Personal identification

Full name

NERVO XAVIER VERDEZOTO DIAS

Citation names

• VERDEZOTO, NERVO
• VERDEZOTO, NERVO XAVIER

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

3413-EABF-F8FE

ORCID iD

0000-0001-5006-4262

Google Scholar ID

0jUyuFAAAAAJ

Addresses

• Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

• https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/1724100-verdezoto-dias-nervo (Professional)
• https://nervoxavier.wordpress.com/ (Personal)
• 0jUyuFAAAAAJ (Scholar)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

	Degree	Classification
2016/09/01 - 2018/07/17 Concluded	Academic Practice (Postgraduate Certificate) University of Leicester, United Kingdom
2010/11/01 - 2014/02/24 Concluded	Computer Science (Doktor (PhD)) Major in Human-Computer Interaction/ Pervasive Healthcare Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2009/11/01 - 2010/10/04 Concluded	Human Language Technology and Interfaces. (Master) Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2001/05/01 - 2009/06/17 Concluded	Computer Engineering (Bachelor) Major in Technological Systems Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador	best student

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/08/15 - 2016/01/31	Postdoc (Research)	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
	Aarhus Universitet Institut for Datalogi, Denmark
2013/11/01 - 2014/03/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2010/11/01 - 2013/10/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
	Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2010/06/01 - 2010/10/04	Research Trainee (Research)	Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2008/04/01 - 2009/10/26	Research Assistant (Research)	Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
	Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral Campus Prosperina, Ecuador

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/11/01 - 2021/07/31	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Cardiff University, United Kingdom
	Cardiff University School of Computer Science and Informatics, United Kingdom
2016/04/11 - 2019/10/15	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Leicester, United Kingdom
	University of Leicester Department of Computer Science, United Kingdom
2014/07/01 - 2014/08/14	Tutor (University Teacher)	VIA University College - Campus Horsens, Denmark
	VIA University College - Campus Horsens, Denmark

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2006/03/01 - 2008/03/31	Developer at the Research & Development Unit, Centre of Information Technologies	Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
	Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral Campus Prosperina, Ecuador

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/01/01 - Current	ParenCoach: Adaptation, development, and deployment of a chatbot to improve health literacy and care of first-time parents FCT AGA-KHAN / 541742216 / 2019 Invited Scientist Fellow Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Aga Khan Development Network Ongoing
2019/04/30 - 2022/04/30	PERU SANO: New strategies to reduce anaemia and risk of overweight and obesity through complementary feeding of infants and young children in Peru MR/S024921/1	UK Research and Innovation Ongoing
2020/09/16 - 2022/03/31	STAMINA: Strategies to Mitigate Nutritional Risks among mothers and infants under 2 years in low income urban households in Peru during COVID-19 EP/V034057/1 Co-Investigator Loughborough University, United Kingdom Cardiff University School of Computer Science and Informatics, United Kingdom Nutrition Research Institute Peru, Peru	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Ongoing
2020/05/01 - 2022/01/31	CoMaCH: Co-designing Community-based ICTs Interventions to Enhance Maternal and Child Health in South Africa EP/T030429/1 Principal investigator Cardiff University, United Kingdom	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Ongoing
2020/09/01 - 2021/10/31	Understanding agricultural azole use, impacts on local water bodies and AMR: building an interdisciplinary evidence base in Devon and Bristol Cabot Co-Investigator University of Exeter, United Kingdom Cardiff University School of Computer Science and Informatics, United Kingdom University of Bristol - Veterinary School, United Kingdom	University of Bristol - Cabot Institute for the Environment Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2021/07/31	HEFCW GCRF Fellowship Award for Naveen Bagalkot: Exploring Community-based Infrastructures to Support Digital Maternal and Child Health in Low-resource Settings in India JA2810RD05 Coordinator of Research Fellowship Cardiff University School of Computer Science and Informatics, United Kingdom	Cardiff University Ongoing
2020/08/01 - 2021/03/31	Exploring antibiotic use practices in livestock production through a novel, game-based approach Cru20_03 Co-Investigator University of Exeter, United Kingdom Cardiff University School of Computer Science and Informatics, United Kingdom University of Bristol Department of Mechanical Engineering, United Kingdom	GW4 Alliance Ongoing
2019/04/01 - 2019/08/31	Establishing a cross-disciplinary Partnership to Explore Women's Everyday Experiences and Infrastructural Challenges of Healthcare Systems in Relation to Maternal Health to Scope Opportunities for Digital Health Technologies in the Global South NA Principal investigator University of Leicester, United Kingdom	Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/06/30	Helping Children and Caregivers to Engage with the Therapeutic Environment of the Clinic NA Other University of Leicester, United Kingdom	Concluded
2018/03/01 - 2019/02/28	Healthy Crossroads in Pregnancy Care (HCPC) - A Scoping and Participatory Design Study of the Potential for ICTs to Improve Maternal Health in India MC_PC_MR/R024480 University of Leicester, United Kingdom	UK Research and Innovation Concluded
2017/08 - 2018/09	‘DEPAC’: Digital enablement, promise and uncertainty in maternity care. NA Other University of Leicester, United Kingdom	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021/12/01 - 2022/05/31	CoLRN: A Community-based Vision for Local Resilient Networks CoLRN Other	Ongoing
2018/04/01 - 2018/10/31	Digitizing Reproduction: new technologies, intersectionality and the politics of inclusion NA Other University of Leicester, United Kingdom	Concluded

