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... Hugo Humberto Plácido da Silva

Researcher

Hugo Silva

Academic position: Researcher
Joining date: 09-01-2004
Roles in IT: Researcher
Scientific Area: Networks and Multimedia
Group: Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

ORCID iD
https://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-8432

Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 04-09-2015
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2007
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, 01-09-2004
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Biosignal Acquisition and Analysis
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, 24-10-2016, Invited Adjunct Professor
  • ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, 01-01-2013, Affilliate
  • INSTICC, 01-01-2013,
  • Ordem dos Engenheiros, 01-01-2012, Affilliate
  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-2010, Senior Member
  • Ordem dos Engenheiros, 01-01-2007 - 31-12-2011, Affilliate
  • PLUX Wireless Biosignals, 01-01-2007, Board
3Lecture courses
  • Pattern Recognition, Escola Sup. Tecn. Inst. Pol. Setúbal, Mestrado em Informática de Gestão
  • Artificial Intelligence, Escola Sup. Tecn. Inst. Pol. Setúbal, Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática
  • Telemedicine, Escola Sup. Tecn. Inst. Pol. Setúbal, Licenciatura em Tecnologias Biomédicas
Supervision of theses
3MSc Student
  • Aquisição e validação de sinais biomédicos com recurso a equipamento de baixo custo, MSc Student, Hélio Bruno Marques Lourenço, 12-2018
  • Towards an Integrated Electrocardiography System for Digital Stethoscopes, MSc Student, Mónica Martins, 07-2018
  • Development of Didactic Physics Experiments using a Miniaturized Wireless Acquisition Board, MSc Student, João Filipe Pereira Domingues Alho, 11-2017
2BSc Student
  • ServerBIT: Biosignals proxy for data streaming in broadcast / multicast, BSc Student, João Pedro Gomes, 12-2017
  • Mobile Application for Control of a Prosthetic Hand, BSc Student, Pedro Filipe Costa, 11-2017
Co-Supervision of theses
5MSc Student
  • Sistema para Monitorização de Atletas durante o Treino, MSc Student, Eduardo Filipe Ramos Félix, 11-2018
  • Development of an Open-Source Python Toolbox for Heart Rate Variability (HRV), MSc Student, Pedro Miguel Caridade Gomes, 11-2018
  • Comparison of the Mobile ECG Device BITalino with an Established Laboratory ECG system, MSc Student, Ruth Wagner, 09-2018
  • AidDis - Embedded Systems In The Aid of People with Motor Disabilities, MSc Student, Maria Margarida Dias dos Reis, 05-2017
  • Sistema de Aquisição e Análise de Sinais em Ambiente Desportivo, MSc Student, Jorge Miguel Silverio do Carmo, 06-2015
1BSc Student
  • Design and Testing of an Enclosure for the Integration of Electrocardiography (ECG) in a 3M Littmann 3200 Digital Stethoscope,, BSc Student, Miguel Ângelo Burt Costa Ferreira da Rocha, 07-2018
2Research Grant
  • Sistema de Reconhecimento Biométrico por Identificação Baseado em Sinais de ECG, Research Grant, Daniel Santos, 09-2010
  • MonitorPLUX Android: Sistema de Telemonitorização Baseado na Plataforma Android, Research Grant, Nuno Paz, 09-2010
1Books
  • H. Silva, A. H. Holzinger, S. Fairclough, D. Majoe, Physiological Computing Systems, Springer, Heidelberg, 2014,
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9Books Chapters
  • A. Lemos, C. Oliveira, G. Telo, H. Silva, Bridging the clinic-home divide in muscular bridging the clinic-home divide in muscular rehabilitation, Chapter in, Biofeedback, Mark Schwartz, Intech Open, London, 2018
  • H. Silva, The Biosignal C.A.O.S.: Reflections on the usability of physiological sensing for human-computer interaction practitioners and researchers, Chapter in, Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II, Jaime Ibáñez, José González-Vargas, José María Azorín, Metin Akay, José Luis Pons, Springer International Publishing, , 2016
  • H. Silva, bioPLUX clinical - Dispositivo médico inovador para fisioterapia e medicina de reabilitação baseada em biofeedback, Chapter in, Engenharia pt - Uma via verde para o desenvolvimento tecnológico e económico de Portugal, Grupo Editorial Vida Económica, Porto, 2014
  • A. P. Alves Alves, João Martins Martins, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, H. F. Ferreira, Paper-based inkjet electrodes: Experimental study for ECG applications, Chapter in, Physiological Computing Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2014
  • A. Lourenço, S. Bulo Bulo, C. C. Carreiras, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, M. Pelillo, Dominant Set Approach to ECG Biometrics, Chapter in, CIARP 2013, Part I, LNCS 8258 proceedings, ?, Springer, Havana, 2013
  • H. Silva, R. S. Scherer, J. Sousa, A. R. Londral, Towards improving the usability of electromyographic interfaces, Chapter in, Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2013
  • A. R. Londral, N. Nunes, H. Silva, M. C. Carvalho, L. A. Azevedo, Enhancing communication through biosignals in severe neuromuscular conditions, Chapter in, Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, 2013
  • H. Gamboa, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Electrophysiological Multimodal Biometrics, Chapter in, Multibiometrics Systems: Modern Perspectives to Identity Verification, Dakshina Kisku, Phalguni Gupta and Massimo Tistarelli, Germany, 2012
  • H. Silva, S. P. Palma, H. Gamboa, AAL+: Continuous Institutional and Home Care Through Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Systems, Chapter in, Handbook of Digital Homecare, Lodewijk Bos, Adrie Dumay, Leonard Goldschmidt, Griet Verhenneman and Kanagasingam Yogesan, Springer, 2011
30Papers in Journals
  • DB Batista, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, C. F. Moreira, H. F. Ferreira, Benchmarking of the BITalino Biomedical Toolkit Against an Established Gold Standard, IET Healthcare Technology Letters, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 32 - 36, May, 2019,
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  • C. Cepeda, R. Tonet, D. Osório, H. Silva, E. Battegay, M. Cheetham, H. Gamboa, Latent: a flexible data collection tool to research human behaviour in the context of web navigation, IEEE Access, Vol., No., pp. 1 - 1, May, 2019,
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  • S. O’Sullivan, Z. Ali, X. Jiang, R. Abdolvand, S. Ünlü, H. Silva, J. Baca, B. Kim, S. Scott, M. Sajid, S. Moradian, H. Mansoorzare, A. H. Holzinger, Developments in Transduction, Connectivity and AI/Machine Learning for Point-of-Care Testing, MDPI Sensors, Vol. 19, No. 1917, pp. -, April, 2019,
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  • M. Martins, P. Gomes, C.O Oliveira, M. Coimbra, H. Silva, Design and Evaluation of a Diaphragm for Electrocardiography in Electronic Stethoscopes, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. ., No. ., pp. 1 - 3, April, 2019 | BibTex
