Participant Info
- Title
- Dr
- First Name*
- Sonia
- Middle Initials
- CC
- Last Name*
- Sousa
- email*
- scs@tlu.ee
- Gender*
- F
- Country*
- Estonia
- Role in the Network*
- WG-member, Management Committee Member
- Working Groups*
- WG2 – Tools and technologies for the play of children with disabilities
- Picture*
- Personal website, blog or social media link
- https://mesoniasousa.wordpress.com
- Ph.D*
- Yes
- Scientific Area
- Computer Science
- Year of PhD Award
- 2006
- Early Stage Researcher*
- No
- Sector*
- Higher Education & Associated Organisations
- Name of organisation*
- Tallinn University
- Area of Work*
- User engagement, namely aiming towards leveraging more engaging experiences for children with disabilities to play with technologies. Contributing for the importance of playing in the child development because it improves the children will to use the tools.
User experience evaluation, namely assessing existing tools and propose possible design solutions that improve positively the usage patterns. Promoting a better education while working with children with disabilities.
- Expertise Contributions*
- Our expertise is user studies of software interfaces and interaction design (including interaction design for impaired people).