Publications

Conference abstract	Karusala, Naveena; Ismail, Azra; Bhat, Karthik S; Gautam, Aakash; Pendse, Sachin R; Kumar, Neha; Anderson, Richard; et al. "The Future of Care Work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and Practice". 2021. 10.1145/3462204.3481734 Chen, Yunan; Verdezoto, Nervo; Gui, Xinning; Ma, Xiaojuan; Bossen, Claus; Bagalkot, Naveen; Herskovic, Valeria; Ploderer, Bernd. "Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Patients and Caregivers around the World". Paper presented in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '19, 2019. Published • 10.1145/3290607.3299021 Verdezoto, Nervo; Nunes, Francisco; Grönvall, Erik; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Storni, Cristiano; Kyng, Morten. "Designing self-care for everyday life". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14, 2014. Published • 10.1145/2639189.2654837
Conference paper	Bagalkot, Naveen; Akbar, Syeda Zainab; Sharma, Swati; Mackintosh, Nicola; Harrington, Deirdre; Griffiths, Paula; Noronha, Judith Angelitta; VERDEZOTO, NERVO. "Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India". Paper presented in ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022. Accepted VERDEZOTO, NERVO; Bagalkot, Naveen; Akbar, Syeda Zainab; Sharma, Swati; Mackintosh, Nicola; Harrington, Deirdre; Griffiths, Paula. "The Invisible Work of Maintenance in Community Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Health to Support Frontline HealthWorkers in Karnataka, South India". Paper presented in The 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021), 2021. In press • https://doi.org/10.1145/3449165 Francisco Maria Cruz Nunes; João Almeida; Chia-Fang Chung; VERDEZOTO, NERVO. "Avoiding Reactions Outside the Home: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities to Enhance Dining Out Experiences of People with Food Hypersensitivities". Paper presented in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021. In press Verdezoto, Nervo; Carpio-Arias, Francisca; Carpio-Arias, Valeria; Mackintosh, Nicola; Eslambolchilar, Parisa; Delgado, Verónica; Andrade, Catherine; Vásconez, Galo. "Indigenous Women Managing Pregnancy Complications in Rural Ecuador". Paper presented in The 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (NordiCHI 2020), Tallinn, 2020. Published • 10.1145/3419249.3420141 Bagalkot, Naveen; Verdezoto, Nervo; Ghode, Anushri; Purohit, Shipra; Murthy, Lakshmi; Mackintosh, Nicola; Griffiths, Paula. "Beyond Health Literacy: Navigating Boundaries and Relationships During High-risk Pregnancies". Paper presented in The 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (NordiCHI2020), Tallinn, 2020. Published • 10.1145/3419249.3420126 Carlo, Lorena; Carpio, Valeria; Verdezoto, Nervo; Eslambolchilar, Parisa; Cruz, Eduardo; Malo, Frank; Espinosa, Danilo. "Healthcare Infrastructures in Ecuador: Challenges, Reflections and Opportunities for Digital Health". Paper presented in ICTD2020: International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Guayaquil, 2020. Published • 10.1145/3392561.3397578 Araujo, Hugo L. S.; Damasceno, Carlos Diego N.; Dimitrova, Rayna; Kefalidou, Genovefa; Mehtarizadeh, Mehdi; Mousavi, Mohammad Reza; Onime, Jemima; et al. "Trusted Autonomous Vehicles: an Interactive Exhibit". Paper presented in IEEE International Conferences on Ubiquitous Computing & Communications and Data Science and Computational Intelligence and Smart Computing, Networking and Services, Shenyang, 2019. Published • 10.1109/iucc/dsci/smartcns.2019.00091 VERDEZOTO, NERVO; Bagalkot, Naveen; Akbar, Syeda Zainab; Sharmab, Swati; Mackintosh, Nicola; Harrington, Deirdre. "Infrastructural Artefacts in Community Health: A Case Study of Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India". Paper presented in INFRAHEALTH 2019, 2019. Published • 10.18420/IHC2019_006 Bagalkot, Naveen; Verdezoto, Nervo; Lewis, Mitchelle; Griffiths, Paula; Harrington, Deirdre; Mackintosh, Nicola; Noronha, Judith