Roberto Pereira

PhD in Computer Science, I work as a professor and researcher at the Department of Informatics, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil. Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Campinas, and Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading – UK. From 2015 to 2019, I have served as Associate Editor for the Brazilian Journal on Computers in Education, and as a member of the special Human Computer Interaction (IHC) committee in Brazil (2016-2021). Currently, I am working as:

• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Interactive Systems (JIS)(2020-)
• Editor-in-Chief of the Horizontes Magazine (2019-)
• Deputy Coordinator of the UFPR’s Graduate Program in Computer Science (2017-)

Research areas:

• Human-Computer Interaction, Informatics in Education and Organizational Semiotics.

Interests:

• Human Values and Culture in technology design, Socially Aware Design, User eXperience, Computational Thinking, Social Software.