Debora C. F. de Souza is a Brazilian visual artist and journalist. Graduated in Social Communication, at the University of Mato Grosso do Sul Foundation in Brazil. Her artwork and research are marked by experiments with different kinds of images and audiovisual media. Throughout the graduation, she investigated the appeal of photography on journalistic pieces, winning in 2012 a national award for experimental research in the field.Currently, she is a Human-Computer Interaction master’s student at Tallinn University, from where she has been researching how the use of anthropomorphic virtual agents has implications on the human affective states and social interactions.