Angelitta. "Towards Enhancing Everyday Pregnancy Care". Paper presented in IndiaHCI 18, 2018. Published • 10.1145/3297121.3297130 Zubaidi-Polli, Anna Maria Al; Verdezoto, Nervo; R-Smith, Nawfal Al Zubaidi; Anderst-Kotsis, Gabriele. "Ex-situ technology appropriation of an e-deliberation platform in an art gallery". Paper presented in iiWAS '17, 2017. Published • 10.1145/3151759.3151761 Rasmussen, Majken K.; Rasmussen, Mia Kruse; Verdezoto, Nervo; Brewer, Robert; Nielsen, Laura L.; Bouvin, Niels Olof. "Exploring the flexibility of everyday practices for shifting energy consumption through clockcast". Paper presented in OZCHI '17, 2017. Published • 10.1145/3152771.3152803 Heintz, Matthias; Law, Effie Lai-Chong; Verdezoto, Nervo. "Comparing Paper and Software Tool for Participatory Design from Scratch". Paper presented in BritishHCI 2017, 2017. Published • 10.14236/ewic/hci2017.51 Stisen, Allan; Verdezoto, Nervo. "Clinical and Non-Clinical Handovers". Paper presented in CSCW 2017, 2017. Published • 10.1145/2998181.2998333 Muller, Michael; Neureiter, Katja; VERDEZOTO, NERVO; Krischkowsky, Alina; Al Zubaidi-Polli, Anna Maria; Tscheligi, Manfred. "Collaborative Appropriation: How Couples, Teams, Groups and Communities Adapt and Adopt Technologies". Paper presented in CSCW '16 Companion, 2016. Published • 10.1145/2818052.2855508 Stisen, Allan; Verdezoto, Nervo; Blunck, Henrik; Kjærgaard, Mikkel Baun; Grønbæk, Kaj. "Accounting for the Invisible Work of Hospital Orderlies: Designing for Local and Global Coordination". Paper presented in CSCW '16, 2016. Published • 10.1145/2818048.2820006 Lanng, Henrik; Lykkegaard, Anders; Thornholm, Søren; Tzannis, Philip; Verdezoto, Nervo. "PeaceKeeper: Augmenting the Awareness and Communication of Noise Pollution in Student Dormitories". Paper presented in AH '16, 2016. Published • 10.1145/2875194.2875218 Erik Grönvall; Nervo Verdezoto; Naveen Bagalkot; Tomas Sokoler. "Concordance: A Critical Participatory Alternative in Healthcare IT". Paper presented in AAHCC 2015, 2015. Published • 10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21315 Brewer, Robert S.; Verdezoto, Nervo; Rasmussen, Mia Kruse; Entwistle, Johanne Mose; Grønbæk, Kaj; Blunck, Henrik; Holst, Thomas. "Challenge: Getting Residential Users to Shift Their Electricity Usage Patterns". Paper presented in e-Energy '15: Getting Residential Users to Shift Their Electricity Usage Patterns, 2015. Published • 10.1145/2768510.2770934 Brewer, Robert S.; Verdezoto, Nervo; Holst, Thomas; Rasmussen, Mia Kruse. "Tough Shift: Exploring the Complexities of Shifting Residential Electricity Use Through a Casual Mobile Game". Paper presented in CHI PLAY '15, 2015. Published • 10.1145/2793107.2793108 Entwistle, Johanne Mose; Rasmussen, Mia Kruse; Verdezoto, Nervo; Brewer, Robert S.; Andersen, Mads Schaarup. "Beyond the Individual: The Contextual Wheel of Practice as a Research Framework for Sustainable HCI". Paper presented in CHI '15, 2015. Published • 10.1145/2702123.2702232 Skovgaard, Christoffer; Thomsen, Josephine Raun; Verdezoto, Nervo; Vestergaard, Daniel. "DogPulse: Augmenting the Coordination of Dog Walking through an Ambient Awareness System at Home". Paper presented in AH '15, 2015. Published • 10.1145/2735711.2735825 Dalgaard, Lea Gulstav; Gronvall, Erik; Verdezoto, Nervo. "MediFrame: A Tablet Application to Plan, Inform, Remind and Sustain Older Adults' Medication Intake". Paper presented in ICHI 2013, 2013. Published • 10.1109/ichi.2013.12 Dalgaard, Lea; Grönvall, Erik; Verdezoto, Nervo. "Accounting for Medication Particularities: Designing for Everyday Medication Management". Paper presented in PervasiveHealth 2013, 2013. Published • 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252058 Grönvall, Erik; Verdezoto, Nervo. "Understanding challenges and opportunities of preventive blood pressure self-monitoring at home". Paper presented in ECCE '13, 2013. Published • 10.1145/2501907.2501962 Grönvall, Erik; Verdezoto, Nervo. "Beyond Self-monitoring: Understanding Non-functional Aspects of Home-based Healthcare Technology". Paper presented in UbiComp '13, 2013. Published • 10.1145/2493432.2493495 Verdezoto, Nervo Xavier; Wolff Olsen, Jesper. "Personalized medication management: towards a design of individualized support for elderly citizens at home". Paper presented in IHI '12, 2012. Published • 10.1145/2110363.2110463 VERDEZOTO, NERVO; Vieu, Laure. "Towards Semi-automatic Methods for Improving WordNet". Paper presented in IWCS '11, 2011. Published
