Conferences for 2017-2018

*START*	DUE	CONFERENCE	THEME	LOCATION
22-Oct-17	12-Jul-17	UIST	ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology-posters	Quebec City, Canada
31-Oct-17	15-Jun-17	VSMM2017	23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia	Dublin Ireland
08-Nov-17	?	Chacmool	The Future of Archaeology: How Technology Can Influence a Discipline	Calgary Canada
08-Nov-17	30-Jun-17	VRST	Virtual Reality Software and Technology	Gothenburg Sweden
28-Nov-17	16-Jun-17	ozchi17	OzCHI 2017 – Human-Nature	Brisbane Australia
01-Dec-17	21-Jul-17	DCH2017	Digital Cultural Heritage	Manchester UK
04-Dec-17	31-Jul-17	dha	4th Digital Humanities: Data First!	Innsbruck Austria
05-Dec-17	10-Jul-17	GALA 2017	Games and Learning Alliance conference	Lisbon Portugal
07-Dec-17	01-Jun-17	Postcolonial	Post colonial memory	Amsterdam Netherlands
18-Dec-17	25-Aug-17	TAG UK	Theorectical Archaeology Group	Cardiff Wales
17-Mar-18	29-Sep-17	CRDH	Current Research in Digital History	Arlington, VA
19-Mar-18	?	CAA2018	Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology	Tübingen, Germany
21-Apr-18	12-Sep-17	CHI2018	Computer Human Interaction	Montreal, Canada
24-Apr-18	?	CAA2019	Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology	Kraków, Poland
02-May-18	?	Best Practices	Best Practices in World Heritage: Archeology	Menorca Spain
09-Jun-18	?	DIS	Designing Interactive Systems	Hong Kong
19-Jun-18	?	IDC2018	ACM Interaction Design and Children	Trondheim, Norway
24-Jun-18	?	DH2018	Digital Humanities 2018	Mexico City, Mexico
12-Aug-18	?	SIGGRAPH18	SIGGRAPH	Vancouver Canada
01-Sep-18	31-Mar-17	2018achs	Heritage Across Borders (sessions)	Hangzhou China
19-Sep-18	01-Feb-18	eCAADe2018	computing for a better tomorrow	Lodz Poland
14-Oct-18	?	?	ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology	Berlin Germany
START	*DUE*	CONFERENCE	THEME	LOCATION
08-Nov-17	30-Jun-17	VRST	Virtual Reality Software and Technology	Gothenburg Sweden
05-Dec-17	10-Jul-17	GALA 2017	Games and Learning Alliance conference	Lisbon Portugal
22-Oct-17	12-Jul-17	UIST	ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology-posters	Quebec City, Canada
01-Dec-17	21-Jul-17	DCH2017	Digital Cultural Heritage	Manchester UK
04-Dec-17	31-Jul-17	dha	4th Digital Humanities: Data First!	Innsbruck Austria
18-Dec-17	25-Aug-17	TAG UK	Theorectical Archaeology Group	Cardiff Wales
21-Apr-18	12-Sep-17	CHI2018	Computer Human Interaction	Montreal, Canada
17-Mar-18	29-Sep-17	CRDH	Current Research in Digital History	Arlington, VA
19-Sep-18	01-Feb-18	eCAADe2018	computing for a better tomorrow	Lodz Poland

3D Digital Heritage: Exploring Virtual Research Space for Art History, Berlin

This week on Monday and Tuesday (19-20 June 2017) ran the 3D Digital Heritage Exploring Virtual Research Space for Art History conference at Humboldt University.

new project 2: 3D and GIS

The following was a successful grant, funded by the Curtin Institute of Computation.

Title: Leveraging Low-Cost and Free Linked Open Data and Hybrid GIS/3D For Cultural Heritage Visualisation (6 months)

The program/research plan:

The two ECRs with the help of the two Curtin Professors will investigate the use of an application, possibly the Pelagios Framework (http://commons.pelagios.org/), an online portal that can combine maps, charts, documents, pictures and dynamic data, to create interactive visualisations and predictive cartographic analysis tools.

Figure 1: Pelagios

This pilot study will explore whether the application can accept, display and dynamically link to 3D models and their subcomponents, using GIS Data so that maps and 3D models can be displayed and interacted with online. This specific application theoretically accepts simple 3D stl models but three.js and web3D models have not been investigated. Existing related examples: see http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/arc/mayagis.html

The two ECRS will derive a 3D model with GIS related data and design an online Pelagios Commons framework (or similar) for viewing a 3D model of a heritage site, preferably in Australia, that controls place elements in a side-located text document or an online map or chart and vice versa.

http://pleiades.stoa.org/ shows some of the possibilities of Linked Open Data, but not how 3D can interact with a LOD GIS platform.

Proposed engagement of external and community groups

1. Firstly, we will collaborate with the following non-CIC staff at Curtin to develop the Curtin University workshop.
2. Secondly we will invite members to test the prototype and provide feedback and potentially collaboration and grant opportunities.
3. We will test the prototype with archaeologists, heritage specialists or architects in another Australian city. The longer-term aim is to engage them in applying for a linkage to design a more permanent and larger collection and online portal for a more highly featured, user-friendly and robust design.

For an interesting potentially related interface please see http://www.impa.br/opencms/en/

new project 1: HMD Augmented Reality Heritage Trail study

The following was a successful grant, funded by the Curtin Institute of Computation.

