This talk is about my own experience working with partners abroad. We will begin our journey in the corridors of Federal University of Paraiba, where someone asked to me if I could receive foreign students in my research lab. So, later in 2011, two students and Professor Damian Schofield showed to us a little bit more about SUNY-Oswego. In the other hand, I invited Professor Damian to attend some live surgeries in the Academic Hospital Lauro Wanderley and this was just the beginning. The research possibilities increased and also our enthusiasm. The first results, more students from Oswego arriving in Brazil. The next steps brought me to Oswego, where I am living right now. In the end of 2012, the brazilian program: "Science without Borders" made possible to spend a year working in Oswego. More enthusiasm, more results, more students, more partners abroad, more people working without borders.

1. Experiences working without borders:
From the Global Laboratory in Brazil to
the Brazilian Science without borders
Program in Oswego
Tatiana Aires Tavares, PhD.
Professor, Federal University of Paraiba, Paraiba, Brazil
Visiting Scholar, State University of New York, USA
tatiana@lavid.ufpb.br
http://tatiana.lavid.ufpb.br/

2. Life is all about meeting people…
Life is all about meeting people
Tati

3. Once upon a time…
Oswego…
what?
So, here I
am…
Cool
stuff…
Keep
walking

4. Oswego…
what?
Cleane Medeiros
Brazil, 2010…

5. Paraíba, what??
UFPB, Brazil SUNY, USA
João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Capital of Paraíba State…
Northeast of Brazil…
Almost a million people…
Warm weather...
Great outdoor views...

6. João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

7. Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)
Founded in 1955*…
29.629* students…
1.340* graduate programs…
* http://www.ufpb.br/content/hist%C3%B3rico
Welcome to UFPB

8. Oswego…
what?
Damian Schofield
Brazil, 2011…

9. 2011…
UFPB, Brazil SUNY, USA
• Global Lab Activities :
• LAVID/UFPB received Daniel Cutler (˜8 weeks)
• PPGI/UFPB received Dr. Damian Schofield

10. July, 12th – 2011...

11. Surgery live
transmission
Doctor is manipulating
3D models using Kinect
Videowall showing the video
streams (a), an exam (b) and
the 3D model (c)
(a)
(a)(c)
(b)
Arthron for Telemedicine

12. Oswego…
what?
Shashi Kanbur
Oswego, 2012…

13. 2012…
UFPB, Brazil SUNY, USA
• Global Lab Activities :
• LAVID/UFPB received Bryan Kern and Noor (6-8 weeks)
• SUNY Oswego received Dr. Tatiana Tavares (Capes)

14. Results (with Global Lab students)
• CUTLER, D ; PALMEIRA, A. ; TAVARES, T. A. ; CARVALHO, P. ; SCHOFIELD,
D. . User Interface Evaluation and Design for Deaf-Blind Users. In:
SUNY-Oswego Symposium on Teaching and Learning, 2011, Oswego.
SUNY-Oswego Symposium on Teaching and Learning Proceedings,
2011. v. 1.
• KERN, B ; SCHOFIELD, D. ; TAVARES, T. A. . User interface evaluation
experiences: A brief comparison between usability and
communicability testing. In: 4th Interaction South America - ISA 2012,
2012, Sao Paulo. Anais do Interaction South America'12, 2012.
• KERN, B ; SCHOFIELD, D. ; TAVARES, T. A. . User interface evaluation
experiences. In: SUNY-Oswego Symposium on Teaching and Learning,
2013, Oswego. SUNY-Oswego Symposium on Teaching and Learning
Proceedings, 2013. v. 1.
• Sigma Xi/ORSP Research Award - Quest 2013, SUNY Oswego

15. Results
(the ones that really matter)

16. 2013…
UFPB, Brazil SUNY, USA
• Brazilian Science Without Borders Program (PDE)
• Visiting scholar in the State University of New York (Oswego) :
• HCI (Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program)
• IPAC (Interdisciplinary Programs and Activities Center)

