Auteur: Marcelo Soares

Francisco Rebelo is an ergonomist researcher whose work has focused on the interaction of design with emerging technologies. He is the Head of the Ergo VR research and is mainly involved in the modeling of Virtual Environments to study and optimize human interaction in ergonomic design. Marcelo Soares has taught on a broad range of subjects in the Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) domain, including Industrial and Product Ergonomics, and has held positions as a teacher and researcher in Mexico, Portugal, the UK, and the US. He pioneered the implementation of an HFE distance learning course in Brazil and postgraduate programs in HFE for the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. His scientific publications have mainly focused on the topics Usability, Product Design, Manufacturing, Information, and Cognitive Ergonomics.