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Special Issue
Extended Intelligence for Cultural Engagement
Deadline 15th September 2023
Scope and Context
In recent years new forms of citizen participation in cultural
heritage have
emerged, producing a wealth of material relevant to curatorial
practices,
spanning from visitors’ experiential feedback to exhibitions and
cultural
artifacts, to digitally mediated forms of interaction, e.g. on
social media.
However, there are open questions on how digital innovation can
influence
and support new ways of engaging with cultural heritage. These
include,
among others, how to engage audiences that are not the common
“museum goers”
including teenagers and young adults as well as minority groups,
how to
encourage interaction and share opinions between different groups,
and how
to promote the acceptance of diverse opinions. Innovations include
new ways
for interacting with the digital world (virtual and augmented
reality),
paired with new powerful computing methods provided by either
neural or
symbolic artificial intelligence for.
How should we interact with cultural heritage? Citizen curation is
proposed
in the context of the European project SPICE - Social
Participation,
Cohesion, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement
(
https://spice-h2020.eu/) - as a methodology for eliciting,
producing,
collecting, interpreting, and archiving people’s responses to
cultural
objects. This “participatory” approach deals with the reappraisal
of
expertise in cultural heritage, with the museum curator no longer
being a
lone expert, thus requiring methods and technologies that are
accessible to
different types of people with various skill levels, and differing
goals and
motives. The outcomes of citizen curation can complement
traditional
expertise by following an Open Work perspective and favor the
emergence of
multiple, sometimes conflicting viewpoints that motivate users and
memory
institutions to reflect upon them. Citizen curation imagines a
bazaar of
solutions and providers that work together in an open-ended,
distributed
digital ecosystem for cultural engagement, going beyond the
limitations of
current frameworks and platforms for the management of cultural
data.
This Special Issue will appeal to academics and museum
professionals working
in disciplines involving the application of novel ICT to cultural
heritage,
museums data management infrastructures, arts professionals and
scholars
interested in digitally-mediated cultural engagement and its
impact upon
curation, teaching and learning, and social cohesion and
inclusion.
Submissions can include both theoretical and practical approaches
and case
studies, focusing on innovative research and applications of
state-of-the-art technologies. We welcome submissions from
practitioners in
the industry and early career researchers.
Topics
Topics and issues to be addressed include but are not limited to:
* Digitally mediated Citizen Curation
* Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Engagement
* Augmented Reality for Cultural Engagement
* Virtual Reality for Cultural Engagement
* Data Infrastructures for Citizen Curation and Cultural
Engagement
* AI-driven HCI for Cultural Engagement
* Embodied Cognition in Cultural Engagement
* Recommender systems for Cultural Engagement
* Digital Technologies and inclusion in cultural heritage
* Supporting groups in Cultural Heritage sites
* Inclusion and diversity in cultural heritage
* Detecting and measuring Cultural Engagement
Editors
Enrico Daga, The Open University
enrico.daga@open.ac.uk <mailto:enrico.daga@open.ac.uk>
http://www.enridaga.net
Rossana Damiano
rossana.damiano@unito.it <mailto:rossana.damiano@unito.it>
http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana
Lily Díaz-Kommonen
lily.diaz@aalto.fi <mailto:lily.diaz@aalto.fi>
https://sysrep.aalto.fi
Tsvi Kuflik
tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il <mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il>
https://tsvikak.hevra.haifa.ac.il
Manuel Striani
manuel.striani@unito.it <mailto:manuel.striani@unito.it>
https://www.unito.it/persone/mstriani
Important Dates
* Paper Submission September 15th 2023
* First Decision: December 15th 2023
* Revision: March 1st 2024
* 2nd Revision: July 1st 2024
* Final manuscript: September 1st 2024
* Publication: December 2024
Tsvika
Tsvi Kuflik, PhD.
Professor of Information Systems,
Information Systems department,
The University of Haifa
Email:
tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il
Home page:
https://tsvikak.hevra.haifa.ac.il
Tel: +972 4 8288511
Fax: +972 4 8288283
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