Alexandra Covaci

Dr. Alexandra Covaci is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts and Technology at the University of Kent, where she also serves as Deputy Head of School. Her office is located in the Jennison Building on the Canterbury campus. She teaches the undergraduate module Introduction to Virtual Reality (EL681), focusing on VR principles and hands-on development using mobile/desktop headsets.

Her research intersects virtual reality, multisensory media, human-computer interaction, and psychology. Key interests include:

• Leveraging VR for transformative applications (e.g., skills training for cognitive disabilities)
• Designing systematic multisensory experiences (visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory)
• Perceptual media quality and collaborative VR environments for data visualization

Her publications (2019–2025) reveal strong emphases on:

• Healthcare VR: Dementia care, wheelchair training, and autism support
• Multisensory QoE: Cross-modal perception, olfactory/haptic feedback, and AV synchronization
• Imaging & Interaction: Light-field reconstruction, passive haptics, and conversational agents

She actively supervises students in VR social scenarios, AR interaction, and complex data visualization. No awards or grants are mentioned in the source material.