Vieira, J., Silva, C., & Crammer, M. (2026, Accepted). Supervision Theatre: Human-on-the-Loop as the Spear Carrier in the Agentic Play In Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIGs).
Scientific papers
Research
My research background spans Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors & Ergonomics, and multimodal perception. The work below reflects collaborations in automotive safety, medical device usability, spatial audio, and cognitive modeling — areas that continue to inform my product design practice.
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Peer-reviewed papers
Pereira, F., Soares, F., Silva, C., Sousa, E., & Freitas, E. (2021). CPX based synthesis for binaural auralization of vehicle rolling noise to an arbitrary positioned stand-by receiver Applied Acoustics, 182, 108211.
Soares, F., Silva, E., Pereira, F., Silva, C., Sousa, E., & Freitas, E. (2021). To cross or not to cross: Impact of visual and auditory cues on pedestrians’ crossing decision-making Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 82, 202–220.
Silva, C., Vieira, J., Couto, C., Campos, J., & Ribeiro, A. (2020). Development and validation of a Descriptive Cognitive Model for a Low Code Development Platform Human Factors. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720820920429
Mackay, A., Fortes, I., Santos, C., Machado, D., Barbosa, P., Vilas-Boas, V., Ferreira, J. P., Costa, N., Silva, C., & Sousa, E. (2019). The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles’ Active Feedback on Trust In Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors — Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 342–352). Springer International Publishing.
Silva, C., Masci, P., Zhang, Y., Jones, P., & Campos, C. (2018). A Use Error Taxonomy for Improving Human-Machine Interface Design in Medical Devices ACM SIGBED Review, 16(2).
Pazhoohi, F., Silva, C., Lamas, J., Mouta, S., Santos, J., & Arantes, J. (2018). The effect of height and shoulder-to-hip ratio on interpersonal space in virtual environment Psychological Research, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0968-1
Noy, D., Mouta, S., Lamas, J., Basso, D., Silva, C., & Santos, J. A. (2017). Audiovisual integration increases the intentional step synchronization of side-by-side walkers Human Movement Science, 56(Pt B), 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2017.10.007
Soares, F., Freitas, E., Cunha, C., Silva, C., Lamas, J., Mouta, S., & Santos, J. A. (2017). Traffic noise: Annoyance assessment of real and virtual sounds based on close proximity measurements Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 52, 399–407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2017.03.019
Silva, C., Mouta, S., & Santos, J. (2016). Choosing audio devices on the basis of listeners’ spatial perception: A case study of Headphones vs in-Earphones In 2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Berlin (ICCE-Berlin) (pp. 129–132). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684737
Silva, C. C., Mendonça, C., Mouta, S., Silva, R. M., Campos, J. C., & Santos, J. (2013). Depth Cues and Perceived Audiovisual Synchrony of Biological Motion PLoS ONE, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080096
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Thesis
Silva, C. (2019). Using Predictive and Descriptive Cognitive Models for Evaluation of Interactive Computing Systems [Doctoral dissertation, University of Minho].
Silva, C. (2011). Perceiving audiovisual synchrony as a function of stimulus distance [Master's thesis, University of Minho].