Programme
Last update: 24 May 2021
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Wednesday, 02 June, 2021
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
IDALION ROOM
Opening / Welcome
Opening: Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Research Director, CYENS
Welcome: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Maria Shehade, RISE IMET Chairs
IDALION ROOM
Keynote Speech: Computational museology: ‘whole of environment’ encoding
Sarah Kenderdine
BREAK
12:00 – 13:30
IDALION ROOM
Participatory Approaches, Crowdsourcing and New Technologies
Chair: Angeliki Chrysanthi
12:00
Participation in cultural heritage hackathons: ‘carsharing’ between ‘meaningful nonsense’ and ‘unromantic’
networking
Franziska Mucha
12:15
The shaping of memory and identity through digitised photographs of institutional repositories
Myrto Theocharidou
12:30
The Fragility of Museum Social Media Practices
Cassandra Kist
12:45
Storybase: towards Cultural Transformation Driven by Design
Violeta Tsenova
13:00
Q&A
AMATHUS ROOM
Emerging Technologies and Visitor Engagement in Museums and Heritage Sites
Chair: Giorgos Papaioannou
12:00
On digital interactions and visitor engagement
Giasemi Vavoula
12:15
Trails of Walking- Ways of Talking: The Museum Experience Through Social Meaning Mapping
Dimitra Christidou,Luise Reitstätter
12:30
Adoption and Impact of Digital Ecomuseum in Cities: Insights from the Pros-Eleusis evaluation activities
Yannis Pappas,Leonidas Argyros,Despoina Tsiafaki,Maria Boile,Panagiotis Gkiokas,Natasa Michailidou,Vassilis Kourtis,Akrivi Katifori
12:45
Why is this exhibit digital? – dimensions of digital exhibits in the museum space
Pille Runnel, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt,Krista Lepik
13:00
Q&A
13:30 – 14:30
LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 15:30
IDALION ROOM
Keynote Speech: The collection is dead; long live the collective
Nancy Proctor
15:30 – 16:00
BREAK
16:00 – 17:30
IDALION ROOM
Digital Storytelling for Cultural Heritage Interpretation
Chair:Katherine Burton Jones
16:00
Place-based Digital Storytelling. The interplay between narrative forms and the cultural heritage space
Angeliki Chrysanthi, Akrivi Katifori, Maria Vayanou, Angeliki Antoniou
16:15
REVAthens: Bringing Athens of the Revolution to life through museum theatre methodology and digital
gamification techniques
Yannis Stoyannidis, Andromache Gazi, Ilias Marmaras, Foteini Venieri,Thodoris Giannakis, Yannis Scoulidas, Stewart Ziff
16:30
Bridging Past and Present: A Case Study of Creating and Deploying a Historical Character to Engage
Audiences through AR and VR
Juilee Decker, Amanda Doherty, Joe Geigel, Gary Jacobs
16:45
The (too) Reliable Narrator. Studying the impact of AI on visitors’ narratives
Valentina Vavassori
17:00
Q&A
AMATHUS ROOM
Mobile Applications and Gamification for Cultural Heritage
Chair: Panagiotis Charalambous
16:00
Interdisciplinary design of an educational applications development platform in a 3D environment focused on
cultural heritage tourism
Konstantinos Kotsopoulos, Julia-Anna Sharamyeva, Stavros Vlizos
16:15
Que.St: game design strategies as a tool for promoting cultural heritage of Saint – Petersburg
Lada Maksimova, Antonina Puchkovskaya
16:30
Emerging technologies for learning at a cultural heritage site: The design of the CompARe mixed reality
gamified learning environment
Eleni Kyza, Markos Souropetsis
16:45
Q&A
Thursday, 03 June, 2021
10:30 – 11:30
IDALION ROOM
Keynote Speech: Being Ethical in Digital Cultural Heritage Practice
Jenny Kidd
11:30 – 12:00
BREAK
12:00 – 13:30
IDALION ROOM
Galleries, New Technologies and Art
Chair: Alexandra Bounia
12:00
Curating networked objects: the mediation of contemporary art digitizations online
Stephanie Bertrand
12:15
Virtual Art Viewing for Education and Learning (VAVEL): A tool for automatic Virtual Art Space creation for
students and artists
Joshua Siegel, Vicky Karaiskou, Georgios Pappas
12:30
Artwork Recognition Using Wearable Cameras: Methodologies, Challenges and Potential Uses
Zenonas Theodosiou, Harris Partaourides, Andreas Lanitis
12:45
Emerging technologies beyond museums
Vicki Triantafylloudi, Trilce Navarrete Hernandez
13:00
Q&A
AMATHUS ROOM
Digital Curation and Immersion in Museums
Chair: Maria Shehade
12:00
An Ontological Model for Digital Curation: Materiality, Aura & Virtuality
Stella Sofokleous
12:15
Mapping sonic practices in museum exhibitions – An overview
Foteini Salmouka, Andromache Gazi
