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Personal profile
Biography
I hold a doctorate in Information Systems Technology. I am a Senior Lecturer in Games Development, and act as programme leader for the Computer Games Programming course.
I am responsible for teaching several courses on CS and Gaming curricula, mostly involving concepts of programming and computer graphics. In terms of research, I'm interested in studying virtual and augmented reality, synthetic characters and affective computing.
Education/Academic qualification
Information Systems and Technology, PhD, Creating Partly Autonomous Expressive Virtual Actors for Computer Animation, University of Minho
Oct 2008 → Jul 2014
Award Date: 29 Jul 2014
Computer Science and Mathematical Computing, MSc, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computaçao (ICMC)
Award Date: 4 Apr 2001
Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)
Award Date: 31 Jul 1997
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Bodyswaps x Meta Healthcare Grant
Da Silva, R. (PI), Fuggetta, G. (CoI) & Weiss, S. (CoI)
14/04/25 → 14/07/25
Project: Research
Research output
- 1 Chapter
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Development of an Augmented Reality Tabletop Card Game: “The Throne is Mine”
Adams, S. & Da Silva, R., 4 Dec 2025, (Accepted/In press) Joint Conference on Serious Games 2025. Rotkreuz, SwitzerlandResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review