Workshop – Re-Contextualizing Built Environments: Critical & Inclusive HCI Approaches for Cultural Heritage

Session I

09:30 – 09:45 Welcoming & Introduction
09:45 – 10:15 Inspirational Talk & Discussion
10:15 – 10:30 Presentation I: Melanie Sarantou, Amna Qureshi, Sherrie Jones and Serena Gunter – “I will now be more aware”: The Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Indigenous Artmaking in Living Cultural Heritage
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Presentation II: Yifan Kong and Irene Gammel – Rediscovering West Chinatown: Immersive Game Design Revives Toronto’s Chinese Cultural Heritage
Presentation III: Clare Cooper, Michael Mossman and Elle Davidson – Indigenous-led Yarning Circles using live Miro boards: Encouraging critical and inclusive discourse on cultural heritage
11:15 – 12:15 Interactive Session
12:15 – 12:30 Wrap up

Longer lunch break, including a task to look for pictures of meaningful shared places (personally, socially, culturally) for recontextualization.

Session II

15:30 – 15:40 Welcoming & Introduction
15:40 – 16:05 Inspirational Talk & Discussion
16:05 – 16:35 Presentation IV: Janset Shawash and Mattia Thibault – Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) for accessible and engaging spaces of urban heritage
Presentation V: Linda Hirsch – Human-Building Interaction for Interactive Cultural Heritage Site
16:35 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:15 Presentation VI + VII
Denise Lengyel – Gender & Racism: Considerations for Digital Learning Among Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers (tbd)
Siiri Paananen, Juri Etto, Emma Eckhoff, Jemina Colley and Jonna Häkkilä – Uncovering Layers of History through an Archaeological Excavation Prototype with a Tangible UI
17:15 – 18:15 Interactive Session
18:15 – 18:30 Wrap up

We will organize a workshop dinner for everyone on site in the evening.

Organizers

LINDA HIRSCH, LMU Munich, Germany
SIIRI PAANANEN, University of Lapland, Finland
EVA HORNECKER, Bauhaus University, Germany
LUKE HESPANHOL, The University of Sydney, Australia
TSVI KUFLIK, University of Haifa, Israel
TATIANA LOSEV, Simon-Fraser University, Canada
JONNA HÄKKILÄ, University of Lapland, Finland

If you have questions about the workshop, you can contact us by email;

Linda Hirsch
linda.hirsch(a)ifi.lmu.de 

Siiri Paananen
siiri.paananen(a)ulapland.fi

The workshop will take place in a hybrid format during INTERACT 2023 conference on 28th of August in York, UK and Online.
More information on the conference: https://interact2023.org/

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION AT INTERACT ’23

Cultural heritage is often questioned for its relevance or criticized for representing exclusive perspectives of the past. Interactive technologies can be used to bring up new viewpoints, alternative narratives, or intensify or provoke the user experience when cultural heritage is accessed. In our hybrid workshop, Re-Contextualizing Built Environments: Critical & Inclusive HCI Approaches for Cultural Heritage, we invite you to identify approaches that support critical discourse and increase the inclusiveness of cultural heritage and computer mediated interaction with it.

We welcome research or position paper of 2-4 pages in Springer format or a pictorial of 4-6 pages including references through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=recoch2023.

Submission topics can include but are not limited to the following topics involving interactive technologies:

• Case studies of heritage sites.
• Approaches for dealing with layers of history and conflicting or historically shifting perspectives of historical sites and monuments.
• Concepts for participatory design approaches to engage people and citizens with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Concepts for playful interactions with the physical environment to create contextualized built environments for cultural heritage.
• Approaches to design direct interaction with historical built environments or exhibition spaces and simulations.
• Critical Inquiries: cultural sensitivities and ethics.

Submissions should not be anonymized. The submission deadline is Thursday, May 25th, 2023, AoE (extended from May 19th, 2023). The workshop papers and presentations will be published on the web page. The papers may be included in the Interact’23 proceedings, authors can opt out of this. At least one author of each accepted submission has to attend the workshop, and workshop participants must register for at least one day of the conference.

Accepted papers

Linda Hirsch – Human-Building Interaction for Interactive Cultural Heritage Site
Janset Shawash and Mattia Thibault Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) for accessible and engaging spaces of urban heritage
Yifan Kong and Irene Gammel – Rediscovering West Chinatown: Immersive Game Design Revives Toronto’s Chinese Cultural Heritage
Melanie Sarantou, Amna Qureshi, Sherrie Jones and Serena Gunter – “I will now be more aware”: The Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Indigenous Artmaking in Living Cultural Heritage
Clare Cooper, Michael Mossman and Elle Davidson – Indigenous-led Yarning Circles using live Miro boards: Encouraging critical and inclusive discourse on cultural heritage
Siiri Paananen, Juri Etto, Emma Eckhoff, Jemina Colley and Jonna Häkkilä – Uncovering Layers of History through an Archaeological Excavation Prototype with a Tangible UI