Gabriella Giannachi#
| Membership Number: | 3883 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/giannachi |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of Center for Intermedia
- Professor of Performance and New Media, Exeter University
- PhD Cambridge University, UK
- BA in Modern Literature, Turn University, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Art and technology
- Mobile interpretation and user-generated documentation
- Creation, exhibition, and sharing of archival resources
- Mixed and virtual reality
- Presence
- Environmental and ecological performance
- Oral history and digital heritage
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Jacobs, R., Benford, S., Selby, M., Golembewski, M., Price, D. Giannachi, G., ‘A conversation between trees: What data feels like in the forest’, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (CHI 2013), 129-138, best paper and honorable mention
- 2012 Nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- 2012 Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Giannachi, G., Walker, B., Marshall, J., Rodden, T., 'Uncomfortable Interactions', Proceedings ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), Austin Texas, ACM Press, best paper award
- 2012 Giannachi, G. and Kaye, N. (2012) Performing Presence, Manchester: Manchester University Press, nominated in Theatre Library Association 44th Annual Book Awards.
- 2009 Benford, S., Giannachi, G., Koleva, B., and Rodden, T. ‘From Interaction to Trajectories: Designing Coherent Journeys Through User Experiences’, Proceedings ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Boston, MA, April 5-9, 2009, ACM Press, best paper award
