Andreia Valente

About

Our bodies often react before we consciously understand why. Your heart speeds up, your shoulders tense, your breathing changes. In many ways, our bodies are constantly telling stories about our emotions before our conscious experience catches up.

My research explores the loop between the body and the mind. I study how physiological signals shape our emotions and how technology can intervene in that process. Using haptics, XR, and physiological computing, I want to know how emotions can be reshaped and shared.

The long-term vision of this work is to help people reshape their physiological memories. If emotions are partly constructed from how we read our bodies, then changing that feedback loop may allow us to engineer emotions, giving people new ways to reclaim agency over their emotional experiences.