Hugo Paredes received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minho (2000 and 2008), and the Habilitation title from the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro - UTAD (2016). He was software engineer at SiBS, S.A., and software consultant at Novabase Outsoursing, S.A. Since 2003, he has been at UTAD, where he is a Full Professor. In 2017 he co-founded Robocode Generation, Lda, a start-up company and UTAD spin off, where he was Scientific Consultant until 2021. During 2017 he was a visiting faculty at Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Pro-Rector for Digital Transition and Administrative Transformation at UTAD from May 2021 to September 2023. He is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology, and Science (INESC TEC), where he was Assistant Coordinator of the Centre for Computer Graphics and Information Systems (HumanISE, formerly CSIG) from 2020-2021. His main research interests are in the domain of human–computer interaction, specifically the topic of human–AI interaction as applied to climate change, accessibility, health, and active and healthy ageing. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 refereed journal, book chapters, and conference papers. He is one of the inventors of a granted patent and a patent pending request. He participated and lead several projects, including national and international projects, with public and private funding.