12:30
Generating “cultural heritage”: multimedia displays and immersive experience in the early 20th and 21st
centuries. Berlin’s Pergamon Museum and Panorama exhibition
Annette Loeseke
12:45
Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Emerging Technologies for Museums and Heritage Institutions:
Institutional and Organisational Learning
Areti Damala, Merel van der Vaart, Dick van Dijk, Pam de Sterke
13:00
Q&A
13:30 – 14:30
LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 15:30
IDALION ROOM
Keynote Speech: Realistic Humans in Virtual Cultural Heritage
Alan Chalmers
15:30 – 16:00
BREAK
16:00 – 17:30
IDALION ROOM
Mixed Reality in Museums and Heritage Sites
Chair: Paul Marty
16:00
Cultural Heritage Documentation: the case study of the Ottoman Bath in Apollonia, Greece
Stella Sylaiou, Paschalis Androudis, Maria Tsiapali, Nikos Trivizadakis, Dimitrios Ramnalis, Vassilios Polychronos, Vassilios Efopoulos, Konstantinos Evangelidis
16:15
Visiting a Virtual Acropolis on the Immersive Web
Gunnar Liestol, Jay Bolter, Maria Engberg, Colin Freeman, Blair MacIntyre
16:30
Augmented Reality for urban cultural heritage experiences: Lessons of a partly failed application
Maria Engberg
16:45
XR checklist – what to consider when extending heritage
Roberta Bertini Viégas
17:00
Q&A
AMATHUS ROOM
Emerging Technologies, Difficult Heritage and Affective Practices
Chair: Hannah Turner
16:00
Emerging Technologies and the Advent of the Holocaust “Hologram”
Cayo Gamber
16:15
The Atlas of Lost Rooms: Digitally Reconstructing Dark Heritage Sites in Ireland
Chris Hamill
16:30
Tangible and Embodied Interaction for Scaffolding Difficult Heritage Narratives
Areti Damala
16:45
Dimensions in Testimony: Affect, Holograms and New Curatorial Challenges
Elena Stylianou
17:00
Q&A
Friday, 04 June, 2021
10:30 – 11:30
IDALION ROOM
Keynote Speech: Mixing visual media for Cultural Heritage
Roberto Scopigno
11:30 – 12:00
BREAK
12:00 – 13:30
IDALION ROOM
Explorations on Digital Ethics, Inclusiveness and Authenticity
Chair: Antigone Heraclidou
12:00
Interactions for everybody!? On creating inclusive technologies and the generative potential of disability
Nicole Schimkus
12:15
Towards museum digital ethics: introducing, addressing, defining and measuring the Museum Digital
Atmosphere
Sofia Paschou, Georgios Papaioannou
12:30
Ethical Considerations and Methods for Diversifying Representations of Cultural Heritage: A Case Example
of the Swayambhu UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal
Bhikshuni Lozang Trinlae
12:45
Development of Design Protocols in the Use of Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage Representation
Gamaliel Domingo
13:00
Q&A
AMATHUS ROOM
Digital Heritage and Virtual Museums: New Approaches and Challenges
Chair: Doros Polydorou
12:00
Fusing Virtual Reality, Robots and Social Networking Technologies to Build the Virtual Museum of the Future:
Towards a New Type of Community Based Cyber-Physical-Social Eco-System
Lyuba Alboul, Louis Nisiotis, Martin Beer
12:15
Virtual Dance Museums: the case of Cypriot folk dancing
Andreas Aristidou, Anastasions Yiannakidis, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
12:30
An exploration on the quality of Cultural Heritage Communication in Digital Environments
Srushti Goud, Vincenzo Lombardo
12:45
Machine Learning and Museum Collections: A Data Conundrum
Lukas Noehrer, Jonathan Carlton, Caroline Jay
13:00
Q&A
13:30 – 14:30
LUNCH BREAK
IDALION ROOM
Digitization, Documentation and Digital Representation of Cultural Heritage
Chair: Andreas Lanitis
14:30
Pioneering advanced recording technologies for post-earthquake-damage assessment and re-construction in
Chilean heritage areas
Bernadette Devilat,
14:45
Formalization of the “Immaterial Features” Conveyed by the Iconographic Cultural Heritage Entities
Gian Piero Zarri
15:00
On the new application of the photogrammetric method for the task of digitizing an object wave of a display
full-color hologram
Anastasia Timoshenkova, Nikolay Balbekin, Tatyana Shlykova, Nickolay Petrov, Ekaterina Rabosh
15:15
Q&A
AMATHUS ROOM
14:30 – 16:00
Workshop
Revisiting what is on offer: nourishing blended inquiry learning in the galleries and beyond
Stamatina Anastopoulou, Giasemi Vavoula, Torhild Skåtun
16:00 – 16:30
BREAK
16:30 – 17:00
IDALION ROOM
Closing Remarks
Chair: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
Participants
Alan Chalmers
Sarah Kenderdine
Nancy Proctor
Roberto Scopigno