Summary
Hugo Cristo is a multidisciplinary designer, researcher and professor who blends design, psychology and computation to model cognition and interaction through mathematical and computational methods. With a career in digital projects since 1998 and over a decade as a faculty member at Ufes, he has founded and led multiple research labs (For/ma, LEDHUM, and others) and developed research platforms such as openEvoc and the Fred personalized teaching system. His work spans applied teaching, doctoral supervision, and the creation of programming tools like RocketSocket, reflecting a rare combination of hands-on system development and theoretical rigor. Hugo’s background in industrial design and a PhD in psychology enable him to bridge aesthetic, empirical and formal approaches to design research, often producing tooling that directly supports his empirical studies.
10 years of coding experience
Estágio de Pós-Doutorado Psicologia, Estágio de Pós-Doutorado Psicologia at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Oficial)
French, Spanish, English