  • J. Alho, H. Silva, V. Teodoro, G. Bonfait, A Simple Pendulum Studied with a Low-cost Wireless Acquisition Board, Physics Education, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 1 - 12, November, 2018,
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  • H. Silva, H. F. Ferreira, H. Silva, L. M. Rodrigues, The Venoarteriolar Reflex Significantly Reduces Contralateral Perfusion as Part of the Lower Limb Circulatory Homeostasis In Vivo, Frontiers in Physiology, Vol. 9, No. 1123, pp. 1 - 9, August, 2018,
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  • H. Silva, Physiological sensing now open to the world: New resources are allowing us to learn, experiment, and create imaginative solutions for biomedical applications, IEEE Pulse, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 9 - 11, March, 2018 | BibTex
  • S. O. Ouakinin, S. E. Eusébio, M. T. Torrado, H. Silva, I. N. Nabais, G. G. Gonçalves, L. B.-N. Bacelar-Nicolau, Stress reactivity, distress and attachment in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 424 - 438, December, 2015 | BibTex
  • B. Gamecho, H. Silva, J. Guerreiro Guerreiro, L. Gardeazabal, J. Abascal, Context-aware application to increase compliance of physical rehabilitation exercises at home via animatronic biofeedback in elderly users, Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 296 - 306, August, 2015,
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  • S. Fairclough, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, K. Gilleade, S. B. Badia, Applications and issues for physiological computing systems: An introduction to the special issue, Interacting with Computers, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 489 - 491, July, 2015 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, C. C. Carreiras, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, R. César das Neves, R. Ferreira, Off-the Person Electrocardiography: Performance Assessment and Clinical Correlation, Health and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 309 - 318, February, 2015,
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  • M. T. Torrado, H. Silva, S. E. Eusébio, A. L. N. Fred, S. O. Ouakinin, Alexithymia, physiological reactivity and cognitive appraisals of emotional stimuli in opiate dependents: A pilot study, Journal of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1 - 8, January, 2015 | BibTex
  • M. Lucas da Silva, D. Gonçalves, H. Silva, User-tuned Content Customization for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 27, No., pp. 441 - 448, November, 2014 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, RCM Martins, Biosignals for Everyone, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 64 - 71, October, 2014 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, RCM Martins, BIT: Biosignal Igniter Toolkit, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 20 - 32, June, 2014 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Harnessing the Power of Biosignals, IEEE Computer, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 74 - 77, March, 2014 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, N. Raposo, M. Aires-de-Sousa, Check Your Biosignals Here: A New Dataset for Off-the-Person ECG Biometrics, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 113, No. 2, pp. 503 - 514, February, 2014 | Full text (PDF 3 MBs) | BibTex
  • H. Silva, S. Fairclough, A. H. Holzinger, R. Jacob, D. Tan, Introduction to the special issue on physiological computing for human-computer interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1 - 4, January, 2014,
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  • A. R. Londral, H. Silva, N. Nunes, M. C. Carvalho, L. A. Azevedo, A wireless user-computer interface to explore various sources of biosignals and visual biofeedback for severe motor impairment, Journal of Accessibility and Design for All, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 117 - 135, November, 2013 | BibTex
  • H. Gamboa, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, HiMotion: A New Research Resource for the Study of Behavior, Cognition, and Emotion, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol., No., pp. 1 - 31, July, 2013 | BibTex
  • DPC Antão, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, A. L. N. Fred, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Novel fiducial and non-fiducial approaches to electrocardiogram-based biometrics systems, IET Biometrics, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 64 - 75, June, 2013,
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  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, M. T. Torrado, S. E. Eusébio, S. O. Ouakinin, Psychophysiological measurements in emotion analysis and research, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vol. 82, No. 1 (suppl.), pp. 117 - 117, April, 2013 | BibTex
  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, C. C. Carreiras, A. P. Alves Alves, A. L. N. Fred, A web-based platform for biosignal visualization and annotation, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. ?, No. ?, pp. 1 - 28, February, 2013,
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  • F. Pires, A. Gil Pascoal, H. Silva, The assessment of the pelvic floor muscles strenght using a perineometer and a time-based processing approach, Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 45, No. 1 (suppl.), pp. S69 - S69, November, 2012 | BibTex
  • L. Warmerdam, H. Riper, M. Klein, P. van de Ven, A.R. Rocha, M. R. Henriques, E. Tousset, H. Silva, G. Andersson, P. Cujipers, Innovative ICT solutions to improve treatment outcomes for depression: The ICT4Depression project, Journal of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 181, No., pp. 339 - 343, September, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Lucas da Silva, D. Gonçalves, T. Guerreiro, H. Silva, A Web-Based Application to Address Individual Interests of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 14, No., pp. 20 - 27, July, 2012,
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  • R. Tomás, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, V. Lee, S. Going, Effects of Whole-Body Vibration on Vastus Lateralis Activation During Isometric and Dynamic Squatting, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, Vol., No. 49, pp. 139 - 140, July, 2011,
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  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Unveiling the Biometric Potential of Finger-Based ECG Signals, Vol. 2011, No. 5, pp. -, January, 2011,
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  • A. C. Conceição, S. P. Palma, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, H. L. Louro, Electromyography in Front Crawl Technique- Case Study, Open Sports Science Journal, Vol. 3, No., pp. 67 - 69, May, 2010,
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  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Pairwise Multi-Class Feature Selection: A Wrapper Framework, WSEAS Trans. on Systems and Control, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 212 - 217, February, 2007,
