Roberto Pereira

Roberto Pereira is a Professor at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), in Curitiba, Brazil, where he teaches and conducts research in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Computing Education, and Culture and Values in Interactive Systems Design. He received the HCI Outstanding Contribution Award from the Brazilian HCI community (2024) and the Outstanding Associate of the Year Award from the Brazilian Computer Society (2022). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Interactive Systems, a diamond open-access journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, and Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Responsible Computing. 

Roberto has served as Associate Editor for the Brazilian Journal on Computers in Education, Editor-in-Chief of the Horizontes Magazine, and as a member of the special Human Computer Interaction (IHC) committee in Brazil (2016-2021). From 2017 to 2025, he was Coordinator (2022-2025) and Deputy-Coordinator (2017-2022) of the UFPR’s Graduate Program in Computer Science — one of the top computing graduate programs in Brazil.

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Contact: rpereira inf ufpr br
Department of Computer Science, Office room 87. Phone: +55 41 3361 3685
Rua Cel. Francisco H. dos Santos, 100 Centro Politécnico, 81531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

Ten SELECTED publications:
  1. Baranauskas, M., Pereira, R., & Bonacin, R. Socially Aware Systems Design: A Perspective Towards Technology-society Coupling. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 16(1), 80-109. 2024. https://doi.org/10.17705/1thci.00201
  2. Pereira, R., Darin, T., & Silveira, M. S. (2024). Grandihc-br: Grand research challenges in human-computer interaction in brazil for 2025-2035. In Proceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3702038.3702061
  3. Ascari, REOS, Silva L, Pereira R. MyPGI-a methodology to yield personalized gestural interaction. Universal Access in the Information Society. 2023 Jan 3:1-26.
  4. Pereira, R., Reis, R., Derenievicz, G., Peres, L. M., Silva, F. Sua Jornada Começa Aqui: gamificando uma disciplina introdutória de computação com uma narrativa distópico-crítica. Revista Brasileira de Informática na Educação, [S. l.], v. 31, p. 1128–1164, 2023. [in Portuguese]
  5. Ortiz, J. S., Moreira, C., Menezes, K., Ferrari, B., Silva Junior, D., & Pereira, R.  Computational Thinking and Mental Models: Promoting Digital Culture in the Youth and Adult Education. Interacting with Computers. 2022.
  6. Pereira, R. Dez Pontos que Precisamos Discutir e Repensar na Pós-Graduação Pública. Revista de Educação Pública. Vol. 31. pp. 1-26. 2022. [in Portuguese]
  7. Piccolo, L.S. and Pereira, R., Culture-based artefacts to inform ICT design: foundations and practice. AI & SOCIETY, 34(3), pp.437+453. 2019.
  8. Pereira, R., Baranauskas, M.C.C. and Liu, K., An Essay on Human Values in HCI. Journal on Interactive Systems, 9(1), pp. 4-16. 2018.
  9. Pereira, R., Baranauskas, M.C.C. A value-oriented and culturally informed approach to the design of interactive systems. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 80: 66-82. 2015.
  10. Baranauskas, M.C.C., de Souza, C.S, Pereira, R. I GranDIHC-BR — Grand Research Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil. Brazilian Computer Society. 2015.