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