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96Papers in Conferences
  • P. F. Costa, M. Rocha, R. Baptista, H. Silva, GripIT: A Mobile Isometric Handgrip Test for Evaluation of Autonomic Cardiovascular Reflexes in Non-Clinical Applications, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Berlin, Germany, Vol., pp. -, July, 2019,
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  • J. Pinto, A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, Biosignal-Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition in a Valence-Arousal Affective Framework Applied to Immersive Video Visualization, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Berlin, Germany, Vol., pp. -, July, 2019,
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  • C. Tavares, M. F. Domingues, N. Alberto, A. Ramos, E. Rocon de Lima, P.S André, H. Silva, P. Antunes, Bio-inspired optical fiber sensor for simultaneous shear stress and vertical pressure monitoring, SPIE SPIE Optics+ Optoelectronics, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol., pp. -, April, 2019 | BibTex
  • J. Marques, S. Ramos, M. Macedo, H. Silva, Study of Mechanomyographic Alternatives to EMG Sensors for a Low-Cost Open Source Bionic Hand, European Alliance for Innovation International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare HealthyIoT, Guimarães, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, November, 2018,
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  • D. Osório, A. Pitães, N. M. P. G. Gonçalves, R. Freitas, C. Ribeiro, R. Sá, H. Gamboa, H. Silva, Comparison of Different Polymeric Materials for Mobile Off-the-Person ECG, European Alliance for Innovation International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare HealthyIoT, Guimarães, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, November, 2018,
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  • M.D. Reis, H. Silva, RepoBIT: Cloud-Driven Real-Time Biosignal Streaming, Storage, Visualisation and Sharing, European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 777 - 781, September, 2018,
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  • H. Lourenço, V. Sanfins, S. Ala, F. Barros, H. Silva, M. Reis, Empirical evaluation of the potential of low-cost and open source "on-the-person" ECG for cardiopathy pre-screening, International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Seville, Spain, Vol., pp. 115 - 122, September, 2018,
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  • M. Martinho, A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, Towards Continuous User Recognition by Exploring Physiological Multimodality: An Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) Approach, IEEE International Symposium on Sensing and Intrumentation in IoT Era ISSI, Shanghai, China, Vol., pp. -, September, 2018,
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  • M.D. Reis, H. Silva, LoggerBIT: An Optimization of the OpenLog Board for Data Logging with Low Cost Hardware Platforms for Biomedical Applications, International Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. 600 - 604, July, 2018,
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  • A. Manso, M. Martinho, H. Silva, A. Cabrita, A Novel Platform for Distributed and Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Animal Model Behavior in a Bioterium, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Jeju, Korea, South, Vol., pp. ? - ?, July, 2017 | BibTex
  • D. Batista, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Experimental Characterization and Analysis of the BITalino Platforms Against a Reference Device, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Jeju, Korea, South, Vol., pp. -, July, 2017 | Full text (PDF 773 KBs) | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Recent Advances in Pervasive Electrocardiography (ECG), Semana da Inovação ULisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, April, 2017 | BibTex
  • V. Charisis, K. Kyritsis, E. Konstantinidis, A. Delopoulos, P. Bamidis, S. Bostanjopoulou, A. Rizos, D. Trivedi, R. Chaudhuri, L. Klingelhoefer, H. Reichmann, J. Wadoux, N. Craecker, F. Karayannis, P. Fagerberg, I. Ioakeimidis, M. Stadtschnitzer, A. Esser, N. Grammalidis, K. Dimitropoulos, S. Dias, J. Diniz, H. Silva, G. Lyberopoulos, E. Theodoropoulou, L. Hadjileontiadis, Active and Healthy Ageing for Parkinson's Disease Patients' Support: A User's Perspective within the i-PROGNOSIS Framework, Int'l Conf. on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing TISHW, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. n.a., pp. 1 - 6, December, 2016 | BibTex
  • V. Charisis, K. Kyritsis, E. Konstantinidis, A. Delopoulos, P. Bamidis, S. Bostanjopoulou, A. Rizos, D. Trivedi, R. Chaudhuri, L. Klingelhoefer, H. Reichmann, J. Wadoux, N. Craecker, F. Karayannis, P. Fagerberg, I. Ioakeimidis, M. Stadtschnitzer, A. Esser, N. Grammalidis, K. Dimitropoulos, S. Dias, J. Diniz, H. Silva, G. Lyberopoulos, E. Theodoropoulou, L. Hadjileontiadis, Active and Healthy Ageing for Parkinson's Disease Patients' Support: A User's Perspective within the i-PROGNOSIS Framework, Int'l Conf. on Technology and Innovation in Sports, Health and Wellbeing TISHW, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. n.a., pp. 1 - 6, December, 2016 | BibTex
  • N. Pombo, N. M. Garcia, H. Silva, P. Fazendeiro, A. Pinto Pinto, G. Dias, V. F. Felizardo, Electrocardiography, Electromyography, and Accelerometry Signals Collected with BITalino While Swimming: Device Assembly and Preliminary Results, IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2016,
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  • J. Rosa, H. Silva, R.M. Matias, A web-based framework using a model-view-controller architecture for human motion analysis, IEEE 4th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering 2015 (ENBENG), Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, February, 2015 | BibTex
  • B. Gamecho, J. Guerreiro Guerreiro, A. P. Alves Alves, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, L. Gardeazabal, J. Abascal, A. L. N. Fred, Evaluation of a Context-Aware Application for Mobile Robot Control Mediated by Physiological Data: The ToBITas Case Study, Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services UCAmI, Belfast, United Kingdom, Vol. 8867, pp. 147 - 154, December, 2014,
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  • A. Lourenço, C. C. Carreiras, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, ECG Biometrics: A template selection approach, IEEE International Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, June, 2014,
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  • H. Silva, J. Guerreiro Guerreiro, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, RCM Martins, BITalino: A Novel Hardware Framework for Physiological Computing, International Conf. Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 246 - 253, January, 2014,
