Beatriz Sousa Santos

  (Maria Beatriz Alves de Sousa Santos)

 

 

 

   Professora Associada com Agregação

Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro
IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro
bss@ua.pt

 

 

 

Directora do Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Informática:

 

Secretária do Conselho Científico da UA

 

Tem leccionado, nos últimos anos, as seguintes disciplinas:

    • Engenharia de Computadores e Telemática:

                        Introdução à Electrónica Digital, Interacção Humano-Computador,

     Computação Visual, Modelação e Visualização 3D

    • Engenharia Electrónica e de Telecomunicações:

                        Interfaces Humano-Computador, Computação Gráfica

    • Engenharia Física/Física:

Circuitos Eléctricos

    • Mestrado em Sistemas de Informação:  

Visualização de Informação

    • MAPI - Doutoramento em Informática  (Minho, Aveiro e Porto):

                       Computer Graphics

    • Mestrado em Engenharia Electrónica e de Telecomunicações (pré-Bolonha):  

                        Visualização de Dados e Informação

    • Mestrado em Gestão da Informação (pré-Bolonha):

Comunicação Humano-Computador

Análise de Dados e Visualização de Informação

    • Radiologia da ESSUA:                                                                     

 Investigação em Radiologia

Áreas de Interesse:

    • Visualização de Dados e de Informação, Imagem Médica, Realidade Virtual, Interacção Humano-Computador

  Publicações em Revistas ISI mais recentes:

    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Joaquim Madeira, “Left-Ventricle Global and Regional Functional Analysis from MDCT Images”, aceite para publicação na revista Computer Graphics Forum
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, S. Silva, C. Ferreira, J. Madeira, “Integrating User Studies into Computer Graphics-Related Courses”, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 31, N. 5, pp. 14-17, doi:10.1109/MCG.2011.78
    • - Leonor Teixeira, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Vasco Saavedra, “Web-enabled registry of inherited bleeding disorders in Portugal: conditions and perception of the patients”, aceite para publicação na revista Haemophilia, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2516.2011.02574.x
    • - Leonor Teixeira, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “User-Centered Requirements Engineering in Health Information Systems: a study in the hemophilia field” aceite para publicação na revista Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.10.007 
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Joaquim Madeira, "Using Color in Visualization: A Survey", Computer & Graphics, April 2011, Vol. 33, N. 2, pp. 320-333, doi:10.1016/j.cag.2010.11.015 
    • - José S. Silva, Augusto Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Image Denoising Methods for Tumour Discrimination in High Resolution Computed Tomography”, Journal of Digital Imaging, Vol. 24, 3, 2011, pp. 464-469, doi: 10.1007/s10278-010-9305-6
    • - Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “PolyMeCo – An Integrated Environment for Polygonal Mesh Analysis and Comparison”, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 33, N. 2, April 2009, pp. 181-191, doi:10.1016/j.cag.2008.09.014 
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, A. Pimentel, J. Baggerman, C. Ferreira, S. Silva, J. Madeira, “Head Mounted Display versus desktop for 3D Navigation in Virtual Reality: A User Study”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 41, January 2009, pp. 161-181 doi: 10.1007/s11042-008-0223-2 (PDF)  
    • - Paulo Dias, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Teaching 3D Modelling and Visualization using VTK”, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 32, Nº 3, June 2008, pp. 363-370 doi:10.1016/j.cag.2008.01.005  (PDF)
    • - Rui Borges Lopes, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Sérgio Barreto, “A decision-support tool for a capacitated location-routing problem”, Decision Support Systems, December 2008, Vol. 46, Nº1, pp. 366-375, doi:10.1016/j.dss.2008.07.007  

 

 Publicações em Conferências Internacionais mais recentes:

    • – Leonor Teixeira, Vasco Saavedra, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Using Participatory Design in a Health Information System”, 33th Conference IEEE EMBC, September, 2011, Boston, USA
    • - Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Carlos Ferreira, “Inter-observer Variability Assessment of a Left Ventricle Segmentation Tool Applied to 4D MDCT Images of the Heart”, 33th Conference IEEE EMBC, September, 2011, Boston, USA
    • – Samuel Silva, Nuno Bettencourt, Daniel leite, João Rocha, Mónica Carvalho, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Myocaldial Perfusion Analysis from Adenosine-Induced Stress MDCT”, Proceedings of 5th Iberian Conference Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2011, Las Palmas, Spain, June 2011, Springer- Verlag, LNC6669, pp. 717-725
    • – Vítor Gonçalves, Paulo Dias, Fernando Almeida, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “3D Visualization of sparse geophysical data representing uncertainty”, V Ibero-American Symposium in Computer Graphics – SIACG 2011, Faro, June 2011, pp.
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Joaquim Madeira, “Left Ventricle Global and Regional Analysis from MDCT Images”, V Ibero-American Symposium in Computer Graphics – SIACG 2011, Faro, June 2011, pp. 217-223
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, “A Preparatory study to choose similarity metrics for Left Ventricle segmentation comparison”, Medical Imaging 2011: Computer Aided Diagnosis, SPIE Vol. 7963, Florida, USA, February 2011, pp. 796326-1-8
    • - Leonor Teixeira, Vasco Saavedra, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Improving the Management of Chronic Diseases using Web-based Technologies: an application in hemophilia care”, 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp. 2184-7
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Bruno Prada, Hugo Ribeiro, Paulo Dias, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, “Wiimote as an input device in Google Earth visualization and navigation: a user study comparing two alternatives”, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conf.,  London, July 2010, pp. 473 – 478 (PDF)
    • - Vítor Gonçalves, Paulo Dias, Fernando Almeida, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Exploring new ways of integration, visualization and interaction with Geotechnical and Geophysical Data”, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference, London July 2010, pp. 181-185
    • - Rui Borges Lopes, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Information visualization in facility location and vehicle routing decisions”, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference, London, July 2010, pp. 110-115
    • - Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira, Augusto Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “CardioAnalyser: A Software Tool for Segmentation and Analysis of the Left Ventricle from 4D MDCT Images of the Heart”, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference, London, July 2010, pp. 629-634
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Joaquim Madeira, Augusto Silva, “A 3D Tool for Left Ventricle Segmentation Editing”, A.Campilho and M.Kamel (Eds.): ICIAR2010, PartII, LNCS 6112, 2010, pp.79–88
    • - Leonor Teixeira, Vasco Saavedra, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “The User’s Role in the Development Process of a Clinical Information System: An Example in Hemophilia Care”, M. Kurosu (Ed.): Human Centered Design, HCII 2009, LNCS 5619, pp. 922–931
    • - Vasco Saavedra, Leonor Teixeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Carlos Ferreira,  “A Preliminary Usability Evaluation of Hemo@Care: A Web-Based Application for Managing Clinical Information in Hemophilia Care”, M. Kurosu (Ed.): Human Centered Design, HCII 2009, LNCS 5619, pp. 785–794
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, Carlos Ferreira, “A Perceptual Repository for Polygonal Meshes”, Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Geometric Modeling and Imaging (GMAI09), Barcelona, July, 2009, pp. 207-211
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Joaquim Madeira, Augusto Silva, "Processing, Visualization and Analysis of Medical Images of the Heart: An Example of Fast Prototyping using MeVisLab”, Proc. 6th International Conference on BioMedical Visualization (MedViz09), Barcelona, July, 2009, pp. 165-170
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, Paulo Santos, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, "Usability evaluation in Virtual Environments through empirical studies involving users", ACM-CHI 2009 Workshop Challenges in Evaluating Usability and User Experience in Reality Based Interaction, Boston, USA, April, 2009 (PDF)
    • – Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, “Introducing Students to empirical methods in CG and HCI courses through user studies”, Eurographics 2009 Education Papers, Munich, Germany, April 2009, pp. 45-49 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, Samuel Silva, Luís Capucho, Norberto Salgado, Filipe Lino, Vitor Carvalho, Carlos Ferreira, “Usability Evaluation in Virtual Reality: A User Study Comparing Three Different Setups”, Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments EGVE08 (Posters), B. Mohler, R. Van Liere (ed.), Holland, May 2008, pp.21-24 (PDF)
    • - Leonor Teixeira, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Web-enabled System Design for Managing Clinical Information”, in Nilmini Wickramasinghe and Elie Geisler (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Healthcare Information Systems, New York, Medical Information Science Reference: Idea Group, Inc, 2008, pp.1398-1406
    • - Paulo Dias, Guilherme Campos, Vitor Santos, Ricardo Casaleiro, Ricardo Seco, Beatriz Sousa Santos, "3D Reconstruction and Auralization of the “Painted Dolmen” of Antelas". Proceedings of the Electronic Imaging 2008 Conference, Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications 2008, SPIE Vol. 6805, 6805OY, San Jose, California, USA. 28-29 January 2008.
    • - Samuel Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Joaquim Madeira, Carlos Ferreira “Perceived Quality Assessment of Polygonal Meshes using Observer Studies: A New Extended Protocol”, Electronic Imaging 2008: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII, San José, USA, February 2008 (PDF)
    • - José Silvestre Silva, Augusto Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Serial Volumetric Registration of CT Studies”, Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, SPIE Vol. 6916, San Diego, USA, February 2008, pp. 691611-1-9
    • - Sérgio Barreto, Carlos Ferreira, José Paixão, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Using clustering analysis in a capacitated location-routing problem”,  European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 179, Nº3, June 2007, pp.968-977
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Samuel Silva, Leonor Teixeira, Carlos Ferreira, Paulo Dias, Joaquim Madeira, “Preliminary Evaluation of PolyMeCo: A Visualization Based Tool for Mesh Analysis and Comparison”, Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Imaging- New Advances, (Banissi, E. et al. ed.), IEEE Computer Society, Zurich, July, 2007, pp.133-139 (PDF)
    • - Samuel Silva, Joaquim Madeira Beatriz Sousa Santos, “There is More to Color Scales than Meets the Eye: A Review on the Use of Color  in Visualization”,  Proceedings of Information Visualization, IV07, Zurich, Zurich, July 2007, pp. 943-948 (PDF)
    • - Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Comparison of Methods for the Simplification of Mesh Models using Quality Indices and an Observer Study”, Electronic Imaging 2007: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XII, SPIE Vol. 6492, San José, USA, February 2007, pp. 64921L1-L12 (PDF)
    • - Samuel Silva, Frutuoso, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Evaluation of mesh simplification algorithms using PolyMeCo: a case study”, Electronic Imaging 2007: Visualization and Data Analysis 2007, SPIE Vol. 6495, San José, USA, February 2007, pp. 64950D1-D12 (PDF)
    • - Paulo Dias, Angela Pimentel, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Usability in Virtual and Augmented Environments: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study”, Electronic Imaging 2007, San José, USA, February 2007 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, “An Introductory Course on Human-Computer Interaction- Program, Bibliography, Practical Classes and Assignments", Computer & Graphics, Vol. 30, Nº 4, August 2006, pp. 656-668 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Tom Ertl, Ken Joy (eds.), Proceedings of EuroVis2006, Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (in cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH), 8 – 10 May 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006
    • - Leonor Teixeira, Carlos Ferreira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Natália Martins, “Modeling a Web Based Information System for Managing Clinical Information in Hemophilia Care”, Proceedings of the 28th IEEE-EMBS, New York, August 2006, pp. 2610-2613
    • - Paulo Dias, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Using VTK as a Tool for Teaching and Applying Computer Graphics”, Eurographics 2006, Education Papers, Vienna, September 2006 (6 pags.)
    • - José Silvestre Silva, Augusto Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “A volumetric pulmonary CT segmentation method with applications in emphysema assessment”, Medical Imaging 2006: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, Proc. of SPIE, San Diego, February 2006 (12pag.)
    • - Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira, Joaquim Madeira, Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Perceived Quality of Simplified Poligonal Meshes: Evaluation using Observer Studies”, Proceedings of Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics, SIACG 2006, Santiago de Compostela, July 2006, (10 pags)

