2024–current — RUDIMENTS: Reflective Understanding of Digital Instruments as Musical Entanglements
Project ID: EP/X023478/1, funded by Horizon Europe Guarantee

2021–2024 — Manipulating Acoustic Wavefronts using Metamaterials for Novel User Interfaces
Project ID: 787413, funded by EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council

2021 — Innovating Sema: Community-building of Live Coding Language Design and Performance with Machine Learning
Project ID: AH/V005154/1, funded by UKRI/AHRC

2019–2020 — MIMIC: Musically Intelligent Machines Interacting Collectivelly
Project ID: AH/R002657/1, funded by UKRI/AHRC

2015–2018 — RAPID-MIX: Realtime Adaptive Prototyping for Industrial Design of Multimodal Interactive eXpressive Technology
Project ID: 644862, funded by EU Horizon 2020 ICT-2014-1

2013–2014 — VisualYsART: Visual Programming Framework for Augmented Reality and Ubiquitous Natural User Interfaces
Project ID: 23201, funded by ERDF, through COMPETE program (POFC)

2025

Impedance Synthesis for Hybrid Analog-Digital Audio Effects
Bernardo, F., Davison, M., McPherson, A.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx25), Ancona, Italy, 2–5 September 2025.

2022

Virtually tasty: An investigation of the effect of ambient lighting and 3D-shaped taste stimuli on taste perception in virtual reality
Cornelio, P., Dawes, C., Maggioni, E., Bernardo, F., Matti, S., Mai, M., Pawlizak, S., Zhang, J., Nelles, G., Krasteva, N. and Obrist, M.
International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, Volume 30, 100626, ISSN 1878-450X,

2021

Assessing the Support for Creativity of a Playground for Live Coding Machine Learning .
Bernardo, F., Kiefer, C., Magnusson, T.
In: Baalsrud Hauge, J., C. S. Cardoso, J., Roque, L., Gonzalez-Calero, P.A. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13056. Springer, Cham.

2020

A Signal Engine for a Live Coding Language Ecosystem
Bernardo, F., Kiefer, C., Magnusson, T.
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 68 (10), 756-766.

Designing and Evaluating the Usability of a Machine Learning API for Rapid Prototyping Music Technology .
Bernardo, F., Zbyszyński, M., Grierson, M., Fiebrink, R.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence – Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Special issue on Music and AI. Vol. 3. DOI: 10.3389/frai.2020.00013

Designing for a Pluralist and User-Friendly Live Code Language Ecosystem with Sema
Bernardo, F., Kiefer, C., Magnusson, T.
5th International Conference on Live Coding, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

2019

An AudioWorklet-based Signal Engine for a Live Coding Language Ecosystem
Bernardo, F., Kiefer, C., Magnusson, T.
In Proceedings of Web Audio Conference 2019. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
(Best Paper Award)

2018

User-Centred Design Actions for Lightweight Evaluation of an Interactive Machine Learning Toolkit
Bernardo, F., Grierson, M., Fiebrink, R.
Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (CITARj), v. 10, n. 2, p. 2- 25-38, jul. 2018. ISSN 2183-0088. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v10i2.509

Prototyping a New Audio-Visual Instrument Based on Extraction of High-Level Features on Full-Body Motion
Tilmanne, J., d’Alessandro, N., Barborka, P., Bayansar, F., Bernardo, F., Fiebrink, R., Heloir, A., Hemery, E., Laraba, S., Moinet, A., Nunnari, F., Ravet, T., Reboursière, L., Sarasua, A., Tits, M., Tits, N., Zajéga, F.
Proceedings of eNTERFACE 2015 Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces, Mons, Belgium

2017

Interactive Machine Learning for End-User Innovation
Bernardo, F., Zbyszyński, M., Fiebrink, R., Grierson, M.
Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems
Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Inteligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

O Soli Mio: Exploring Millimeter Wave Radar for Musical Interaction
Bernardo, F., Arner, N., Batchelor, P.
Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2017, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Demonstrating Interactive Machine Learning Tools for Rapid Prototyping of Gestural Instruments in the Browser
Parkinson, A., Zbyszyński, M., Bernardo, F.
Proceedings of Web Audio Conference 2017, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

2016

Designing and measuring gesture using Laban Movement Analysis and Electromyogram
Ward, N., Ortiz, M., Bernardo, F., Tanaka, A.
3rd Workshop on Full-Body and Multisensory Experience (BodySenseUX), UbiComp'16, Heidelberg, Germany

2015

The Smart Stage: Designing 3D Interaction Metaphors for Immersive and Ubiquitous Music Systems
Bernardo, F., Pestana, P., Martins, L.
International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC 2015), Treviso, Italy - ISBN: 978-88-6551-188-6

2014

Disintermediation Effects on Independent Approaches to Music Business
Bernardo, F., Martins, L.
International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR) – issn 2227-5789

Music video games in live performance: Catachresis or an emergent approach?
Bernardo, F.
Videojogos 2014 - Conferência de Ciências e Artes dos Videojogos, Barcelos, Portugal

Dodging the Middleman: Insights on Disintermediation in the Independent Music Sector
Bernardo, F.
KISMIF International Conference on Underground music scenes and DIY cultures, Porto, Portugal

2013

Disintermediation effects in the music business – A return to old times?
Bernardo, F., Martins, L.
Music Business Research Days 2013, Vienna, Austria
(Best Paper Award)

2009

Extended Bluetooth naming for empowered presence and situated interaction with public displays.
José, R., Bernardo, F.
3th Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008