Dr Mariza Dima
Reader in Games Design
- Digital Arts - Games
Summary
Mariza is a Reader in Games Design. She specialises in User Experience and User Interface design for developing meaningful and engaging interactions particularly using mobile, AR and haptic technologies. She has worked between academia and the creative industries as an interaction designer and creative technologist in R&D projects combining engineering and design approaches grounded on theoretical contexts of narrative, affective dramaturgy, and audience/player engagement. Her reseech interests are in experience design methdologies for cyber-physical environments, and applied games for social innovation (live action, role playing, digital).
A keen knowledge hunter, she is often inspired by and experiments playfully with perspectives from different fields that could offer a useful alternative lens on user experience design and then turns them into a tool for designing engaging experiences. Her design approach is holistic and experiential where the designer embeds and immerses herself in a collaborative design process and views it as an educational and transformative experience rather than participating in it as a design expert.
She also consults on strategies for devising and developing digital projects and user interactions in the creative industries and has expertise in design methods for collaboration and co-creation.
Qualifications
PhD in Human-Computer Interaction Design, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh College of Art)
MSc in Design and Digital Media, University of Edinburgh
BSc in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens
Responsibility
Impact Lead for Arts & Humanities
Newest selected publications
Dima, M. and Daylamani-Zad, D. (2024) ''. Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, 11 (Especial). pp. 1 - 23.
Saridaki, M. and Dima, M. (2023) 'Where the Magic is: Ceremonial magic as a Design Perspective for Mixed Reality Immersive Experiences', in Schniz, F. and Marcato, L. (eds.) Fictional Practices of Spirituality. Bielfeld, Germany : Transcript Publishing. , I. pp. 187 - 207. ISBN 10: 3-8394-6192-8. ISBN 13: 978-3-8376-6192-7.
Dima, M. (2022) ''. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 15 (4). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 1556-4673
Dima, M., Xanthaki, A., Deniozou, T. and Luoma, C. (2022) ''. International Journal of Children's Rights, 30 (1). pp. 41 - 71. ISSN: 0927-5568
Deniozou, T. and Dima, M. (2022) 'Developing and Piloting a Remote Design Model to Boost Interdisciplinary co-Learning, Motivation and Creativity'.Teaching and Learning Conference 2022. Northumbria University, Newcastle.