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  • A. P. Alves Alves, João Martins Martins, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, H. F. Ferreira, Experimental Study and Evaluation of Paper-based Inkjet Electrodes for ECG Signal Acquisition, International Conf. Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 275 - 281, January, 2014,
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  • M. Lucas da Silva, H. Silva, D. Gonçalves, Inducing behaviour change of children with autism spectrum disorders by monitoring their attention, International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 131 - 136, January, 2014 | BibTex
  • M. Lucas da Silva, H. Silva, D. Gonçalves, Rapid application development to create proof-of-concept software applications, International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 299 - 306, January, 2014 | BibTex
  • J. Guerreiro Guerreiro, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Performance Comparison of Low-cost Hardware Platforms Targeting Physiological Computing Applications, Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. 399 - 406, December, 2013,
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  • C. C. Carreiras, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, Exploring heartbeat sub-patterns for person identification, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, November, 2013 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, A. K. Jain, Finger ECG Signal for User Authentication: Usability and Performance, IEEE International Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems - BTAS, Washington DC, United States, Vol., pp. 1 - 8, September, 2013,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • H. Silva, C. C. Carreiras, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, Off-the-person Electrocardiography, International Congress on Cardiovasular Technologies - CARDIOTECHNIX, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, September, 2013 | BibTex
  • C. C. Carreiras, A. Lourenço, H. Aidos, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Morphological ECG Analysis for Attention Detection, International Conf. on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - NTCA, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, September, 2013,
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  • C. C. Carreiras, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Comparative Study of Medical-grade and Off-the-person ECG Systems, International Workshop on Pervasive Electrocardiography - IWoPE, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, September, 2013,
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  • M. Lucas da Silva, D. Gonçalves, H. Silva, Simplifying user-tuned content management in assistive software, Conf. of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe AAATE, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 321 - 325, September, 2013 | BibTex
  • A. R. Londral, J. Sousa, T. Araújo, H. Silva, Enhancing interaction of persons with cerebral palsy using biosignals detection, Conf. of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe AAATE, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 1051 - 1055, September, 2013 | BibTex
  • A. L. N. Fred, J. Guerreiro Guerreiro, RCM Martins, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, BITalino:A Multimodal Platform for Physiological Computing, International Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO, Reykjavik, Iceland, Vol. 1, pp. 500 - 506, July, 2013,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 9 MBs) | BibTex
  • A. P. Alves Alves, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, SignalBIT: A web-based platform for real-time biosignal visualization and recording, International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Reykjavik, Iceland, Vol., pp. 156 - 162, July, 2013,
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  • H. Silva, A. P. Alves Alves, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, I. Montalvão, L. Alegre, Towards the Detection of Deception in Interactive Multimedia Environments, Human-Computer Interaction & Knowledge Discovery HCI-KDD, Maribor, Slovenia, Vol., pp. 65 - 76, July, 2013 | BibTex
  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, C. C. Carreiras, A. L. N. Fred, Outlier Detection in Non-Intrusive ECG Biometric System, International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, June, 2013 | BibTex
  • C. C. Carreiras, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, A Unifying Approach to ECG Biometric Recognition Using the Wavelet Transform, International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, June, 2013,
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  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, C. C. Carreiras, A. L. N. Fred, Outlier Detection in Non-intrusive ECG Biometric System, AIMI International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition - ICIAR, Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, Vol. 7950, pp. 43 - 52, June, 2013,
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  • C. C. Carreiras, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, A Unifying Approach to ECG Biometric Recognition Using the Wavelet Transform, AIMI International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition - ICIAR, Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, Vol. 7950, pp. 53 - 62, June, 2013,
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  • A. P. Alves Alves, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, I. Montalvão, Uncovering lying detection using blood volume pulse and electrodermal activity, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol., pp. 265 - 268, May, 2013 | BibTex
  • C. C. Carreiras, H. Aidos, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Exploratory EEG Analysis Using Clustering and Phase-Locking Factor, INSTICC International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 0, pp. 77 - 88, February, 2013,
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  • H. Aidos, C. C. Carreiras, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Evidence Accumulation Approach applied to EEG Analysis, International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 0, pp. 479 - 484, February, 2013,
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  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, F. A. L. Canento, A. L. N. Fred, ECG Biometrics: Principles and Applications, International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC, , Spain, Vol., pp. 215 - 220, February, 2013,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
  • A. P. Alves Alves, H. F. Silva, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, BITalino: A Biosignal Acquisition System based on the Arduino, INSTICC International Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Biodevices, Barcelona, Spain, Vol., pp. 261 - 264, February, 2013,
