Nuno Palmeiro Otero

Dr Nuno Otero PhD

Senior Lecturer in Data Science

Nuno Otero is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. He is interested in theories and conceptual frameworks in HCI, and Technology-Enhanced Learning. In a nutshell, the question driving his research concerns the understanding of how the properties of distinct devices, computational artefacts and embedded external representations impact on people’s activities (from work-related activities to educational and ludic contexts).

He has received support for his research from the: European Commission, Swedish Research Council, Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal). He has been involved in grants in worth in excess of £5m.

Before his current appointment:

  • Associate Professor of Media Technology, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2016–2022
  • Senior Lecturer of Media Technology, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2013-2016
  • Senior Researcher, University of Minho, Portugal, 2008–2013
  • Senior Researcher, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2005-2008
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, INESC- ID, Portugal, 2002-2005

Computer science

Responsibilities within the university

Module leader

  • User Interface Design
  • Accessible User Interfaces
  • Research Methods for Game Design

Awards
Research Grants
2020–2022

Erasmus+ (European Union funding), project coordinator, “Science4Girls”, Grant agreement: 2020-1-SE01-KA201-077811, project number: 202100-627. Budget for Linnaeus University: €48.501

2015–2017 Erasmus+ (European Union funding), PI for Linnaeus University, “Empowering the School IT infrastructures for the Implementation of Sustainable Instructional Patterns" (eSIT4SIP), budget for the Linnaeus University: €83,295
2012–2015 European Commission FP7 framework, co-I (PI for Linnaeus University: Prof. Marcelo Milrad), “JuxtaLearn”, budget for the Linnaeus University: €417,936
2012–2015 Swedish Research Council, co-I (PI for Linnaeus University: Prof. Marcelo Milrad), “Places”, budget for the Linnaeus University: €400,000
2010–2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, co-I (PI: Dr. Pedro Branco), “Processing of Social Signals”, budget for the University of Minho: €106,000
2010–2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, co-I (PI for University of Minho: Dr Rui José), “Mobipag”, €337,852
2010–2013 European Commission FP7 framework, co-I (PI for University of Minho: Dr Rui José), “PD-Net”, €389,760
2009–2012

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, co-I (PI for University of Minho: Dr Rui José), “WESP”, €81,670

Recognition
Advisory Groups

External evaluator for the Portuguese higher education accreditation agency (A3ES).

Advisory board for the research group DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Research / Scholarly interests

Research topics

  • Ethical issues concerning the adoption and use of Learning Analytics in Education.
  • AI literacy and the understanding of ethical issues from a users’ perspective.
  • Technology-enhanced learning.

Research supervision

Doctoral Students
  • Maxmilian Muller (co-supervisor, Linnaeus University, since 2013).
  • Martin Ostlund (co-supervisor, Linnaeus University, since 2013).
  • Johanna Velander (co-supervisor, Linnaeus University, since 2021).
  • Dag Sverre Syrdal (co-supervisor, University of Hertfordshire, finished in 2018).

Recent publications

Book section

Velander, Johanna , Palmeiro Otero, Nuno, Pargman, Teresa Cerratto, Milrad, Marcelo (2021), "We know what you were doing". Springer Nature. In: , , In: Muhittin Sahin, Dirk Ifenthaler (eds.), Visualizations and Dashboards for Learning Analytics. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland (1st) . pp. 323-347 . ISBN: 9783030812225; 9783030812218 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81222-5_15) NB Item availability restricted.

Conference proceedings

Jansen, Marc , Kohen-Vacs, Dan, Otero, Nuno, Milrad, Marcelo (2018), A complementary view for better understanding the term computational thinking. The Hong Kong Jockey Club. In: International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2018, , In: Kong S.C., Andone D., Biswas G., Crick T., Hoppe H.U., Hsu T.C., Huang R.H., Li K.Y., Looi C.K., Milrad M. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2018. The Hong Kong Jockey Club, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (1st) . pp. 2-7 . ISBN: 9789887703457ISSN: 2664-035X (Print), 2664-5661 (Online) (doi: https://www.eduhk.hk/cte2018/).

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