He has a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Minho. He is a guest lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University and other higher education institutions.

His main interests are in the areas of serious games, physical computing, computer vision, artificial intelligence and media arts. He is the author and editor of several international publications, including books, book chapters and conference proceedings.

He has published in several international scientific journals and conference proceedings indexed by ISI - Institute for Scientific Information, SCOPUS, among other references, and several of these publications have already been cited by the scientific community.