Special Issue on Advanced Interfaces for Cultural Heritage

Description and scope:

The rapid development of information and communication technologies, the
Internet, and recently also of Internet of Things (IoT), has enabled
cultural heritage (CH) institutions to provide enhanced access to their
collections, whether online or onsite in order to enhance the visitor's'
experience and attract wider audiences in various ways. Novel interfaces
such as three dimensional (3D) interfaces, virtual reality (VR) and
augmented reality (AR), provide new means for the dissemination of CH
information. They allow for the general public to engage in immersive
experiences in virtual reconstructed locations, such as ancient towns, and
to visit existent but remotely located locations, such as worldwide cultural
institutions and museums (such as in the Google Art Project). For
preservation purposes, 3D scanning and visualization technologies provide
scholars and cultural heritage professionals with a way to consult and
maintain visual repositories of real exhibits, with the possibility of
visualizing, comparing and studying 3D digital equivalents of real artworks
physically situated in different locations.

Within museums and cultural heritage sites, advanced interfaces allow new
ways of interacting with artefacts, receiving personalized information and
experiencing the museum.  Novel interfaces, whether they are mobile devices,
wearables such as Smartwatches or smart glasses, or large wall-mounted
displays, need to be carefully designed to fit within the complex
environment of the museum. This can be done as part of the cultural heritage
IoT, or as part of a ubiquitous CH context-aware infrastructure, where
information can be personalized and displayed on screens or overlaid on real
objects, with the ultimate goal of enabling improved access and a better
overall museum experience for visitors.

This special issue invites submission presenting original research that
explores the potential of the state of the art in advanced interfaces to
enhance our daily cultural heritage experiences both within and outside CH
sites. We encourage submissions that include but are not limited to the
following topics in relation to Cultural Heritage:

Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces

Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism

Multimodal Interfaces

Natural User Interfaces

Gesture and/or speech interaction

(Multi) Sensory Interfaces

Virtual and Augmented Reality

3D scanning and 3D access to cultural exhibits

Internet of Things (IoT) and cultural Heritage

Navigation in digital and physical cultural heritage collections

Mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants

Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in the museum

Submission instructions

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the
Instructions for authors for the International journal of Human-Computer
Studies (
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-stu
dies/1071-5819/guide-for-authors.). The complete manuscript should be
submitted through the submission system. Please make sure that you select
"SI:Advanced UI for CH" when you reach the "Article Type" step in the
submission process. 

Important dates

Submission deadline: March 1st, 2017

First round of notifications: June 10th 2017

Revised papers due: August 10th, 2017

Acceptance deadline: October 10th, 2017

Expected publication date: December 1st, 2017

Guest editors

Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, The University of Bari

Cristina Gena, University of Torino

Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa

Joel Lanir, University of Haifa

For inquiries regarding the special issue, please email Joel Lanir
ylanir@is.haifa.ac.il.

Tsvika

Tsvi Kuflik, PhD.

  Associate Professor

  The University of Haifa

  Email:  <mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il> tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il

  Home page:  <https://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/tsvikak>
https://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/tsvikak

  Tel: +972 4 8288511

  Fax: +972 4 8288283

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