences. The consortium is composed of researchers from all 4TU’s and within each university from multiple faculties/departments, and is thus uniquely suited to deliver this program’s promise, as it combines in-depth nutrition and nutrition behavior knowledge with the technological knowledge of lifestyle sensors, the design of lifestyle interventions for groups of people, the ability to seamlessly integrate sensing technologies into people’s daily lives, and the expertise on tailoring feedback to individuals on their nutrition and physical activity data, well aware of what can persuade them to make healthy choices in real life.

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University of Twente

Horst - Ring (building no. 21)
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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