NOVA LINC’s PhD student receives the Professor José Luís Encarnação Award

Ana Rita Rebelo, NOVA LINC’s PhD student, receives the Professor José Luís Encarnação 2025 the largest Portuguese award in Computer Graphics. The annual “Professor José Luís Encarnação” prize aims to encourage higher education students to carry out research activities of excellence in the area of Computer Graphics and Applications. This award is therefore addressed to students of Portuguese nationality of any cycle of Higher Education who demonstrate that they have published (and presented, in the case of a conference) a full paper in a forum of excellence. The prize was awarded in the ICGI 2025 conference to the following publication:

R. Rebelo, P. A. Ferreira and R. Nóbrega,“Techniques for Multiple Room Connection in Virtual Reality: Walking Within Small Physical Spaces,”IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 2310-2319, May 2025, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3549895.