I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente's Department of Design, Production and Management. My research has focused on designing, developing and evaluating 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.
My work has been published and awarded in top venues in the field of HCI, such as CHI and Ubicomp. My full list of publications can be found on google scholar.
I received a Phd in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Madeira (UMa) in 2019 where I was the holder of a National PhD studentship awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. I also hold a MS and BS in Computer Science from UMa. While living most of my life in Madeira, I’ve led a semi-nomadic lifestyle – living a considerable number of years in Sydney, and months, across Antwerp, Seattle, Limassol and more recently, Freiburg.
Exploring the everyday use of health and wellness tools
We have focused on the development and field trial of novel research prototypes, with the goal of understanding the use and adoption of tools that promote health and wellness, and their impact on people’s behaviors. read more
Related Publications
Activity Tracking in vivo
Rúben Gouveia, Evangelos Karapanos, Marc Hassenzahl.
CHI, 2018. pdf
Exploring the design space of glanceable feedback for physical activity trackers
Rúben Gouveia, Fábio Pereira, Evangelos Karapanos, Sean Munson, Marc Hassenzahl.
Ubicomp, 2016. pdf | talk slides | publisher
Wellbeing in the Making: Peoples’ Experiences with Wearable Activity Trackers
Evangelos Karapanos, Rúben Gouveia, Marc Hassenzahl, Jodi Forlizzi.
How do we engage with activity trackers? a longitudinal study of Habito
Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5%).
Rúben Gouveia, Evangelos Karapanos, Marc Hassenzahl.
Ubicomp, 2015. pdf | talk slides | publisher
Supporting recollection with lifelogging
Clinically diagnosed memory disorders such as Alzheimer disease, impair episodic memories, drawing people away from their natural ability of recalling past experiences.
In this project, we have developed lifelogging systems with the goal of supporting memory recollection of significant experiences. read more
Related Publications
Footprint tracker: supporting diary studies with lifelogging
Rúben Gouveia, Evangelos Karapanos.
CHI 2013 . pdf | talk slides | publisher