From Landscape to Cities: A Participatory Approach to the Creation of Digital Cultural Heritage

People-Place Interactions: From Pictures and Stories to Places and Sense of Place

“…Although geographers have been dealing with the qualitative study of place for more than 50 years (Tuan, 1978), the evolution of smart and connected cities is offering new opportunities and methods to empirically re-examine the notions of place and sense of place within HCI (Akpan et al, 2013;Cranshaw et al, 2016;Crivellaro et al, 2015;Dourish, 2006;Freeman et al, 2019). For example, researchers have captured and recorded emerging cognitive maps through human behaviours in specific environments (Dearman et al, 2011), investigated the possibilities of quantitative and qualitative data in a street's community to extract rich and heterogeneous human and nonhuman assemblages (Taylor et al, 2015), and generated online heritage initiatives by creating and sharing written text, images, video footage and audio about places of interest (Bonacini, 2019;Szabo et al, 2017). These approaches underline the interplay between the things we encounter, both physically and emotionally, and how are they associated with a place and its meaning.…”

Design, content validity, and inter-observer reliability of the ‘Digitization of Cultural Heritage, Identities, and Education’ (DICHIE) instrument

“…The implementation of interactive multimodal technologies for understanding cultural heritage and for its conservation and educational promotion has burdened the user with a leading role in access to and the creative production of digital content and narratives aimed at improving their cultural experiences (Roussou and Katifori, 2018). In this way, the establishment of a bidirectional commitment may be affirmed (King et al, 2016), capable of favouring the development of (critical and creative) social thinking skills for user participation in the co-creation of heritage contents (Szabo et al, 2017). In this sense, "the fusion of tradition, culture, history and the legacy of technology, innovation and interaction provides an attractive system, which serves both for artistic expression and as a fundamental tool for diffusion in cultural institutions" (Portalés et al, 2018, p. 58).…”