Mara Dionisio
Biography
Mara Dionisio is an Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira. Currently, she is teaching Interactive Narratives, Interactive Media Design and Software Processes as part of the Masters on Informatics Engineering and Interactive Media Design. She graduated with her PhD in Digital Media at the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon (FCT-UNL). She holds a Master’s in Informatics Engineering from the University of Madeira and a Master’s in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.
Mara’s research interests at ITI intersect the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Storytelling, and Entertainment.
She continues to work on her PhD topic, understanding how to leverage mobile transmedia entertainment best to raise awareness towards local cultural and natural heritage. She also advises master theses on educational games for children, combining citizen science with gamification approaches and raising awareness towards marine biodiversity.
Related Projects
Publications
2014
Possible Pasts, Possible Futures: Exploring Past and Future Scenarios Through Context-Aware Transmedia Stories Conference
Data Ecologies, Linz, Austria, 2014.
2013
Eat and Travel: A New Immersive Dining Experience for Restaurants Conference
10th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACM ACM, Twente, Netherlands, 2013.
Eat&Travel: A New Immersive Dining Experience for Restaurants Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Computer Entertainment, pp. 532–535, Springer, 2013.
2011
iLand: A Tangible Location Aware Narrative Experience Conference
TEI 2011: Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, [Acceptance Rate: 30%], SIGCHI SIGCHI, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0628-7, (<p>5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Madeira, PORTUGAL, JAN 23-26, 2011</p>).
iLand: A Tangible Location Aware Narrative Experience Conference
TEI 2011: Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, [Acceptance Rate: 30%], SIGCHI SIGCHI, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0628-7, (<p>5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Madeira, PORTUGAL, JAN 23-26, 2011</p>).
iLand: a tangible location aware narrative experience Proceedings Article
In: TEI, pp. 407–408, ACM, 2011.
2010
The iLand of Madeira Location Aware Multimedia Stories Conference
Interactive Storytelling, vol. 6432, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Scottish Informat & Comp Sci Alliance; EPSRC, Artificial Intelligence & Games Res Network Scottish Informat & Comp Sci Alliance; EPSRC, Artificial Intelligence & Games Res Network, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-16637-2, (<p>3rd Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, NOV 01-03, 2010</p>).
The iLand of Madeira Location Aware Multimedia Stories Conference
Interactive Storytelling, vol. 6432, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Scottish Informat & Comp Sci Alliance; EPSRC, Artificial Intelligence & Games Res Network Scottish Informat & Comp Sci Alliance; EPSRC, Artificial Intelligence & Games Res Network, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-16637-2, (<p>3rd Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, NOV 01-03, 2010</p>).
The iLand of Madeira Location Aware Multimedia Stories Proceedings Article
In: ICIDS, pp. 147–152, Springer, 2010.
2008
Incorporating legal rules on procedural house generation Proceedings Article
In: SCCG, pp. 59–66, ACM, 2008.