-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] ACM JOCCH Special Issue on Extended Intelligence for Cultural Engagement Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:45:49 +0300 From: Tsvi Kuflik tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org

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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