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  • M. S. Santos Santos, A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, EIGEN HEARTBEATS FOR USER IDENTIFICATION, International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. -, pp. - - -, February, 2013,
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  • C. C. Carreiras, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, StorageBIT: A Metadata-aware, Extensible, Semantic, and Hierarchical Database for Biosignals, INSTICC International Conf. on Health Informatics - Healthinf, Barcelona, Spain, Vol., pp. 65 - 74, February, 2013,
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  • M. Canovas Cânovas, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, MobileBIT: A Framework for Mobile Interaction Recording and Display, INSTICC International Conf. on Health Informatics - Healthinf, Barcelona, Spain, Vol., pp. 366 - 369, February, 2013,
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  • F. A. L. Canento, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, On Real Time ECG Algorithms for Biometric Applications, International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, February, 2013,
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  • A. H. Holzinger, C. S. Stocker, M. B. Bruschi, A. A. Auinger, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, A. L. N. Fred, On Applying Approximate Entropy to ECG Signals for Knowledge Discovery on the Example of Big Sensor Data, International Conference on Active Media Technology AMT, Macau, China, Vol., pp. 646 - 657, December, 2012 | BibTex
  • H. C. Chandra, I. O. Oakley, H. Silva, Designing to Support Prescribed Home Exercises: Understanding the Needs of Physiotherapy Patients, Nordic Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction - NordiCHI, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vol., pp. 607 - 616, October, 2012,
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  • A. P. Alves Alves, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, A biosignal acquisition platform based on Arduino and Android, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Canovas Cânovas, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, F. A. L. Canento, A. L. N. Fred, Mobile framework for biosignal acquisition and remote processing, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2012 | BibTex
  • C. Simões, F. Botelho, H. Silva, M. Lucas da Silva, Troc@s - A Multimedia Platform for Communicative Competence Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, European Educational Research Association European Conf. on Educational Research - ECER, Cádiz, Spain, Vol., pp. -, September, 2012 | BibTex
  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, ECG-Based Biometrics: A Real Time Classification Approach, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Santander, Spain, Vol., pp. -, September, 2012 | BibTex
  • R. S. Santos, J. Sousa, C. M. Marques, H. Gamboa, H. Silva, Towards emotion related feature extraction based on generalized source-independent event detection, International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 71 - 78, September, 2012 | BibTex
  • J. Santinha, J. Sousa, H. Gamboa, H. Silva, Real time dose response assessment tool applicable in exercise therapy, International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 91 - 95, September, 2012 | BibTex
  • A. R. Londral, N. Nunes, H. Silva, M. C. Carvalho, L. A. Azevedo, Enhancing Communication Through Biosignals in Severe Neuromuscular Conditions, International Conf. on NeuroRehabilitation - ICNR, Toledo, Spain, Vol., pp. -, August, 2012,
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  • H. Silva, R. S. Scherer, J. Sousa, A. R. Londral, Towards Improving the Usability of Electromyographic Interfaces, International Conf. on NeuroRehabilitation - ICNR, Toledo, Spain, Vol., pp. -, August, 2012,
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  • H. Silva, NA Alagha, S. E. Eusébio, M. T. Torrado, S. O. Ouakinin, Feature Extraction for Psychophysiological Load Assessment in Unconstrained Scenarios, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. 4784 - 4788, August, 2012,
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  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, A. Lourenço, Electrodermal Response Propagation Time as a Potential Psychophysiological Marker, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. 6756 - 6760, August, 2012,
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  • F. Pires, A. Gil Pascoal, H. Silva, The Use of a Periniometer on the Pelvic Floor Muscle Force Assessment, European Society of Biomechanics Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, July, 2012,
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  • H. C. Chandra, I. O. Oakley, H. Silva, User Needs in the Performance of Prescribed Home Exercise Therapy, ACM Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI, Austin, United States, Vol., pp. 2369 - 2374, May, 2012,
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  • H. Silva, P. van de Ven, E. Tousset, M. R. Henriques, M. Hoogendoorn, M. Klein, User-friendly ICT Tools to Enhance Self-Management and Effective Treatment of Depression in the EU, International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT - Med-e-Tel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Vol., pp. 123 - 123, April, 2012 | BibTex
  • J. Sousa, H. Silva, Smart Wearable Sensors for Biomedical Data Monitoring in the Treatment of Depression, International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT - Med-e-Tel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Vol., pp. 122 - 122, April, 2012 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, S. E. Eusébio, S. O. Ouakinin, M. T. Torrado, Statistical Study on Psychophysiological Changes During the Response to Clinical History Questionnaires, Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados - JOCLAD, Tomar, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, March, 2012 | BibTex
  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, R. L. Lourenço, P. L. Leite, A. L. N. Fred, Realtime Electrocardiogram Segmentation For Finger Based ECG Biometrics, International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals - INSTICC, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, February, 2012,
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  • R. L. Lourenço, P. L. Leite, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, DPC Antão, A. L. N. Fred, Experimental Apparatus for Finger ECG Biometrics, INSTICC International Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Biodevices, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 196 - 200, February, 2012,
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  • H. Silva, J. Sousa, H. Gamboa, Study and Evaluation of Palmar and Finger Blood Volume Pulse for Heart Rate Monitoring, International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 35 - 40, February, 2012,
