Katerina El Raheb

Digital Queens: A case study on cloth simulation motion capture and XR technologies for addressing costume-choreography challenges

Marina Stergiou, Anthie Kolokotroni, Katerina El Raheb, Spyros Vosinakis

This paper explores the integration of digital cloth simulation, motion capture, and Extended Reality (XR) technologies into choreographic and costume design practices. Focusing on the case study “Chess Queens” - a dance performance in Athens, Greece, featuring cone-shaped skirts as central choreographic …

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Streetstories

Katerina El Raheb

Streetstories is an artistic practice that has emerged over the past five years (2020–2025), rather than being deliberately designed. It arose out of necessity — an embodied practice that consists of walking, discovering, capturing, and posting as Instagram Stories frames of rather …

The Co-Living between Reality and Virtuality as a Daily Routine

Georgios Tsampounaris, Alex Pau Fuentes Raventos, Michael Wiesing, Roger Montserrat et autres

Mixed Reality (MR) is emerging as a new standard of reality, where the blending of virtual and physical elements is set to become the norm. With AI-powered XR wearables being more widely available to the public, users will be able to transition …

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IMAGINE Personalities: Augmenting Digital Character Workflows Using Motion Capture, Wearable Sensors, and Live Coding

Dimitris Baltas, Anthie Kolokotroni, Katerina Malisova, Marina Stergiou et autres

This study examines how emerging sensor-based technologies can augment the personality expression of digital characters across multiple media. While digital animation and games have traditionally relied on movement to convey traits, the integration of motion capture, wearable biosensors, and live coding introduces …

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Extending the Performing Space through Virtual Reality

Katerina El Raheb, Anastasios Theodoropoulos

In this work we present the challenges and opportunities for using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies as a medium to expand the space and time of the performing stage and storyline through the experimental collaborative performance. This interdisciplinary artistic and experimental exploration took …

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Immersed in the Mind of a Music Composer: A VR Memoryscape for Exploring Archival Material

Marina Stergiou, Katerina Servi, Gabriel Gourdoglou, Lori Kougioumtzian et autres

This research article introduces a virtual reality (VR) experience designed as a “memoryscape” to immerse users in the life and work of Nikos Skalkottas, a significant yet relatively unknown Greek composer of the 20th century. The VR experience integrates archival material, such …

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Sensing the Inside Out: An Embodied Perspective on Digital Animation Through Motion Capture and Wearables

Katerina El Raheb, Lori Kougioumtzian, Vilelmini Kalampratsidou, Anastasios Theodoropoulos et autres

Over the last few decades, digital technology has played an important role in innovating the pipeline, techniques, and approaches for creating animation. Sensors for motion capture not only enabled the incorporation of physical human movement in all its precision and expressivity but …

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Disembodiment in VR: Immersed in 3D Audio Experiences

Dimitris Batsis, Magdalini Grigoriadou, Katerina El Raheb, Archontis Politis

In this paper, we discuss the notion of disembodiment as a driving force of inspiration in artificial systemsusing Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D audio technologies. In these environments, immersion is the common denominatorbetween the impression of disembodiment, which involves spatial ability, and …

Here is an episode! Synchronizing and organizing citizens' biosignals for global artistic inspiration

Vilelmini Kalampratsidou, Georgia Koutiva, Katerina El Raheb, Marina Stergiou et autres

This work presents the design and development of a methodology investigating the ways that data deriving from human-embodied social experience can be synchronized, curated, and organized to be provided to artists for inspiration and integration in their creations. Given the new media …

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Data and Artistic Creation: challenges and opportunities of online mediation

Katerina El Raheb, Marina Stergiou, Georgia Koutiva, Vilelmini Kalampratsidou et autres

Artistic creation using data that come from different domains such as the human body, environment, scientific measures etc. is not new to the contemporary artistic scene. The transformation of bodily data into other modalities through sonification or visualization in interactive music, dance …

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From Capturing Social Issues to art Production and Community Mobilization

Philia Issari, Evangelia Karydi, Eugenie Georgaca, Flora Koliouli et autres

In this chapter, we describe a participatory, multimodal, experiential study of social issues, aiming towards community exploration and potential mobilization related to local social concerns. It is part of an ongoing innovative transdisciplinary project, entitled “Transition to 8: bridging social issues, tech …

Exploring Digital Communication Needs of Local Communities and Self-organized Collectives

Katerina El Raheb, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Μαρία Ρούσσου, Patrick L. Olivier et autres

Recent work in HCI has explored the use of ICTs for the mobilisation and organisation of values-led communities and social movements. This paper extends this line of work by exploring the design of a communication system for informal, place-based citizen collectives-also referred …

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