Tag: Daniela Petrelli

Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake secure funding to study human-interaction with generative AI

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Professor Daniela Petrelli (ADMRC) and Nick Dulake (Design Futures) have secured EU funding to study human-interaction with generative AI. They will work with AI researchers in Munich to develop a new interactive installation for the Deutches Museum. Petrelli and Dulake have secured funding from the EU Humaine AU Net to explore generative AI and human creativity. Generative AI creates text, […]

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Daniela Petrelli to give keynote speech at DCDC23 – Discovering Collections: Discovering Communities

DCDC23 - Radical reimagining: interplays of physical and virtual. 11-13 July 2023. Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University and online - DCDC23 - Discovering Collections: Discovering Communities

DCDC23: Discovering Collections: Discovering Communities Radical reimagining: interplays of physical and virtual In-person at Durham University and online, 11-13 July 2023   DCDC23 is returning in-person at Durham University and online on 11-13 July 2023. Reconnect with peers, share stories, celebrate past successes, discuss future opportunities, and explore the History Day exhibition, all live in Durham for the first time […]

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‘Usability and Innovation: The Key Role of Research for Business’ – Professor Daniela Petrelli talks at conference at Università Iuav di Venezia

Università Iuav di Venezia – Dipartimento di Culture del progetto Usability and Innovation: The Key Role of Research for Business Conference, taking place 18 April 2023, Cotonificio aula Gradoni, 1430. Marco Zamarato, Google Research Center Hugo Gamboa, NOVA University of Lisbon Benjamin van Buren, The New School University of New York Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield Hallam University Oliver Siy, Google Research […]

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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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‘Overcoming language barriers’ – Daniela Petrelli speaks at the Cross-Lingual Bibliographic Search final workshop

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Sheffield Hallam’s Professor of Interaction Design Professor Daniela Petrelli has been invited to speak at the final workshop of the Cross-Lingual Bibliographic Search (CLuBS), on Friday 07 June 2019 at the Saarland Informatics Campus in Germany. The aim of CLuBS is an empirical evaluation of four different approaches in the field of cross-lingual information retrieval based on the psychological search engine PubPsych with the final […]

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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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Professor Daniela Petrelli invited to give keynote at Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Conference

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Sheffield Hallam’s Professor of Interaction Design Professor Daniela Petrelli has been invited to give a keynote speech at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Conference (CHIIR), being hosted at Glasgow’s Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre this month. The conference runs from Sunday 10 March to Thursday 14 March 2019. Online information influences every aspect of our lives: work, leisure […]

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Monday 04 February 2019 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Valentina Rognoli (Design, Politecnico di Milano)

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Speaker: Dr Valentina Rognoli (Design, Politecnico di Milano) Hosted by: Professor Daniela Petrelli Title: New materials practices: The DIY-Materials A new approach to materials has emerged in the international design scene. Designers are choosing materials not only from material libraries, from suppliers or from the companies who commissioned the project. The designer today is more and more aware that innovation is also coming from direct experimentation with […]

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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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