Heloisa Candello is a researcher and interaction designer of the Social Data Analytics group at IBM Research Brazil. She has experience conducting research to understand the motivations and contexts of people who use conversational interfaces.

Claudio Pinhanez is a scientist, inventor, professor and media artist. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the United States, and has been working at the IBM Research laboratories in New York and Brazil in the research and exploration of conversational systems, new interfaces for computers and artificial intelligence. His works have been displayed at MIT’s List Visual Center and at the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo.

Paulo Costa is an art media producer and creator. He develops academic research on interfaces between the audiovisual media and mixed realities.

About IBM Research and IBM Brasil

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