Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Ph.D.

Assistant Instructional Professor

Bio

Alexandre G. de Siqueira, Ph.D., is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. His research focuses on human-centered computing and human-computer interaction. This work includes investigating the intersection between tangible user interfaces, multi-touch, augmented, and virtual reality and examining Virtual 3D Social Spaces for enhanced learning environments. He is also interested in the maker movement, and how rapid digital prototyping can be brought to the masses. He has collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams of musicians, communication scientists, psychologists, and physicians both from the academy and the industry across multiple projects.

Previously, Dr. Siqueira worked for Accenture for over ten years as a developer, team lead, manager, and consultant in diverse industries such as electricity, oil, and gas. He holds an MBA from Fudação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Clemson University.

Primary Research Area

Human-Centered Computing

Research Areas

CS Education Research, Digital Health, Educational Technologies, Human-Centered Computing, Human-Computer Interaction for Health, Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Education

B.S., Computer Science, University of São Paulo, 2005
M.B.A., Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2009
Ph.D., Human-Centered Computing, 2019, Clemson University

Research Interests

Human-centered Computing, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Tangible Interaction, Computer Science Education, Asymmetric Collaboration.

Publications

G. de Siqueira, A., Feijoo Garcia, P. G., Stuart, J., & Lok, B. (2021). “Toward Facilitating Team Formation and Communication Through Avatar Based Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments”. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 33.

Alexandre G. de Siqueira, Pedro G. Feijoó-García, and Sean P. Stanley. " BlockXR: a Novel Tangible Block-based Programming Environment." IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC). IEEE, 2021.

Alexandre G. de Siqueira, Heng Yao, Anokhi Bafna, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Jenelle Richards, Lauren Lloveras, Kathleen Feeney, Stephanie Morris, Erica D. Musser, Benjamin Lok, Igor Galynker “Investigating the Effects of Virtual Patients’ Nonsensical Responses on Users’ Facial Expressions in Mental Health Training Scenarios.” International Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2021

Alexandre G. de Siqueira, Ayush Bhargava, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Roshan Venkatakrishnan. “PPCards: Toward Enhancing Electronic Prototyping with Editions of a Card-based Platform.” 15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 2021 – (Honorable Mention Award)

Alexandre G. de Siqueira, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Ayush Bhargava, Kathryn Lucaites, Hannah Solini, Moloud Nasiri, Andrew Robb, Christopher Pagano, Brygg Ullmer, Sabarish V. Babu. “Empirically Evaluating the Effects of Perceptual Information Channels on the Size Perception of Tangibles in Near-Field Virtual Reality” in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2021