Ana Patrícia Rocha
Researcher
aprocha [at] ua [dot] pt
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Status
Integrated Researcher
Research Group
Affiliation
IEETA, University of Aveiro
Ciência ID
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Description
Ana Patrícia Rocha received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Telematics Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 2010 and 2012 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto, Portugal (joint doctoral program) in 2019.
She is currently a Junior Researcher at at the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (DETI), University of Aveiro, in the context of FCT’s Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC).
She has participated in different research projects since 2012, including MISC, Vital Responder 2.0, Smart Green Homes, APH-ALARM, and OLI Health. Her research interests include Sensor-Based Human Monitoring, Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction, Assistive Technologies, Smart Homes, and Biomedical Engineering.
Projects
Publications
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2026
Exploring Lower-Limb PPG Signals for Biometric Identification Proceedings - 2026 IEEE 50th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2026, 2351–2356
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2026
Exploring User Identification During Radar-Based Gesture Interaction FG 2026 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
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2026
Moving Toward Natural Gesture Interaction: Understanding User Preferences in Smart Homes Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 16109 LNCS, 157–166
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2025
Aktiv@Home: System for Monitoring the Activity of Older People at Home ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 178–187
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2025
In-bed gesture recognition to support the communication of people with Aphasia Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 109, 102029
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2025
Integrating Conversational Assistants with Smart Mirrors for Mental Health Assessment UbiComp Companion 2025 - Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 1202–1208
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2025
Kitchen Assistant for Active Ageing at Home ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 193–202
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2025
Radar-Based Human Activity Monitoring for 5G-Connected Smart Homes GoodIT 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, 179–184
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2025
User Identification Based on a Photoplethysmography Sensor for Biometrics in Smart Environments Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2371 CCIS, 495–510
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2025
Your Health in the Mirror: A Critical Analysis of Health and Well-Being Monitoring by Smart Mirrors International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 133–138