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  • F. A. L. Canento, H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Applicability of Multi-Modal Electrophysiological Data Acquisition and Processing to Emotion Recognition, International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 59 - 70, February, 2012,
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  • A. R. Londral, N. Nunes, H. Silva, Wireless User-Computer Interface Platform for Mental Health Improvement through Social Inclusion, International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 114 - 118, February, 2012 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, In-Vehicle Driver Recognition Based on Hands ECG Signals, ACM SIGART SIGCHI International Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 25 - 28, February, 2012,
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  • M. Lucas da Silva, H. Silva, C. Simões, F. Botelho, Bridging the communicative barriers of children with autism spectrum disorders, Int’l Conf. on Digital Exclusion in the Information and Knowledge Society SEMIME, Cruz Quebrada, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, January, 2012 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, JBF Filipe, Clinical Data Privacy and Customization via Biometrics Based on ECG Signals, Information Quality in eHealth - USAB, Graz, Austria, Vol., pp. 121 - 132, November, 2011,
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  • F. A. L. Canento, A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, A. Lourenço, Multimodal Biosignal Sensor Data Handling for Emotion Recognition, IEEE Sensors, Limerick, Ireland, Vol., pp. 647 - 651, October, 2011,
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  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, R. L. Lourenço, P. L. Leite, DPC Antão, A. L. N. Fred, Study and Evaluation of a Single Differential Sensor Design Based on Electro-textile Electrodes for ECG Biometrics Applications, IEEE Sensors, Limerick, Ireland, Vol., pp. 1764 - 1767, October, 2011,
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  • A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, Palm based ECG biometrics, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2011 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, A. Lourenço, Check Your Biosignals Here: Experiments on Affective Computing and Behavioral Biometrics, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2011,
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  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, D. Gonçalves, T. Gonçalves, H. Silva, F. Botelho, TROCAS: Communication Skills Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders via ICT, IFIP TC13 Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 6949/2011, pp. 644 - 647, September, 2011,
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  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, D. Gonçalves, T. Guerreiro, H. Silva, F. Botelho, TROCAS: Communication skills development in children with autism spectrum disorders via ICT, IFIP TC13 Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. 644 - 647, September, 2011 | BibTex
  • R. Tomás, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, V. Lee, S. Going, Effects of Whole-Body Vibration on Vastus Lateralis Activation During Isometric and Dynamic Squatting, World Congress of International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - ISPRM, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vol., pp. -, June, 2011 | BibTex
  • B. Pavic, P. Daponte, L. de Vito, H. Silva, A Case Study on Muscle Activation Analysis in Post-stroke Rehabilitation Patients, IEEE International Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA, Bari, Italy, Vol., pp. 360 - 365, May, 2011,
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  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, R. Tomás, V. Lee, S. Going, Accelerometry-based Study of Body Vibration Dampening During Whole-Body Vibration Training, IEEE International Symp. on Medical Measurements and Applications - MeMeA, Bari, Italy, Vol., pp. 98 - 102, May, 2011,
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  • R. Tomás, A. Lourenço, H. Silva, Efeitos da Vibração Corporal na Activação do Vastus Lateralis Durante o Agachamento Isométrico e Dinâmico, Portuguese Physical Rehabilitation Society Congress - SPMFR, Albufeira, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, March, 2011 | BibTex
  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, H. Silva, F. Botelho, Rapid Application Development Using Web Technologies: An Application to Communicative Competence Promotion of Children with ASD, INSTICC International Conf. on Health Informatics - Healthinf, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 582 - 586, January, 2011,
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  • A. Lourenço, H. Silva, D. P. Santos, A. L. N. Fred, Towards a Finger Based ECG Biometric System, INSTICC International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. -, January, 2011 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, N. Paz, Real-Time Biosignal Acquisition and Telemedicine Platform for AAL Based on Android OS, INSTICC International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications - AAL, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 111 - 121, January, 2011,
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  • J. Sousa, S. P. Palma, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, aal@home: a New Home Care Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Tool for Ambient Assisted Living, INSTICC International Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications - AAL, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 98 - 107, January, 2011,
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  • H. Gamboa, Silva, H. Silva, Patient Tracking System, ICST International Conf. on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Munich, Germany, Vol., pp. 1 - 2, March, 2010,
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  • H. Silva, G. Martins, S. P. Palma, P. Mil-Homens, M. Valamatos, An Automated Athlete Performance Evaluation System. From theory to practice, INSTICC International Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Biodevices, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. 239 - 244, January, 2009,
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  • H. Silva, G. Martins, P. Mil-Homens, M. Valamatos, Athletic Performance Evaluation System, European College of Sports Science - ECSS, Estoril, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2008 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, Silva, H. Gamboa, Automatic Fall Detection and Alert System: A Compact GPS/GSM Enabled Unit Based on Accelerometry, INSTICC International Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Biodevices, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 186 - 189, January, 2008,
