Tag: Cultural heritage

‘Ecocinema and Cultural Heritage, New Perspective on the Past’ – Research seminar with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania) on Wednesday 13 December

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Please join us on Wednesday 13 December, when we are pleased to host Lucia Di Girolamo of University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, introduced by Dr Rinella Cere for a research seminar exploring new forms of identity and being, unveiled by Ecocinema approaches in: Ecocinema and Cultural Heritage, New Perspective on the Past. In the 20th century, the Anthropocene brought about […]

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ON THE RADAR: ‘What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy’ with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)

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ON THE RADAR: ‘What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy’ with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”) Tuesday 22 November 2022, 1300-1400 Cantor 9235 All welcome, free to attend – and please share with your colleagues and PGR students! Please join us for ON THE RADAR, an informal research seminar promoting the sharing of knowledge within […]

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Diane Rodgers to give talk at the Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic in Todmorden, 1st October 2022

Diane A. Rodgers, a member of the Centre for Contemporary Legend and also the CCMS Cultural Heritage Research Group has been invited to speak about her research at the Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic in Todmorden, on Sat 1st October.   The talk, titled ‘Generation Hexed‘, will examine television in the 1970s, bursting at the seams with weirdness, eeriness, supernatural folklore […]

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‘Taking Museum Visitors Beyond Information’: Professor Daniela Petrelli presents at Design Informatics research seminar in Edinburgh – Thursday 31 October

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Design Informatics – Designed to Generate Emotions: Taking Museum Visitors Beyond Information Thursday 31 October 2019, 4PM Inspace, 1 Crichton Steet, Edinburgh Since the late 90s, mobile devices have been a favoured platform for the delivery of digital content in cultural heritage settings and apps are now commonplace. The emerging Internet of Things could change this landscape: by enabling the seamless […]

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Cultural heritage: Daniela Petrelli kicks off ILUCIDARE co-creation atelier in Kraków

Daniela Petrelli at the ILUCIDARE co-creation atelier (Image taken from ILUCIDARE Twitter)

Sheffield Hallam’s Professor of Interaction Design Professor Daniela Petrelli was recently at the International Cultural Centre in Kraków for the second meeting of the ILUCIDARE Consortium. ILUCIDARE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme with the aim of establishing an international network promoting heritage as a resource for innovation and international cooperation. Daniela started off the co-creation atelier taking […]

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How ‘smart objects’ can bring cultural heritage to life

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How ‘smart objects’ can bring cultural heritage to life When the first visitors arrived at Atlantik Wall, an interactive World War Two exhibition in The Hague, they were presented with an unusual choice. Would they prefer to carry around a miniature beer mug, a box of sugar, a food coupon, or one of three other items? These replicas were all […]

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meSch selected for exhibition at the ‘Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage’ this November

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meSch: Material EncounterS with digital Cultural Heritage was a 4-year EU funded project with the goal of co-designing novel platforms for the creation of tangible exhibits at heritage sites: curators will be able to offer visitors new interactive experiences by means of material interaction with smart objects. meSch has been selected to exhibit in the forthcoming event Fair of European Innovators in […]

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‘Beyond the Phone: Mobile Cultural Heritage in the Age of the Internet of Things’ – Professor Daniela Petrelli invited to speak at MobileCH2018 in Barcelona

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SHU Professor of Interaction Design Daniela Petrelli has been invited to speak at this year’s MobileCH workshop. The workshops, in its second year, is focused on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage and will be held in Barcelona in conjunction with Mobile HCI 2018 (the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services). Daniela will be giving a talk entitled Beyond […]

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Tuesday 20 February 2018 – Lunchtime seminar with Carmelo Ardito and Giuseppe Desolda (University of Bari)

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Speakers: Carmelo Ardito (Assistant Professor) and Giuseppe Desolda (Research Fellow) of the Interaction, Visualisation, Usability and UX Lab, University of Bari, Italy. Title: Empowering Cultural Heritage Experts to Design Smart Environments Hosted by: Professor Daniela Petrelli The growing availability of computer technologies like smartphones, interactive displays and smart objects is stimulating Human-Computer Interaction researchers to investigate how non-technical users can […]

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