Clara Mancini
Personal Homepage:
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/clara
Current place of employment:
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, United Kingdom
Clara Mancini is presently research fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, where she works in a highly interdisciplinary environment.
In general, her work is concerned with the understanding of electronic media's linguistic possibilities and their implications for both human communication and computer system design. Her research interests include hypermedia languages; knowledge modelling and discourse representation in hypertext; hypermedia repositories and digital libraries; hypertext discourse and cognitive coherence; interaction between textual and visual codes in electronic media; cognitive processes and hypertext affordances.
In particular, she has been working on the problem of coherence in interactve textual and visual discourse and her main contribution to the research area is the investigation of Cinematic Hypertext as a paradigm for framing the medium and its characteristics. Her work gathers ideas from technology, psycholinguistics, visual design, narratology and film theory, and identifies design principles and guidelines for the development of experimental systems.
Clara graduated in Letters of Arts at Pisa University, studying literature, arts critics and aesthetics, semiotics and cinematic theory. She was awarded the Euro Multimedia Master by the Italian Association of Cinematic Industry and a specialization in Educational Communication by Padova University. She worked in Italy as hypertext designer for the National Centre of Conservation and Study of Scientific Instruments and for Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, before moving to England, where she obtained a Ph.D. in Knowledge Media at the Knowledge Media Instiute.
Publications by Clara Mancini (bibliography)
» 2006 «
Mancini, Clara and Shum, Simon Buckingham (2006): Modelling discourse in contested domains: A semiotic and cognitive framework. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64 (11) pp. 1154-1171
» 2004 «
Mancini, Clara and Shum, Simon Buckingham (2004): Towards 'cinematic' hypertext. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext 2004. pp. 215-224. Available online
» 2001 «
Mancini, Clara and Buckingham, Simon Shum (2001): Cognitive coherence relations and hypertext: from cinematic patterns to scholarly discourse. In: Hypertext'01 - Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia August 14-18, 2001, Aarhus, Denmark. pp. 165-174. Available online
» 2000 «
Mancini, Clara (2000): From Cinematographic to Hypertext Narrative. In: Hypertext 00 - Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia May 30 - June 03, 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. pp. 236-237. Available online
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Publication statistics
Publication period:2000-2006
Publication count:4
Number of co-authors:4
Productive colleagues
Clara Mancini's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:
Simon Buckingham Shum:18Simon Shum Buckingham:1
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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:
Simon Buckingham Shum:2Simon Shum Buckingham:1
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