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  • H. Teixeira, H. Silva, P. Mil-Homens, Vertical Jump Flight Time Measurement: A New Method Based on Acceleration Signals, Congress of European College of Sport Science - ECSS, Jyväskylä, Finland, Vol., pp. 200 - 200, July, 2007 | Full text (PDF 40 KBs) | BibTex
  • H. Silva, H. Gamboa, A. L. N. Fred, One Lead ECG Based Human Identification with Feature Subspace Ensembles, International Conf. on Machine Learning and Data Mining - MLDM, Leipzig, Germany, Vol., pp. 770 - 783, July, 2007 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Feature Subspace Ensembles: A Parallel Classifier Combination Scheme using Feature Selection, International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems MCS, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol., pp. 261 - 270, May, 2007 | BibTex
  • H. Silva, H. Gamboa, A. L. N. Fred, Applicability of Lead V2 ECG Measurements in Biometrics, International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT - Med-e-Tel, , Luxembourg, Vol., pp. 177 - 180, April, 2007,
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  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Pairwise vs Global Multi-Class Wrapper Feature Selection, WSEAS International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases, Corfu, Greece, Vol. 6, pp. 1 - 6, February, 2007 | Full text (PDF 113 KBs) | BibTex
  • H. Silva, H. Gamboa, V.V. Viegas, A. L. N. Fred, Wireless Physiologic Data Acquisition Platform, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, April, 2005 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • H. Silva, H. Gamboa, V.V. Viegas, António Veloso Veloso, Sistema sem fios para aquisição de dados fisiológicos, Congresso Nacional de Biomecânica, Abrantes, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, February, 2005 | BibTex
8Patents

Closed Projects6

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
Affective Mouse Affective Mouse QREN 01-10-2008 01-09-2012
HCI Reconhecimento de Padrões Cognitivos e Afectivos na Interacção Pessoa-Computador INSTICC 09-03-2004 09-12-2007
HeartBIT Novel pervasive technologies for the prevention and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases IT/LA 01-01-2014 01-12-2015
LearnBIG Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning from Big Data FCT/PTDC 01-05-2016 01-06-2018
SmartHeart Smarter Cardiac Sensing via Integrated Signal Processing IT 01-01-2017 01-03-2018
VITALIDI Android Biometrics Demonstrator IT/LA 01-11-2011 01-12-2013
17Awards
  • H. Silva, Career Award alumniIPS, Every year, the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal distinguishes a graduate that, for personal or professional merit, has gathered achievements that constitute a reference for the students and the community., 01-10-2018
  • H. Silva, 1st place at the European Commission Innovation Radar Prize in the "Industrial and Enabling Tech" Category, BITalino was distinguished by the European Commission's DG-CONNECT as the best european development in the "Industrial and Enabling Tech" category at the Innovation Radar Awards 2017, 01-11-2017
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Featured Researcher at the Sparks “Beyond the Lab: The DIY Science Revolution” Exhibition, To complement the stories of common citizens contributing to scientific research and the artworks presented in ‘Beyond the Lab: The DIY science revolution’, each venue hosting the exhibition presents a local example of how RRI is or can be applied in research in the field of medicine and healthcare. Sparks partners have worked within local partnerships with researchers, universities, NGOs and citizens to identify the object or the research that would be featured in the local corner of the exhibition. Our work with BITalino was the selected showcase in Portugal., 01-01-2017
  • H. Silva, RP-edisoft Pereira, P. Pires, 2nd place at PixelsCamp (former CodeBits), These awards recognised the best projects developed during the 3 days hackathon Pixels Camp (former Codebits), which is one of the biggest national tech-events. The devised project, dubbed Wolverino, is a multimodal plug & play controller for artificial limbs, human augmentation and/or animatronics pieces, which can use muscle signals or remote control over a mobile app to trigger specific actions on the pieces. Wolverino´s target audience are people with prosthetic limbs, cosplayers and bio-hackers. The award has been assigned to a working demo application inspired by the claws of the world famous Marvel Comics character Wolverine., 01-10-2016
  • H. Silva, 1st place at Prémio Inovação Jovem Engenheiro 2014, Ordem dos Engenheiros, 01-05-2015
  • H. Silva, Most Innovative Product/Technology (1st place), MIT Portugal - E3 Forum, 01-05-2014
  • H. Silva, A. P. Alves Alves, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, I. Montalvão, L. Alegre, Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013, Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013, with the work 'Towards the Detection of Deception in Interactive Multimedia Environments', 01-07-2013
  • A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, 1st Prize of contest INOVPORTUGAL, 1st Prize on the portuguese contest of innovation and entrepreneurship, INOVPORTUGAL, with the project VITALIDI, 01-05-2013
  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, H. Silva, Prémio Engenheiro Jaime Filipe, This award, promoted by the Portuguese Social Security Institute, distinguishes yearly the most innovative and autonomy enabling solution within the domain of rehabilitation engineering, and at a National level it currently stands as the highest recognition in this field., 01-12-2011
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, JBF Filipe, Best Paper Award at USAB 2011, Best Paper Award at the USAB 2011 conference, with the work ''Clinical Data Privacy and Customization via Biometrics Based on ECG Signals'', 01-11-2011
  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, H. Silva, F. Botelho, Exame Informática Software Award (Honorable Mention), ''The Best of Technological Portugal'' by Exame Informática is a conference aimed at the distinction of individuals and companies that stand out in Portugal, and in the world, in the field of new technologies., 01-11-2010
  • H. Gamboa, H. Silva, Silva, ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Life Sciences Award, The ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Competition — launched by ISCTE-IUL in partnership with MIT School of Engineering, the Deshpande Center, and the MIT Sloan School of Management — aims to foster the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in Portugal., 01-09-2010
  • H. Gamboa, Silva, H. Silva, Biggest Innovation Award, Hit Barcelona is a unique global event with a format that integrates spaces dedicated to knowledge, revolutionary ideas and great business opportunities., 01-06-2010
