Education
Dear recruiter,
in 2013 I began the greatest professional achievement of my life.
Thanks to the taxpayers of the State of São Paulo, to whom I extend my heartfelt gratitude, I was awarded a scholarship from the Families' School Program (Escola da Família).
In the Families' School Program, the state government grants scholarships to university students, who, in exchange, work on weekends in public state schools. According to the rules, each university student should create and maintain two projects to share with the local community the knowledge learned in the academic world.
For four years, I taught computing in public state schools on Saturdays and Sundays. I also taught chess and board games to children to help them improve their school performance.
Giving back to society sparked my interest in accessibility, which later influenced the choice of the topic for my final university project.
In 2015, voice recognition technology was popular because it was being used in some applications created with the intention of becoming virtual assistants. Given the publicity achieved by this type of application, and the exclusive promotion of its playful/recreational benefits, it became pertinent to evaluate the benefits of such technology if employed as an accessibility tool for people with disabilities.
Inspired by the feeling of giving back to the community, in 2016, I completed my Bachelor's degree in Information Systems with a case study aimed at discovering whether the Windows 10 virtual assistant (Cortana), used as an accessibility facilitator, can assist a user with total blindness in navigating the web. According to the 2010 Demographic Census conducted by IBGE, 506,377 Brazilians could benefit.
Dear Recruiter,
below there is a reading link — unlike a traditional thesis, the scientific article is short, quick to read, simple, and objective.
I would like to conclude by thanking my friends Aldner da Silva and Vanilson da Silva, co-authors who actively participated in the research, writing, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of the efficiency of the Cortana voice command recognition system
I also extend my heartfelt thanks to Professor Fabiano Pagliotto, the project advisor, as well as all the other staff and professors at NetWork Colleges (Faculdades NetWork).