The program/research plan:

In 2016 the Chief Investigator (CI) organized a one day talk and workshop on cultural heritage visualization, (“GLAM-VR”, Curtin HIVE, http://slides.com/erikchampion/glamvr16-26-08-2016 ) and helped facilitate a related makerspace event (“Cultural Makathon at Curtin Library Makerspace”, URL: http://slides.com/erikchampion/deck-4#/fullscreen#/ ). All groups of students finished their projects apart from one single individual group encountering trouble designing inside a 3D game engine. For the Augmented Reality 2016 makerspace tutorials, there was similar difficulty in finding suitable tutorial material. Unfortunately, there are few tutorials and examples for augmented reality and 3D game engines for hackathon or makathon events. There is even less material for cultural heritage augmented reality tours. And there is no academic feature list survey and comparison of recent augmented reality headsets for cultural heritage tours, where one walks along a heritage trail using the augmented reality headset (HMD) for augmented information.

This 2017 pilot study will aim to resolve this issue by providing an exemplar, online resources, a white paper and

1. The two ECRS will develop a simple digital 3D environment prototype which reveals cultural heritage assets, artefacts and landmarks when viewed inside a portable head-mounted display (HMD) or augmented reality HMD.
2. We will compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of the above HMDs, run an evaluation on test subjects of preferred display, time required to navigate and to wayfind, and record participants’ task performance and memory recall.
3. We will create a white paper for this, including suggested workflows and appropriate tools.
4. From the above findings we will provide an online available training course for developing Augmented Reality cultural heritage tours for head Mounted Displays.
5. There will be a pilot workshop at CURTIN LIBRARY MAKERSPACE

#HeritageEveryware Scanning the digital heritage horizon at Glasgow School Of Art

Dialling The Past

It sounds paradoxical but one of the world’s leading hubs of digital heritage learning, research and innovation is based in an art school, and it had to be in Glasgow…

A fusion of cultural heritage and technological expertise, history and data, human stories and computational power, it’s the “idea of dueling polarities within one entity” made concrete (and virtual) in an unexpected setting.

Whether its staff and students would agree with or dismiss the idea of the ‘Caledonian antisyzgy‘ is moot, but I can’t resist seeing a correlation between this new formation and that reading of the Scots cultural psyche coined by G. Gregory Smith in 1919…

“That it is defined by duality. Passionate heart versus rational head, Highlands and Lowlands, Scottish and British identity, Scots and English language, realism and fantasy.” [ref]

Debatably then, this brief dérive into Scottish literary history goes some way to…

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CFP: VSMM2017, Dublin, extended deadline

VSMM2017 – Deadline postponed!
Abstracts and workshop proposals deadline for the 23rd International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2017), has been postponed from June 2nd to June 15th 2017.
The conference will be held October 30th – November 2nd 2017 in Ireland at University College Dublin, with Special Workshops and Cultural Tours on November 3rd – 5th in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Thur 15 Jun 2017 – Deadline for Abstracts/Workshop Proposals
Fri 28 Jul 2017 – Notification of Acceptance to Authors/Presenters
Fri 1 Sep 2017 – Registration Opens
Mon 15 Sep 2017 – Camera-ready Papers Due
Fri 13 Oct 2017 – Registration Closes
Tue 31 Oct – Thur 2 Nov – VSMM2017 Conference in Dublin
Fri 3 Nov – Sun 5 Nov – VSMM2017 Workshops & Cultural Tours in Belfast

Website: http://vsmm.org/vsmm2017/

3D Digital Heritage, Berlin program

I am speaking at 3D Heritage Exploring Virtual Research Space for Art, 19 -20 June 2017, Berlin. Program here

Address:Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt Graduate School,Luisenstr 56, 10117, Berlin

A Scholarly Ecosystem for 3D Digital Heritage Simulations
Erik Champion

Major impediments to the development of high quality and effective virtual heritage projects has been technological constraints or insufficient audience evaluation methods. That said, this talk proposes that a more fundamental issue has been with the design, circulation and use of the digital models themselves as components of scholarly arguments or as vehicles to communicate hypotheses to the wider public.

In Australia, we have proposed to UNESCO that we run a project to survey, collate and develop tools for heritage sites and related built environments, focusing initially on Australia. The aim is to consolidate and disseminate 3D models and virtual environments of world heritage sites, host virtual heritage examples, tutorials, tools and technologies so heritage groups and classrooms could learn to develop and maintain 3D models and virtual environments, and act as advisor on policy formulation for the use, evaluation and application of these 3D digital environments and digital models for use in the classroom and for general visualisation projects.

The resulting UNESCO Chair project will implement and advise on 3D models of World Heritage Sites, how 3D models can be employed in teaching and research, investigate ways to host both the digital models and related paradata and publications, and transfer formats (for desktop use, mobile computing etc.), ideally with UNESCO, and we will leverage research facilities at Curtin and at partner institutes and research facilities like the HIVE (Figure 1).

The primary goal is to help educate the public in the area of world heritage sites via interactive collaborative digital media, with an emphasis on free and open source software, and a secondary goal is to examine virtual heritage and related digital simulations as components of scholarly arguments. The UNESCO Chair’s project team will also critique, integrate and extend existing and new infrastructure to support this learning material and the overall integration of scholarly publications, publicly available media and online directories and repositories of digital 3D simulations of world heritage sites and related artefacts as a scholarly ecosystem.