Biography

Mara Dionisio is Assistant Professor at University of Madeira and 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 from her PhD in Digital Media at the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon (FCT-UNL) and holds a Master in Informatics Engineering from the University of Madeira and a Master 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 in her PhD topic, understanding how to best leverage on mobile transmedia entertainment to raise awareness towards local cultural and natural heritage, but is also advising master thesis on educational games for children, combining citizen science with gamification approaches and raising awareness towards marine biodiversity.