My Name is Kenia Sousa. I have a PhD in in Economics and Management Sciences from Louvain School of Management at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). I am a researcher in the Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI) at UCL.
I have finished my Diplôme D’études Approfondies (DEA) in UCL in September 2008 with great distinction. I have graduated in Computer Science from the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) in 2003 and received my Masters degree at the Master in Applied Computer Science in 2005 at UNIFOR, in Brazil.
Since 2002, I have been working with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), more specifically on the integration of HCI with Software Engineering and Business Process Management.
In the private marketplace, I have provided consulting services for software organizations on the definition and application of software development processes from 2004 until 2006. I have worked for software organizations on the pharmaceutical, financial, and health insurance businesses.
In the academic environment, I have worked on research projects related to HCI and Distance Learning at UNIFOR. I was project manager and usability engineer on a research project for the definition of the Brazilian Digital Television System, financed by the Brazilian Government. During 2005, I was the Vice-Chair of the ACM BR-CHI Organizing Comittee.
During the PhD, I participated in projects in the banking and telecommunications industry working with business process conception, deployment, monitoring and improving. These projects focused on maintaining the consistency between business processes and the user interfaces of heterogeneous enterprise systems.
