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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Interface Design - Usability - HCI - Open Source software design
Free software is already a reality in Brazil's government institutions. Civil servants in federal, state, and municipal spheres are installing and managing administrative structures with platforms and applications based on open sources.
Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free software movement.
Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems, like Linux. On Mr. da Silva's watch, Brazil has also become the first country to require any company or research institute that receives government financing to develop software to license it as open-source, meaning the underlying software code must be free to all.
The initiative includes plans to export around 2 billion USD worth of software per year; to replace Microsoft Windows with Linux in 300,000 federal government computers; to transfer 1 billion USD in resources from the Telecommunications Fund (Fust) to the free software-based Digital Communications System (SCD); and to integrate the country's 200,000 public schools via open-source technology.
But, there are a lots of design problems with that open source interfaces right now: brazilian programmers are producing open source software and Java based web solutions very fast without enough support on HCI and usability for their projects (actually, just for some of them).
Some of the volunteer and academic projects are repeating design mistakes copying the most common software design solutions. That's no good and our research group, named CIBERVIX, is starting to work to design interfaces focusing HCI and usability. We are researching about usability evaluation methods, including remote evaluation methods.
If you want know more, please contact us: [email protected].
ACADEMIC PREPARATION:
(1) Universidade de São Paulo / USP - São Paulo - BRAZIL - 1999
Engineering School of São Carlos, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning. 1.100 hours (courses) + thesis (870 hours).
Master Science Degree (Stricto Sensu): "Computer Aided Architectural Design: Software Interface Evaluation ".
(2) Universidade Católica de Santos / UNISANTOS - Santos - BRAZIL - 1992
College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Graduate: Architecture and Urban Planning. 5.114 hours (courses).
EXPERIENCE:
Current employer:
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - Vitória - Brazil - Since May/2004
Industrial Design College - Arts Center
Teaching in: Computer Graphics in Graphic Design - usability;
Past employer 1:
Universidade de Araraquara / UNIARA - Araraquara - Brazil - 1999/2003
Architectural and Urban Planning College
Teaching in: Architectural Design and Computer Aided Architectural Design;
Others Colleges teaching computer softwares and graphic design: "Propaganda and Publicity", "Tourism", "Pedagogy" and "Journalism".
Past employer 2:
Universidade Paulista / UNIP - Ribeirão Preto - Brazil 1998
Architectural and Urban Planning College
Teaching in: Computer Aided Architectural Design.
Past employer 3:
Universidade Federal de Viçosa / UFV - Viçosa - Brazil - 1995/1996
Architectural and Urban Planning College
Teaching in: Architectural Design and Computer Aided Architectural Design.
PAPERS:
- "The teaching relevance of GIS and Proccess Simulation Softwares (Production Engineering) in Architectural and Urban Planning Colleges". XVI ENSEA - National Meeting about teaching in Architecture and Urban Plannig, fomented by ABEA - Brazilian Association of Teaching in Architecture and Urban Planning. Realized in 1999, State University of Londrina / UEL, Brazil.
- "Computers and Teaching in Architectural Design". ÓCULUM Magazine, #10, 1997. Printed in Architectural College of Catholic University of Campinas - PUCCamp, Brazil.
LECTURE:
- "Digital tools and the (under)graduate of news architects and engineers". Digital Design World Congress / DDW, São Paulo/Brazil, 2002.
WORKSHOP OFFERED:
- "Architectural Photography Workshop ". Happened in the 5th Architectural Students Week - University of Araraquara/Brazil, 2003.
- "Architectural Photography Workshop ". Happened in the 4th Architectural Students Week - University of Araraquara/Brazil, 2002.
LANGUAGES:
- English: reading, speaking and writing (advanced);
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- IAB / Brazilian Institut of Architects and Urban Planners;
- CREA / Brazilian Regional Council of Architects and Engineers;
- ABEA / Brazilian Association of Teaching in Architecture and Urban Planning.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND CONSULTATIONS:
- Houses, Industrial Buildings, Business Buildings and others types of buildings.;
- Consulting: Usability - HCI;
- Consulting: Software and hardware for architectural design and others applications.
RELEVANT LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
- Coordination of "CIBERVIX - Digital usability research group" of Industrial Design Department, Federal University of Espírito Santo;
- Coordination of "LIGAR - Digital laboratory of architecture and urban planning " of Federal University of Viçosa, 1995-1996;
- Coordination of "2th National Meeting about digital tools and teaching in architecture", 1996, University of Viçosa;
- President of the graduate student association for 4 years;
- Social director of the graduate student association for one year;
- Treasurer of the Architecture Students Film Club for 2 years.
SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
- Usability and HCI;
- Software Teaching: Autocad Architectural Desktop, ArchiCAD, CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker, InDesign, DreamWeaver, Flash, 3D VIZ, 3DMAX, Microsoft Word, Access, Excel and Power Point;
- Computer assembly;
- Amateur architectural photographer;
- Amateur studio photographer (models);
- Professional model maker.
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
- Sports: sailing (Holder 12), Aikido and Shoryn-ryu Karate-do (martial arts) and mountain bike;
- Movies, philosophy, history, arts, music, photography, travel, graphic design, furniture design, others cultures and countries.
RELATED WEB SITES:
- Linus, We Love You: A Report from the 5th International Free Software Forum
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7635
- MIT backs Brazil's choice of Linux over Microsoft.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5624130.html
- Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12016
- Free Software, Free Society.
http://www.virtualactivism.org/articles/04/chris-freesoftware.htm
- How Do You Say, 'Bye, Microsoft', in Brazil?
http://www.brazzil.com/2004/html/articles/apr04/p136apr04.htm
- Usability and Free Software (1)
http://www.knowprose.com/node/71
- Usability and Free Software (2)
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~hmw26/join-the-dots/2004/10/14/usability-and-free-software/
- Usability and Open Source Software
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~daven/docs/oss-wp.html
- Why Free Software usability tends to suck
http://mpt.phrasewise.com/discuss/msgReader$173
- Why Free Software usability tends to suck even more
http://mpt.phrasewise.com/discuss/msgReader$182
- Brazilian government free software program (Portuguese only).
http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/
- Brazilian government digital inclusion program (Portuguese only).
http://www.idbrasil.gov.br/
- Brazilian government free software program (Portuguese only).
http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/
- Free Brazilian GIS Software: SPRING. (English version)
http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html