  • H. Gamboa, Silva, H. Silva, Portugal Startup Award, Ignite Portugal is a set of events open to the participation of all that spin around the topics of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and technology., 01-05-2010
  • H. Silva, Prémio Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Award for recognized academic merit during the pursuit and completion of the Sc. B. degree., 01-09-2005
  • H. Silva, Bolsa de Estudo por Mérito, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Scholarship for academic merit, 01-09-2004
  • H. Silva, Bolsa de Estudo por Mérito, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Scholarship for academic merit, 01-09-2003
52Short Courses and Seminars
  • H. Silva, Making noise with biosignals, Estonia, Tallinn, 11-2018
  • H. Silva, Fundamentals of Biomedical Signal Acquisition and Processing, Italy, Benevento, 08-2018
  • H. Silva, Physiological computing with BITalino, Portugal, 11-2017
  • H. Silva, Technological entrepreneurship, Portugal, 06-2017
  • H. Silva, Biosignals in interaction design, Portugal, 05-2017
  • H. Silva, Biosignals in interaction design, Italy, 04-2017
  • H. Silva, Signal processing for biomechanics research using Python, Portugal, 04-2017
  • H. Silva, Modernizing biofeedback rehabilitation, Uzbekistan, 11-2016
  • H. Silva, Biosignals in interaction design, Italy, 05-2016
  • H. Silva, Rapid prototyping of biomedical applications, Portugal, 05-2016
  • H. Silva, Signal acquisition and instrumentation in bioengineering, Portugal, 02-2016
  • H. Silva, Pervasive electrocardiography (ECG), Portugal, Lisboa, 11-2015
  • H. Silva, A few personal projects as a biohacker, Portugal, Lisboa, 10-2015
  • H. Silva, Workshop on physiological computing, Spain, Barcelona, 06-2015
  • H. Silva, Rapid prototyping of biomedical applications, Portugal, Lisbon, 05-2015
  • H. Silva, BITalino: DiY body signals, Portugal, Barcelinhos, 03-2015
  • H. Silva, BITalino: DiY body signals, Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, 10-2014
  • H. Silva, Tech strategy: The BITalino case study, Portugal, Lisboa, 09-2014
  • H. Silva, Getting started with BITalino, Portugal, Oeiras, 06-2014
  • H. Silva, BITalino: DiY body signals, United States, New York, 11-2013
  • H. Silva, What if the city could sense your body?, Portugal, Porto, 11-2013
  • H. Silva, Physiological computing, India, Vellore, 10-2013
  • H. Silva, Biomedical technologies and the future of sports sciences research, Portugal, Vilamoura, 09-2013
  • H. Silva, BITalino: Do More!, Portugal, things.pt Portuguese Makers Hangout #4, 08-2013
  • H. Silva, Vitalidi: Your Heart (h)as a Key!, Portugal, Setúbal, 07-2013
  • H. Silva, Physiological Computing: To Infinity and Beyond, Portugal, Lisbon, 05-2013
  • H. Silva, Medical Devices + Computer Interaction: To Infinity and Beyond, Spain, San Sebastian, 02-2013
  • H. Silva, Physiological Computer Interaction, Spain, San Sebastian, 02-2013
  • H. Silva, Biosignals: Motivating Scenarios and Applications, United States, Gainesville, Florida, 10-2012
  • H. Silva, Biosignals: Motivating Scenarios and Applications, Austria, Graz, 07-2012
  • F. Carnide, H. Silva, ERGOplux: Biosignals Applied to Occupational Health, Portugal, Barreiro, 07-2012
  • H. Silva, Entrepreneurship in Health: From Theory to Practise, Portugal, Castelo Branco, 05-2012
  • H. Silva, PLUX: An Entrepreneurial Story, Portugal, Lisbon, 03-2012
  • H. Silva, Biomedical Engineering: A Machine Learning Approach, Portugal, Setúbal, 01-2012
  • M. Lucas da Silva, H. Silva, C. Simões, F. Botelho, Bridging the Communicative Barriers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Portugal, Cruz Quebrada, 01-2012
  • H. Silva, Modern Biofeedback Techniques for Pelvic Floor Assessment and Training, Portugal, Alcoitão, 01-2012
  • H. Silva, Clinical Biofeedback: Case Studies and New Trends, Portugal, Lisbon, 12-2011
  • H. Silva, The Potential of Biosignals in the Design of Novel Interfaces, Portugal, Lisbon, 12-2011
  • H. Silva, Smart objects beyond the hype: A reality check, Portugal, Aveiro, 09-2011
  • H. Silva, Smart Objects Beyond the Hype: A Reality Check (Panelist), Portugal, Aveiro, 09-2011
  • H. Silva, Wireless Sensing in a Connected World, Portugal, Braga, 05-2011
  • H. Silva, Biofeedback: Closing the Loop with the Patient, Portugal, Lisbon, 11-2010
  • H. Silva, Biomedical Engineering: From Ideas to Products, Portugal, Setúbal, 11-2010
  • H. Silva, C.SPORTUP.2010 - Ideias para o Futuro, Portugal, Rio Maior, 05-2010
  • H. Silva, Internet do Futuro: Desafios e Oportunidades, Portugal, Aveiro, 05-2010
  • H. Silva, PDA- Toda a informação numa mão, Portugal, Lisbon, 04-2010
  • H. Silva, Wireless Biosignals: From Research to Market, Portugal, Braga, 04-2010
  • H. Silva, Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition Systems, Portugal, Setúbal, 01-2010
  • H. Silva, Seminar on Medical Devices, Portugal, Setúbal, 01-2009
  • H. Silva, Seminar on Medical Devices, Portugal, Lisbon, 01-2009
  • H. Silva, Seminar on Medical Devices, Portugal, Vila do Conde, 01-2009
  • H. Silva, Seminar on Medical Devices, Portugal, Setúbal, 01-2008
6Prototypes
  • M.D. Reis, H. Silva, RepoBIT: Cloud-Driven Real-Time Biosignal Streaming, Storage, Visualisation
  • M.D. Reis, H. Silva, LoggerBIT: Optimization of the OpenLog Board as a Data Logger for BITalino
  • M. Lucas da Silva, H. Silva, C. Simões, F. Botelho, myTROC@S: Multimedia Platform for Development of the Communicative Competence in Autistic Children
  • H. Silva, The Organized CxO
  • H. Gamboa, Silva, H. Silva, bioPLUX Wireless Biosignal Acquisition System
  • H. Silva, H. Gamboa, Silva, V.V. Viegas, Wireless Physiologic Data Acquisition Platform
10Conference Committees
  • INSTICC International Conf. on Neurotechnology and Physiological Computing Systems NeuroPhyCS, Conference Chairman, 2019
  • IEEE EMBS Portugal Chapter IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering ENBENG, Organizing Committee, 2019
  • INSTICC International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications CHIRA, Conference co-chair, 2018
  • International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, 2018
  • INSTICC International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications CHIRA, Conference co-chair, 2017
  • International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, 2017
  • International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, 2016
  • International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, 2015
  • International Workshop on Computing Paradigms for Mental Health - MindCare, Organizing Committee, 2014
  • International Conf. on Physiological Computing Systems - PhyCS, Conference Chairman, 2014
3Editorial Committees
  • Editorial Board, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, 27-07-2016 - 31-03-2017
  • Special Issue Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 01-01-2014 - 31-12-2015
  • Special Issue Guest Editor, Interacting with Computers, 01-01-2014 - 31-12-2015
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