Researchers from Inria Sophia Antipolis centre, in collaboration with Adobe and UC Berkeley developed a method that can alter the lighting of your pictures and videos in a few clicks. This innovative algorithm use a neural network that was trained on synthetic images but can also work on real images. The results show it is possible […]
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; […]
EMOTIVE’s partner ATHENA traveled to Boston in early April 2019 to participate in MuseWeb ‘19 (the new name for the popular “Museums and the Web” conference). The conference is organised annually and explores advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. ATHENA had a taste of the latest digital […]
The EMOTIVE project has been included as one of seven successful cooperation examples in the newly published How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Guidelines. This report, edited by Maciej Maryl and Klaudia Grabowska (Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences), is the outcome […]
We are delighted to announce that EMOTIVE paper has been accepted to the prestigious CHI 2019 conference in Glasgow, UK. The title of the paper is Transformation through Provocation? Designing a “Bot of Conviction” to Challenge Conceptions and Evoke Critical Reflection and the authors are Roussou, M., Perry, S., Katifori, A., Vassos, S., Tzouganatou, A., & McKinney, S.The ACM CHI Conference on […]
On Monday the 14th of May 2018, the EMOTIVE team had the chance to organize and co-host with the CrossCult project an exciting event that brought together representatives of most of the current cultural heritage EU funded projects. The event was structured in three main sessions, attempting to approach cultural heritage research and innovation through […]
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 Ph.D. student Julien Philip from Inria presented a paper ‘Plane-Based Multi-View Inpainting for Image-Based Rendering in Large Scenes’ at the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 17 May 2018. This is the leading conference for real time 3D computer graphics and human interaction. The paper […]
Our team GRAPHDECO at Inria is very excited about working in the multidisciplinary EMOTIVE project, and having the opportunity to work with our cultural and technological partners who are one of the best in their areas respectively. We are also pleased to contribute to the development of authoring tools for creating compelling emotional experiences. The […]