Autor e vínculos: Corina Sas; Lancaster University, UK

Bio: Corina Sas is Professor in Human-Computer Interaction with the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK. Corina's research is in the area of technologies for wellbeing and health. She published over 200 papers, and her work received extensive media coverage as well as 5 Best Paper and Honourable Mention Awards at ACM CHI and DIS conferences. She served as Paper Co-Chair for British HCI 2025, Technical Program Co-Chair for CHI 2024, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for DIS 2023, and General Co-Chair for Creativity & Cognition 2021, 2022. Corina is member of the Editorial Boards of the ACM Transactions in Human-Computer Interaction, and Taylor & Francis Human Computer Interaction Journal, as well as ACM Distinguished Speaker (2022-2025). She received 4 Awards for excellence in research leadership and has been investigator on grants totalling over £15.1 million including the lead of two prestigious EC-funded Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks which provided interdisciplinary PhD training to 28 early career researchers. Corina supervised to completion 15 PhD students, and in 2021 was shortlisted by the UK Times Higher Education for the Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year Award.

Título: HCI and Digital Health: User-Centred Design of Interventions for Self-Regulation
Resumo: The last decade has witnessed a significant growth of HCI interest in affective and mindfulness technologies, with a focus on computerized therapy, or audio-visual interfaces for guided mindfulness meditation. In contrast, technologies leveraging primarily the body through biosensors or haptic actuators have received however less attention. This talk will provide an overview of my research in this space, illustrated through design exemplars of technologies supporting emotional awareness and self regulation. Such work focuses on the exploration of bodily experienced and highlights novel design implications to inform the more sensitive design of future affective and mindfulness technologies.