On May 21-22, members from four EMOTIVE partner institutions and companies gathered at the offices of the DIGINEXT in Toulouse in order to test and evaluate the new version of the Visual Scenario Editor, a tool for creating experiences for cultural and creative industries.The Visual Scenario Editor (VSE) developed by DIGINEXT, extends these experiences by […]
Why EMOTIVE? My insider experiences as a visiting scholar at the University of GlasgowMuseum literature taught me that “memorable experiences have an emotional label”; so, “what is emotionally experienced, will be remembered” (Falk & Dierking, 2013). Learning literature, on the other hand, made me realize that there are more layers between “knowing” and “applying” something; […]
On 5-6 November last year we were delighted to host the second EMOTIVE User Workshop in Athens, Greece. The two-day event was attended by a select multidisciplinary group of museum and heritage experts as well as representatives from all partners on the project (see the full list of external participants at the end of this […]
On 5-6 November last year we were delighted to host the second EMOTIVE User Workshop in Athens, Greece. This two-day event was attended by a select multidisciplinary group of museum and heritage experts as well as representatives from all partners on the project (see the full list of external participants at the end of this […]
Call for Papers Emotions in Digital Cultural Heritage: How do we design and evaluate emotionally engaging applications and tools? A Special Session of DigitalHERITAGE 2018 3rd International Congress & Expo 26-30 October 2018, San Francisco, USA https://www.digitalheritage2018.org/ Organised by the EMOTIVE EU project https://emotiveproject.eu/ Chairs: Maria Economou (University of Glasgow, UK) & Maria Roussou (University of Athens […]
EMOTIVE@ATHENA participates in the International Museum Day 2018 celebrationsThe ATHENA Research Center’s EMOTIVE team participated actively in the celebrations of the International Museum Day 2018 on May 18, 2018. This year’s theme was “Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics”. More than 36,000 museums worldwide participate in the celebrations each year.This year was particularly noteworthy for […]
European Researchers’ Night, or Explorathon as it is known across Scotland, has become an established event in researchers’ public engagement calendar going from strength to strength across Europe since 2005 when it started, and since 2014 in Scotland. It is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions programme and it is an […]
Working with the EMOTIVE Hunterian Museum’s Personas IMAGE 1: Group at 1st EMOTIVE User Workshop (Glasgow University, Hunterian Museum, February 2017) discussing the Hunterian personas We thought it would be timely to introduce the personas we have also developed for the Hunterian museum and the Antonine Wall display and how we used them at […]
Blog post by Sophia Mirashrafi, Katrina Gargett and Sara Perry (University of York) The concept of the ‘persona’ is something which has been utilised in management, advertising and the technology industry since the term was first coined by Alan Cooper nearly twenty years ago (see Cooper, 1998). Used to aid in product design and the […]
The Çatalhöyük Research Project is developing a chatbot for the site and is looking for participants to contribute to its evaluation. Have you ever chatted with a bot before? Here is your chance! If you are interested in taking part in the Facebook Messenger chatbot’s evaluation please send the Çatalhöyük Research Project a private message on Facebook and they will tell […]