Rui Lopes

Codebits 2010 status
Accepted for the event.
Bio
* Researcher on Web interaction (Web Accessibility, User Experience, Hypertext, Design Patterns, Social Interaction) at the HCIM LaSIGE Research Lab, University of Lisbon;
* Local technical manager of the EU FP7 ACCESSIBLE project (http://www.accessible-project.eu);
* Technical manager of the FCT QualWeb project (http://hcim.di.fc.ul.pt/wiki/QualWeb)
* PhD Candidate with the topic of Web Accessibility Characterisation at Large Scale (http://hcim.di.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Web_Interaction_Environments);
* Invited expert on W3C on the XML Processing Working Group;
* Co-founder of boomUX - User Experience Design (http://boomux.com);
* Creator of the mashmush online music player (http://mashmush.com), winner of the Google Buzz Hackathon Lisbon 2010;
* Creator of the whit.me multi-URL shortening service (http://whit.me);
* Creator of the Tea Leaves iPhone application (http://tealeavesapp.com);
* Co-creator of Crowdbeat (http://crowdbeat.me);
* Participation on the CoHiTEC 2007 and Vector-E 2006 enterpreneurship programmes;
* Technicalities: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flex/ActionScript 3, Java, Groovy, PHP, Python, Django, Google AppEngine, nginx, iPhone dev (HTML and ObjC), ...
* Interactive hacks geek (Processing, Arduino, HTML Canvas);
* Mountain Biking, Hiking, and Tennis lover;
* Guitar, Piano, and Drums player.
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Karma points
273
Blog
http://www.rlopes.net
Twitter
Skills
APIs
: Cocoa/objC
: CSS
: Javascript
: Microformats
: Mobile
: Python
: Web