17. UFPB, Brazil SUNY, USA
So, here I
am…

18. So, here I
am…

19. Fall 2013
Spring 2013
So, here I
am…

20. So, here I
am…
Craig Graci
Oswego, 2013…

21. So, here I
am…
Lori Reitmeier
Oswego, 2013…

22. So, here I
am…
IPAC Family

23. Cool Stuff
Multisensory Interaction Design
(proposal when I was in Brazil)

24. Cool Stuff…

25. +
HUMAN SENSES
Cool Stuff…

26. +
HUMAN SENSES
Cool Stuff…

27. +
HUMAN SENSES
Cool Stuff..

28. +
HUMAN SENSES
Cool stuff…

29. +
HUMAN SENSES
Cool Stuff…

30. Proposal: Multisensory
Design Interaction

31. Where can I apply that?
Cool Stuff…

32. [Chromesthetic Painting Interactions
(SUNY-IPAC)]
Cool Stuff…

33. [Web/Multimedia]
[Web/Multimedia with NUI]
[Mobile with TUI]
[VE with NUI]

34. [Robots short movies (SUNY-HCI/RMIT)]
Cool Stuff…

35. [Acting with robots]
[Programming for Actors (Robots)]
[Conception including
robots]
[The audience key - movies with Humans and Robots]

36. Cool Stuff…
• KERN, B ; SCHOFIELD, D. ; TAVARES, T. A. . User interface evaluation experiences. In: SUNY-
Oswego Symposium on Teaching and Learning, 2013, Oswego. SUNY-Oswego Symposium on
Teaching and Learning Proceedings, 2013. v. 1.
• Sigma Xi/ORSP Research Award - Quest 2013, SUNY Oswego
• Chromesthetic Painting Interactions: working with SYNESTHESIA and interactivity. 2013. Cidade:
MIT Media Lab/Boston – USA; Evento: Primeiro Simpósio da Comunidade Científica Brasileira na
Nova Inglaterra.
• Experiences working without borders: From the Global Laboratory in Brazil to the Brazilian
Science without borders Program in Oswego. 2013. Cidade: Oswego – USA; Evento:Global
Laboratory Consortium Meeting and Symposium.
• TAVARES, T. A. ; SCHOFIELD, D. . Interaction Design for Convergence Medias and Devices: a
Multisensory Challenge. In: Artur Lugmayr, Cinzia Dal Zotto, and Gregory Ferrell Lowe. (Org.).
Convergent Divergence? – Cross-Disciplinary Viewpoint on Media Convergence. 1ed.: Springer-
Verlag Handbook, 2013, v. , p.
• TAVARES, T. A. MULTISENSORY INTERACTION DESIGN: DESIGNING USER INTERFACES FOR
HUMAN SENSES. In: ICWI – IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET, 2013, Fort Worth,
Texas. Proceedings of IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET, 2013.

37. Cool Stuff…
• 1 ongoing grant proposal (CSF)
• 2 ongoing research projects
• 5 ongoing mentoring positions (students)
• 1 award
• 1 book chapter (Springer-Verlag Handbook)
• 3 accepted and published full papers (2 IEEE, 1
Springer)
• 2 accepted short papers (reflection)
• 2 posters (1 MIT Media Lab)
• 7 talks
• 03 short movies production

38. Cool Stuff…
• 04 coutries (USA, South Africa, Australia, Canada)
• San Diego, Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelfia, Dallas and NYC…
• research partners around the world (USA, Australia, Canada and
South Africa)
• Aprenticeship program - 04 students
• 03 short movies (they are really cool!!!)
• 200 miles walking in SUNY Oswego
• 30 pounds less (so proud of that)
• More than 200 new FB friends (proud of that too!!!)
• Almost 500 GB of photos (Oswego is such a nice place!!!)
• Millions and millions of smiles and a LOT of awesome PEOPLE 

39. Keep
Walking…
Thank you
a TON!!!!!!