On 26 November 2016, the members from all eight partner institutions and companies gathered at the offices of the Athena Research Institute to meet, greet and plan the work ahead. A year later, this time in Ireland, the team met again to follow up on project work to date and plan for the review of its first year in action. The 2017 gathering took place on 2-3 November in Dublin, where one of our partners, Noho, is based. The meeting took place in the Science Gallery in the city’s famous university, Trinity College.
DAY 1
Our first day began with a warm welcome from Noho, after which it was straight down to business. EXUS began with a review of project progress, summarising the achievements in year one and discussing overall workflow to date. We then moved on to WP2 and topics such as dissemination, communication and exploitation. This included a follow-up on the EMOTIVE Communications activities outlined in one of the public deliverables from earlier this year: D2.2 Communication material cycle #1.
After a break we began discussions on the preparatory work for the project’s annual review in early 2018. The last topic of the day was an update on the Çatalhöyük chatbot, ChatҪat, from the University of York. An online chatbot experience for Çatalhöyük, the chatbot was first trialled in June/July this year using Facebook Messenger. It is now being elaborated and further evaluated, and our preliminary results will be presented at the Computing Applications in Archaeology conference in March in Tübingen, Germany. In the meantime, you can find out about more about the EMOTIVE application of this type of experience in our public deliverable D5.1 Conceptual Framework & Guide.
In the evening of the first day, team members visited the Noho office for a drink before dinner. Some recent projects were set up for VR fun and play. As you can see from the pictures below, there was an abundance of screens, headsets & laughter!
DAY 2
Day 2 was largely dedicated to discussion of pilot experience prototypes with a focus on the onsite experience at the Hunterian and three different types of experiences at Çatalhöyük: onsite, co-located and virtual. There will be a new deliverable published on this topic in the next month or two – keep an eye on social media or our Publications & Deliverables to find out more!
VSMM2017
Despite our busy agenda, several members of the EMOTIVE team managed to attend and present papers at the VSMM Conference 2017 during their visit.
The International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia is a unique cross-disciplinary organization for the exchange of cutting edge research in new media and virtual and augmented reality applied to everything from art to architecture, medicine to engineering, and archaeology to cultural heritage.
Below you will find the details of the three papers. Keep an eye on our Publications & Deliverables page, where we will add the papers once they are published.
Diakoumakos, I. P., Katifori, A., Kourtis, V., Karvounis, M., & Ioannidis, Y. (2017). Demonstrating the use of the alphabetic telegraph through a collaborative AR activity. In Proceedings of 23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia -VSMM 2017 (forthcoming). Dublin, Ireland: IEEE.
Lambrakopoulos, G., Begetis, N., Katifori, A., Karvounis, M., & Ioannidis, Y. (2017). Experimental evaluation of the impact of virtual reality on the sentiment of fear. In Proceedings of 23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia -VSMM 2017 (forthcoming). Dublin, Ireland: IEEE.
Perry, S., Roussou, M., Economou, M., Young, H., & Pujol, L. (2017). Moving Beyond the Virtual Museum: Engaging Visitors Emotionally. In Proceedings of 23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia -VSMM 2017 (forthcoming). Dublin, Ireland: IEEE.
