latest article out: From photo to 3D to mixed reality: A complete workflow...
Open Access for 50 days! Check out at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212054819300153?dgcid=author Rahaman, H., Champion, E., & Bekele, M. (2019). From photo to 3D to mixed...
View Articlepaperback of ‘Organic Design in 20th C Nordic Architecture’ Book
Arrived last week, I think the paperback version may be nicer to hold and read than the hardcover version! Definitely cheaper.. available in Australia or internationally. Organic Design in...
View ArticlePolynesian Philosophy
I attended a conference at the University of Hawaii on the Philosophy of Place at the East-West Center. Now philosophers there told me of their struggle to have Eastern philosophers accepted as...
View ArticleSustainability of 3D models-the hidden criticism
I mentioned last month Hafizur and I had an open access journal article out, “3D Digital Heritage Models as Sustainable Scholarly Resources” at MDPI Sustainability journal. Champion, E.; Rahaman, H. 3D...
View ArticleUser Experience Design Q&A (CAA2019)
S36: User Experience Design in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage We were asked as presenters at the “UX design session” at the CAA2019 conference ( in Krakow Poland, 25 April 2019), to answer some...
View ArticleCIC small grant, Linked Open Data, 3DH
Thanks to Curtin Institute for Computation for a $30,263.88 Operational Research Support Grant on Linked Open Data for 3D Heritage and related web/AR/VR and Makerspace wonders.. More details to follow,...
View ArticleNew Journal Article Out
Another journal article is out: Dawson, Beata, Pauline Joseph, and Erik Champion. 2019. “The Story of the Markham Car Collection: A Cross-Platform Panoramic Tour of Contested Heritage.” Collections 15...
View ArticleNew Journal Article on Geospatial Semantic Web
Nishanbaev, I., Champion, E., McMeekin, D. (2019). A Survey of Geospatial Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage, Heritage, 2(2), 1471-1498; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2020093. Open Access....
View ArticleApplied Research-Digital Humanities Kryptonite?
Should humanities academics be more open to applied research rather than just pure research? I was asked by a director of a digital humanities centre overseas my thoughts on pure or applied research...
View ArticleWas this abstract defensible or too provocative?
Accepted with revisions to a digital humanities conference but I seem to have ruffled feathers, what say you to the premises? A Challenge to the Designers of Virtual Places, Virtual Worlds: Where are...
View Article3D and GIS
Today Ikrom had his milestone presentation and (it was the first for me at Curtin so training wheels) but the reviewer questions were more,..ok can you do this for this project of mine..which actually...
View Article#CFP MCG’s Museums+Tech 2019 London
I don’t usually blogpost individual CFPs but this is due 17 June (UK time) and sounds excellent: https://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2019-proposals/ Call for papers now extended to 23:59 (London...
View ArticleThings I am working on..
I may be traveling to Italy start of September, NZ or Australia mid November, and possibly South America (it is complicated). Just submitted a tricky paper on a difficult topic to a farway place I have...
View ArticleUNESCO chair website
We will start listing our UNESCO chair projects at https://computation.curtin.edu.au/research/groups/unesco-chair-cultural-heritage-visualisation/ and link to a 3D and GIS platform of heritage...
View ArticleUNESCO CHAIR Projects (September 2016-June 2019)
2019 Time-layered cultural map of Australia (Erik Champion and research assistant): 2018 ARC LIEF LE190100019 grant (hosted by Newcastle), $420,000 awarded GIS Programming and VR/MR mapping. URL:...
View ArticleTo 3D or Not 3D: Choosing a Photogrammetry Workflow for Cultural Heritage Groups
To 3D or Not 3D: Choosing a Photogrammetry Workflow for Cultural Heritage Groups, Heritage journal article by Dr Hafizur Rahaman and myself is out: Rahaman, H., & Champion, E. (2019). To 3D or Not...
View Articlemajor grant: Photogrammetry heritage and interaction design
Announced today-Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage 2018 Grant LP180100284 awarded $461,783.00 Investigators: Dr Andrew Woods; Professor Erik Champion; Dr Petra Helmholz; Dr David Belton;...
View ArticleNew UNESCO chair website
UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation news and projects will be listed at https://computation.curtin.edu.au/research/groups/unesco-chair-cultural-heritage-visualisation/ for the immediate...
View ArticlePhilosophical issues caught in VR
I am thinking there are quite a few philosophical issues in VR and on writing just a few down methinks there is a potential book here for undergrads but the chapters will have to be reduced in number,...
View Articlesocial media
Apart from twitter I have steered away from academic and social media but have decided to experimentally join or rejoin linked in and research gate. I just hope I don’t spend too much time answering...
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