The EMOTIVE project’s final public demo event took place on 30th October 2019, at the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow. It was a great day for the EMOTIVE team to get together once again as well as the public to finally be able to get a taste of the EMOTIVE tools and experiences. […]
EMOTIVE project’s final public demo event will take place on 30th October 2019, at the Hunterian Museum, Main Campus building of the University of Glasgow.EMOTIVE is a European Union-funded Horizon 2020 project which seeks to develop emotionally-resonant digital experiences for visitors at cultural heritage sites, with a particular focus on the unique – but curatorially […]
‘Ebutius’s Dilemma’ is a digital storytelling experience developed for the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow. It tells the story of a Roman centurion who left his mark on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. The Antonine Wall was the Roman Empire’s most northerly frontier and is today part of a Unesco World Heritage Site. The Hunterian […]
On May 21-22, members from four EMOTIVE partner institutions and companies gathered at the offices of the DIGINEXT in Toulouse in order to test and evaluate the new version of the Visual Scenario Editor, a tool for creating experiences for cultural and creative industries.The Visual Scenario Editor (VSE) developed by DIGINEXT, extends these experiences by […]
Why EMOTIVE? My insider experiences as a visiting scholar at the University of GlasgowMuseum literature taught me that “memorable experiences have an emotional label”; so, “what is emotionally experienced, will be remembered” (Falk & Dierking, 2013). Learning literature, on the other hand, made me realize that there are more layers between “knowing” and “applying” something; […]
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 […]
European Researchers’ Night, or Explorathon as it is known across Scotland, has become an established event in researchers’ public engagement calendar going from strength to strength across Europe since 2005 when it started, and since 2014 in Scotland. It is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions programme and it is an […]
Working with the EMOTIVE Hunterian Museum’s Personas IMAGE 1: Group at 1st EMOTIVE User Workshop (Glasgow University, Hunterian Museum, February 2017) discussing the Hunterian personas We thought it would be timely to introduce the personas we have also developed for the Hunterian museum and the Antonine Wall display and how we used them at […]
Blog post by Sophia Mirashrafi, Katrina Gargett and Sara Perry (University of York) The concept of the ‘persona’ is something which has been utilised in management, advertising and the technology industry since the term was first coined by Alan Cooper nearly twenty years ago (see Cooper, 1998). Used to aid in product design and the […]
On February 22-23rd, amid the august surroundings of the University of Glasgow, Emotive held its first User Workshop. The event brought together a small group of cultural and creative experts for two days of intensive, hands-on prototyping and preliminary evaluation work. Leading international specialists in user design, gaming, curation, digital engagement and interpretation listened, discussed, […]