Department of Performing and Digital Arts

Katerina El Raheb



Rank
Assistant Professor

Katerina El Raheb (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the Fine Arts School – University of Peloponnese in Greece in “Informatics Applications in Performing Arts”. She has collaborated as a Human Computer Interaction researcher with the MADgIK lab at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Athena Research and Innovation Center since 2009. She has worked in projects that design and develop technologies for cultural heritage, artistic creation, and education with focus on the human-centric approach and methodologies that consider the embodied, moving, expressive, social multifaceted human needs. As a researcher and project manager she worked in several EU and national funded projects such as BRIDGES, Aria, Transition to 8, DERC, WhoLoDancE, eCultValue, DL.org, e.nventory. She holds a PhD from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (NKUA) on “Conceptual and Experiential Dance Languages: Representation and Interaction”, an MSc. in Advanced Information Systems, from the same department, and a BSc. in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She got a professional diploma from Niki Kontaxaki dance school in 2009, has training in different forms of dance and embodied practices and has collaborated as an artist with Yelp Dance Co., Periigites, Kinitiras Artistic Network for Performing Arts, and as an EMAP (European Media Arts Platform) resident artist at Onassis Center.

Field
Informatics Applications in Performing Arts: Motion Recording and Processing, Digital Performance Reproduction, Interactive Directions
Studies
2021, Postdoc in Embodied Ηuman Computer Interaction (Computer Science), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2019, PhD in Computer Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2010, MSc in Advanced Informatics Systems (Computer Science), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2009, Diploma in Classic and Contemporary Dance Τeaching, Kontaxaki-Bakali Professional School, Greece
2003, BSc in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, Digital Arts & Heritage, Computing in Performing Arts, eXtended Reality, Dance Technology
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