
David Jose Ribeiro Lamas
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
School of Digital Technologies
A-423
+372 640 9433
david.lamas@tlu.ee
https://calendly.com/davidlamas/individualmeeting
Introduction
David has vast international and multicultural experience. He worked in the USA, the UK, Portugal, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and recently, Afghanistan and Estonia.
At Tallinn University David bootstrapped the academic direction of Human-Computer Interaction, the masters in Human-Computer Interaction and in Interaction Design, run online jointly with Cyprus University of Technology.
David also has a solid project participation record, taking part, leading and supporting his team in various research, development, educational and training projects. He supervises mostly doctoral students.
David is the chair of the Estonian chapter of ACM's SIGCHI () and an expert member of IFIP's TC13 (). He contributes to the worldwide HCI community serving as chair of events such as INTERACT 2019, NordiCHI 2020, AfriCHI 2021, ICIDS 2021 & 2022 and soon ECCE 2025. He is a keen organiser of doctoral consortia and other events onboarding young researchers into to field.
Main tasks
Curator of the Information Society Technologies doctoral programme
Head of the academic direction of Human-Computer Interaction
Areas of research
Human-Computer Interaction
Design Theory & Methodology