Interactive Technologies Institute

👩🏻‍🏫 Researchers from the contributed to the ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2026) in Chicago .
The conference included three pictorials and one full paper from ITI researchers exploring movement interaction, hydrocommons and freediving practices, more-than-human temporalities, and sensory data dialogues.

📄Pictorials:
•Staying with the Underwater Trouble: Exploring the Hydrocommons through Freediving
Beatrice Maggipinto, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes & Jessica Hammer
•Sketching More-than-human Times: Rethinking Temporal Representations through Embodied, Entangled, and Deep Time
Valentina Nisi, Marta Ferreira & Larissa Pschetz
•In-Situ Seeding: Entangling Place & Technology through Sensory Data Dialogues
Courtney N. Reed, Marta Ferreira, Mónica Mendes, Pedro Galvão-Ferreira, Mathilde Gouin, Fiona Bell & collaborators

📄Full paper:
• Supporting entrainment using latent space mappings and generative sound feedback during dyadic movement exercises
William Primett & Nuno N. Correia

We are also represented in the long-term organisation of the conference series. Augusto Esteves (ITI/LARSyS) serves on the TEI Steering Committee and will chair ACM TEI 2027 in Lisbon!

Congrats to all involved 🎉

📕 The new book “Interspecies”, edited by Mariana Pestana .pestana , documents the co-curated exhibition developed at Centro de Arquitetura MAC/CCB .museu and the collaborative research shaped with researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute
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Co-published with Bartlebooth the publication examines interspecies practices in architecture and design through a sustained curatorial inquiry.
Grounded in feminist and posthumanist frameworks, the book advances the hypothesis of a “New Romanticism” and positions exhibition design as a research practice.
🦩 Contributors from ITI:
Anna Bertmark
Bernardo Gaeiras .gaeiras
Carlos Pastor
Fernanda Costa
Katerina Inglezaki
Mariana Simões .tpsimoes
Mathilde Gouin
Valentina Demarchi

With invited contributions from Coletivo FIELD , Coletivo Frame , KWY.studio .studio , Studio Ossidiana and SUPERFLEX

Images via Bartlebooth Publisher
More via link in bio.

✨Call for Expressions of Interest | PhD Researcher – TIDAL ArtS

The Interactive Technologies Institute is inviting expressions of interest for one PhD researcher position in Architecture or Digital Media, within the EU-funded TIDAL ArtS project.
📍 Lisbon
📅 Deadline: 7 February 2026
More information and how to apply in our website: iti.larsys.pt

🎧 Education about Climate Change through a VR Experience

On November 14th, Professor Laurie Heller from Carnegie Mellon University delivered a talk at the Interactive Technologies Institute on the topic of how virtual reality can motivate climate action.
Her research explores how emotions like hope and despair shape our response to the climate crisis.
During her visit to ITI (Nov 1–20), she worked with researchers on the Portuguese adaptation of her AnimalPOV VR project — an immersive experience that lets participants see the world through animal perspectives.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.auditorylab.org/portuguese-vr