Katerina Mania
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Sussex, Associate Professor
Other Affiliation(s):
- Technical University of Crete, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Location:
- Chania, Greece
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2020
Katerina Mania serves as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece after research positions at HP Labs, UK where she worked on Web3D and University of Sussex, UK where she served as an Assistant Professor in Multimedia Systems. She received her BSc in Mathematics from the University of Crete, Greece and her MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, UK. Her primary research interests integrate perception, vision and neuroscience to optimise computer graphics rendering and VR technologies with current focus on gaze-contingent displays. She has co-chaired technical programs and has participated in over 100 international conference program committees. She serves as one of the Associate Editors for Presence, Tele-operators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press) and ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.
SIGGRAPH 2014
Katerina Mania completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Crete, an M.Sc./Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Bristol funded by HP Labs. She worked at HP Labs as a researcher and as faculty in the University of Sussex. Katerina spent her sabbaticals at NASA Ames Research Centre (Advanced Displays/Spatial Perception Laboratory) in 2003 and at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2013. She is now an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Crete, an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception and Presence Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and in the steering committee of the Symposium on Applied Perception.
SIGGRAPH 2010
Katerina Mania completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece, an M.Sc./Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK, funded by HP Labs. She worked at HP Labs as a researcher before serving on Faculty in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. Katerina spent her sabbatical at NASA Ames Research Centre (Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception Laboratory) in 2003. She is currently an Assistant Professor with tenure at the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Katerina is the program co-chair for APGV 2010 and Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception and Presence Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.
Course Organizer:
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Posters]
Holo-Box: Level-of-Detail Glanceable Interfaces for Augmented Reality Presenter(s): [Daskalogrigorakis] [McNamara] [Mania]
Entry No.: [42]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Attention-Aware Rendering, Mobile Graphics, and Games Organizer(s): [McNamara]
Presenter(s): [McNamara] [Mania] [Koulieris] [Itti]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Posters]
Context-aware Material Selective Rendering for Mobile Graphics Presenter(s): [Koulieris] [Drettakis] [Cunningham] [Sidorakis] [Mania]
Entry No.: [23]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]

Type: [Posters]
Cyberball3D+ for fMRI: Implementing Neuroscientific Gaming Presenter(s): [Mavromihelaki] [Eccles] [Harrison] [Critchley] [Mania]
Entry No.: [32]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]