We have had the most amazing year, filled with inspiration and many fascinating stories to share. The second year of EMOTIVE project was truly amazing, and very busy – what you can see through a growing number of publications and events that EMOTIVE project has participated in last year, from Brussels, Tübingen, Rome, Athens, Karlsruhe to […]
We are delighted to announce that EMOTIVE paper has been accepted to the prestigious CHI 2019 conference in Glasgow, UK. The title of the paper is Transformation through Provocation? Designing a “Bot of Conviction” to Challenge Conceptions and Evoke Critical Reflection and the authors are Roussou, M., Perry, S., Katifori, A., Vassos, S., Tzouganatou, A., & McKinney, S.The ACM CHI Conference on […]
On 15-16 November 2018 EMOTIVE joined over 40 exhibitors in Brussels at the Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage, a key event of 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage. The event sought to highlight innovation and bring together innovators from across the cultural heritage innovation ecosystem. Participants engaged in presentations, talks and social gatherings […]
As part of the continuing development of the visitor experience at the site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey, a combined team of researchers from EMOTIVE, based at the University of York (UK), ATHENA (Greece), and INRIA (France), have traveled together to Turkey this autumn. The goal has been to capture new digital images of the excavation […]
Our partner Paolo Cignoni from ISTI-CNR and his team (Thomas Alderighi, Luigi Malomo, Daniela Giorgi, Nico Pietroni, Bernd Bickel) presented a technical paper at the SIGGRAPH Conference 2018 in Vancouver, Canada on 12 August 2018. The paper ‘MetaMolds: Computational Design of Silicone Molds’ introduces an innovative, silicone casting procedure for creating physical copies of complex […]
On Monday the 14th of May 2018, the EMOTIVE team had the chance to organize and co-host with the CrossCult project an exciting event that brought together representatives of most of the current cultural heritage EU funded projects. The event was structured in three main sessions, attempting to approach cultural heritage research and innovation through […]
Call for Papers Emotions in Digital Cultural Heritage: How do we design and evaluate emotionally engaging applications and tools? A Special Session of DigitalHERITAGE 2018 3rd International Congress & Expo 26-30 October 2018, San Francisco, USA https://www.digitalheritage2018.org/ Organised by the EMOTIVE EU project https://emotiveproject.eu/ Chairs: Maria Economou (University of Glasgow, UK) & Maria Roussou (University of Athens […]
Congratulations to George Drettakis, Inria research director at the Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée centre and head of the Graphdeco project-team, specialist in Computer Graphics, who received the European Research Council (ERC) grant in the Advanced category for the FUNGRAPH proposal “A New Foundation for Computer Graphics with Inherent Uncertainty”. ERC Advanced Grants are awarded under […]
EMOTIVE@ATHENA participates in the International Museum Day 2018 celebrationsThe ATHENA Research Center’s EMOTIVE team participated actively in the celebrations of the International Museum Day 2018 on May 18, 2018. This year’s theme was “Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics”. More than 36,000 museums worldwide participate in the celebrations each year.This year was particularly noteworthy for […]
EMOTIVE Ph.D. student Julien Philip from Inria presented a paper ‘Plane-Based Multi-View Inpainting for Image-Based Rendering in Large Scenes’ at the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 17 May 2018. This is the leading conference for real time 3D computer graphics and human interaction. The paper […]