 

Comunicações/Palestras Internacionais mais recentes:

    • – Beatriz Sousa Santos – “The Changes I have Made to Visualization Courses in the Last 10 Years”, Eurographics 2012, Cagliari, May 2012 (PDF)
    • – Beatriz Sousa Santos – “Evaluating Visualization: Issues and examples”, Computer Science Kolloquium, Un. Paderborn, April 2012 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, ”Human-Computer Interaction influences on my Visualization work”, Workshop- Building Bridges HCI and Visualization, Interact 2011, Lisbon, September 2011 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, Paulo Santos, Samuel Silva, Carlos Ferreira,  "Usability evaluation in Virtual Environments through empirical studies involving users",  2009 Workshop Challenges in Evaluating Usability and User Experience in Reality Based Interaction, Workshop of the ACM Computer Human Conference CHI2009, Boston, April 2009 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, "Evaluating Visualization Techniques and tools: what are the main issues?, Beliv'08, BEyond times and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization, Workshop of the ACM Computer Human Conference CHI2008, Florence, April 2008 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, "Human-Computer Interaction Courses at DETI- Universidade de Aveiro", ITeach, Human-Computer Interaction British Educators, Aveiro, Março,  2007 (PDF)

 

Comunicações/palestras Nacionais mais recentes:

    • – Beatriz Sousa Santos, “Visão- alguns aspectos relevantes para a Visualização” Programa Doutoral em Artes Interactivas, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica, Porto, Outubro de 2010 (PDF)
    • – Beatriz Sousa Santos, “PhD in Computer Science/Engineering- DETI-UA”, Braga, Setembro de 2010 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, "Introdução à Interacção e Usabilidade: Alguns aspectos importantes no projecto de sistemas interactivos", Critical Software, Coimbra, Novembro, 2008 (PDF)
    • - Beatriz Sousa Santos, "Avaliação em Visualização de Dados: Introdução, alguns aspectos e exemplos", Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Informática ProDEI, FEUP, Porto, Dezembro, 2007 (PDF)

 

Sessões no âmbito do Programa Erasmus:

o        - Beatriz Sousa Santos – “Evaluation in Data and Information Visualization”, Data and Information Visualization, Un. Paderborn, April 2012 (PDF)

o        - Beatriz Sousa Santos – “Stereoscopy and 3D Displays”, Advanced Rendering, Un. Paderborn, April 2012 (PDF)

o        - Beatriz Sousa Santos – “Introduction to Virtual (and other) Realities”, Advanced Rendering, Un. Paderborn, April 2012 (PDF)