(a bit) About me
That’s me at Entrecampos rail station near Lisbon University
Antonio Barros is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Informatics Department at State University of Pará in Brazil. He completed his PhD in Mathematics Education at Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo in 2015, received a master degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Pernambuco in 1995, and a bachelor degree in Computer Science from Federal Universiy from Pará in 1988. His main research interest is in assistive (learning) technology prototyping with “hobbyist” robotics.
Posdoc at Lisbon University
Since beginning of 2019, I am on leave and I have been a postdoc researcher in Prof. Tiago Guerreiro research group at Lisbon University.
Projects
In 2019 first semester, I had involved in a project to teach basics of programming to children with visual impairment using robotics and tangibles. This project was lead by Ana Pires, also a postdoc researcher, and by professors Tiago Guerreiro and Hugo Nicolau. Now, after data analysis of focus groups with teachers of visual impaired children (TVIs), done as part of the project mentioned, I have been using the WonderPy Python API, the reacTVIsion computer vision framework, and some electronics to track and control the Dash robot using tangibles with NFC tags. This GitHub fork page, I have been working on, has more detalis.