Personalized and content adaptive cultural heritage path recommendation: an application to the Gournia and Çatalhöyük archaeological sites

Alexandridis, Georgios; Chrysanthi, Angeliki; Tsekouras, George E.

doi:10.1007/s11257-019-09227-6

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“…Their most widespread application is probably in proposing places to visits, known as points of interests (POIs), in the form of a ranked list. POIs may range from geographical areas and cities to particular places within a city [23] or even specific locations within a cultural heritage site, such as an archeological site or a museum [24]. An extension of the aforementioned systems are RS that recommend paths or travel routes; in this case, the route is modelled as a sequence of spatially correlated POIs to be visited in a pre-defined order.…”

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A Personalized Heritage-Oriented Recommender System Based on Extended Cultural Tourist Typologies

Konstantakis

Alexandridis

2020

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Recent developments in digital technologies regarding the cultural heritage domain have driven technological trends in comfortable and convenient traveling, by offering interactive and personalized user experiences. The emergence of big data analytics, recommendation systems and personalization techniques have created a smart research field, augmenting cultural heritage visitor’s experience. In this work, a novel, hybrid recommender system for cultural places is proposed, that combines user preference with cultural tourist typologies. Starting with the McKercher typology as a user classification research base, which extracts five categories of heritage tourists out of two variables (cultural centrality and depth of user experience) and using a questionnaire, an enriched cultural tourist typology is developed, where three additional variables governing cultural visitor types are also proposed (frequency of visits, visiting knowledge and duration of the visit). The extracted categories per user are fused in a robust collaborative filtering, matrix factorization-based recommendation algorithm as extra user features. The obtained results on reference data collected from eight cities exhibit an improvement in system performance, thereby indicating the robustness of the presented approach.

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A Personalized Heritage-Oriented Recommender System Based on Extended Cultural Tourist Typologies

Konstantakis

Alexandridis

2020

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“…Paths, as spatial features organizing the image of the built environment and the relationships between the components of a historical urban area and its context, are central to urban policies of the preservation of cultural heritage [9][10][11]. Lynch [8] identifies paths as a formal category of the urban layout that affects the structure and the identity of the built environment and, thus, the imageability of the city.…”

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The Multi-Method Tool ‘PAST’ for Evaluating Cultural Routes in Historical Cities: Evidence from Cagliari, Italy

2020

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Thematic paths are a central aspect of urban policies for cultural heritage valorization. In fact, thematic paths are central spatial features for structuring the image of a historical landscape. Hence, this study proposes the cultural paths assessment tool (PAST) as a methodological framework for individuating a network of routes connecting cultural heritage components and for assessing their usefulness. Usefulness is herein defined as the potential of a street network to support the meaningful experience of a historical urban landscape. PAST combines space syntax techniques, a geographic information system, and a qualitative analysis within a multi-criteria analysis framework for addressing four aspects of connecting cultural heritage components, including: (i) the individuation of relevant assets; (ii) the identification of the sub-network of most central street segments; (iii) the definition of the street network of thematic routes; (iv) the assessment of the usefulness of thematic paths, according to the criteria of usability, imageability, and accessibility. The proposed methodology, applied to the historical district of Marina in the city of Cagliari in Italy, supports planning and design processes in two ways: (1) by identifying street segments and squares comprising a network of thematic routes; (2) by individuating high-leverage interventions for improving the usefulness of thematic routes. Consequently, the proposed study addresses the need to establish methodologies and analytic tools that support decision making processes for conserving, managing, and valorizing historic urban landscapes.

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“…Empowering cultural heritage professionals with tools for… individual visitor logs (Kuflik and Dim 2013), to determine visit fatigue (Bitgood 2010), or to dynamically compute which is the next visit step to recommend (see for example (Alexandridis et al 2019) and (Sansonetti et al 2019) for a review of different approaches). Personalisation rules could also embed advanced forms of cognition-based user modelling, as proposed by Raptis et al (2019).…”

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2019

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This paper presents an authoring environment, which supports cultural heritage professionals in the process of creating and deploying a wide range of different personalised interactive experiences that combine the physical (objects, collection and spaces) and the digital (multimedia content). It is based on a novel flexible formalism that represents the content and the context as independent from one another and allows recombining them in multiple ways thus generating many different interactions from the same elements. The authoring environment was developed in a codesign process with heritage stakeholders and addresses the composition of the content, the definition of the personalisation, and the deployment on a physical configuration of bespoke devices. To simplify the editing while maintaining a powerful representation, the complex creation process is deconstructed into a limited number of elements and phases, including aspects to control personalisation both in content and in interaction. The user interface also includes examples of installations for inspiration and as a means for learning what is possible and how to do it. Throughout the paper, installations in public exhibitions are used to illustrate our points and what our authoring environment can produce. The expressiveness of the formalism and the variety of interactive experiences that could be created was assessed via a range of laboratory tests, while a user-centred evaluation with over 40 cultural heritage professionals assessed whether they feel confident in directly controlling personalisation.

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Personalized and content adaptive cultural heritage path recommendation: an application to the Gournia and Çatalhöyük archaeological sites

Cited by 32 publications

References 57 publications

A Personalized Heritage-Oriented Recommender System Based on Extended Cultural Tourist Typologies

A Personalized Heritage-Oriented Recommender System Based on Extended Cultural Tourist Typologies

The Multi-Method Tool ‘PAST’ for Evaluating Cultural Routes in Historical Cities: Evidence from Cagliari, Italy

Empowering cultural heritage professionals with tools for authoring and deploying personalised visitor experiences

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