Heloisa Moura


Welcome to my Homepage. My name is Heloisa Moura and I hold a Ph.D. degree in Human-Centered Communication Design from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. If you want to get a taste of my work, check the ThinkeringSpace project (www.ThinkeringSpaces.org). Feel free to contact me by email at moura@id.iit.edu.	Introduction	Interdisciplinary is the best adjective to qualify my academic background, which combines the fields of Design, Computer Science, Education, Communication, Mathematics, Art and Psychology. Also part of my personal history is knowledge of different cultures, as I have lived on several continents, for significant periods of time, including Europe and Asia, besides North and South America. The advantage that all this brings is a familiarity with diverse fields of knowledge and cultures, allowing me look at the world from multiple points of view.
	Interests	I have a broad interest in multimodal interaction and human cognition. My focus is on understanding human multimodal interaction within Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments and Adaptive Systems, with attention to future developments.
	Ph.D. Research	Entitled ‘Bringing multimodality and affordances to design of Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments’, my thesis examined graduate learning environments making use of a broad range of technologies and proposed a methodological framework for guiding innovative design.
	Methods	My tool box combines qualitative and quantitative methods, and uses five human factors frameworks, related to physical, cognitive, emotional, social and cultural factors involved in people's interactions with products, systems, organizations, and messages. It includes user observation and other ethnographic research methods, prototyping (scenarios, conceptual, behavioral and procedural prototypes), interaction design and collaborative-content-systems methods, structured planning methods and statistical analysis methods.