Conference poster	Jespersen, Sine; Stounbjerg, Rasmus; Verdezoto, Nervo. "AmBird: Mediating Intimacy for Long Distance Relationships through an Ambient Awareness System". Paper presented in Aarhus Series on Human Centered Computing, 2015. 10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21321 Nielsen, Nick; Pedersen, Sandra B. P. S.; Sørensen, Jens A.; Verdezoto, Nervo; Øllegaard, Nikolai H.. "EcoBears: Augmenting Everyday Appliances with Symbolic and Peripheral Feedback". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 6th Augmented Human International Conference on - AH '15, 2015. 10.1145/2735711.2735817
Journal article	Numera M.I. Shahid; Effie Lai-Chong Law; Nervo Verdezoto. "Technology-enhanced support for children with Down Syndrome: A systematic literature review". International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 31 (2022): 100340-100340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100340. 10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100340 Carpio-Arias, Tannia Valeria; Verdezoto, Nervo; Guijarro-Garvi, Marta; Abril-Ulloa, Victoria; Mackintosh, Nicola; Eslambolchilar, Parisa; Ruíz-Cantero, María Teresa. "Healthcare professionals’ experiences and perceptions regarding health care of indigenous pregnant women in Ecuador". BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04432-5. Published • 10.1186/s12884-022-04432-5 Nicola Mackintosh; Qian (Sarah) Gong; Michelle Hadjiconstantinou; Nervo Verdezoto. "Digital mediation of candidacy in maternity care: Managing boundaries between physiology and pathology". Social Science & Medicine 285 (2021): 114299-114299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114299. 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114299 Mitchell, Jessica; Cooke, Paul; Baral, Sushil; Bull, Naomi; Stones, Catherine; Tsekleves, Emmanuel; Verdezoto, Nervo; et al. "The values and principles underpinning community engagement approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR)". Global Health Action 12 sup1 (2019): 1837484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2020.1837484. Published • 10.1080/16549716.2020.1837484 Anna Maria Al Zubaidi-Polli; Nervo Verdezoto. "Learning from appropriation practices". International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 14 1 (2018): 49-72. https://doi.org/10.1108%2Fijpcc-d-18-00007. Published • 10.1108/ijpcc-d-18-00007 Nunes, Francisco; Verdezoto, Nervo; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Kyng, Morten; Grönvall, Erik; Storni, Cristiano. "Self-Care Technologies in HCI". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 22 6 (2015): 1-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2803173. Published • 10.1145/2803173 Nervo Verdezoto; Erik Grönvall. "On preventive blood pressure self-monitoring at home". Cogn Tech Work 18 2 (2015): 267-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10111-015-0358-7. 10.1007/s10111-015-0358-7 Nervo Verdezoto; Francisco Nunes; Erik Grönvall; Geraldine Fitzpatrick; Cristiano Storni; Morten Kyng. "Proceedings of Designing Self-care for Everyday Life. Workshop in conjunction with NordiCHI 2014, 27th October.". DPB 41 597 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dpb.v41i597.20665. 10.7146/dpb.v41i597.20665

Award

2006	Best Bachelor Student Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador