Microsoft Academic’s top VH conferences
According to Microsoft Academic these are the top Virtual Heritage conferences..(journals are here).
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I am traveling to Italy first week of September teaching a workshop on serious games and game prototypes for history and heritage, and providing a lecture on virtual heritage scholarship. In December I...
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Pending, To Be Presented or Published Books Champion, E. (2020: written, under review). Rethinking Virtual Places. Indiana University Press, Spatial Humanities series. Lee, C. & Champion, E. (Ed)....
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Bekele, M., & Champion, E. (2019). A Comparison of Immersive Realities and Interaction Methods: Cultural Learning in Virtual Heritage. Frontiers in Robotics and AI | Virtual Environments: Emergent...
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“The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places” is listed in “76 Best New Philosophers Books To Read In 2019” Woohoo! In the **TOP** 76! Somebody – Mr Tim O’Reilly? – reads quickly!
View ArticleCAA2020 Session: From Spade to Joystick
Juan Robert and I were fortunate to have our session proposal accepted for Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA2020), 14-17 April, 2020, Oxford UK. Here it is...
View Articlenew article: A Comparison of Immersive Realities and Interaction Methods:...
A Comparison of Immersive Realities and Interaction Methods: Cultural Learning in Virtual Heritage by Mafkereseb Kassahun Bekele and Erik Champion Open access article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI,...
View ArticleYou can’t have virtual places
I am now, in note form, going to argue against so much of what I have written, and it may not be clear what I am trying to capture, but I guess that is what blogging is for. Places in themselves don’t...
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14-18 October 2019 I will be in Auckland and Wellington (New Zealand) and Melbourne (Australia). 23-24 November I have been invited to Hainan China 9 December I am the keynote at DH Downunder Newcastle...
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*START* DUE CONFERENCE THEME LOCATION 23-Nov-19 invited ITCF 4th Boao International Tourism Communication Forum (ITCF) Hainan China 03-Dec-19 18-Oct-19 ozchi2019 Experience Design (short papers) Perth...
View ArticleeTourism, Immersive GLAM and Virtual Heritage
Free event at Curtin University Friday 8 November 1-3.30 PM Register at eventbrite. Local and international speakers talk about their research and synergies between heritage, tourism and GLAM via...
View ArticleNew OA Book Chapter
Champion, Erik. “From Historical Models to Virtual Heritage Simulations”. Chap. 4 In Der Modelle Tugend 2.0 Digitale 3d-Rekonstruktion Als Virtueller Raum Der Architekturhistorischen Forschung...
View ArticleLooking for a visiting scholar after August 2020?
I am looking for a visiting scholar/fellow role from 1 September 2020 (or sometime during the last 4 months of 2020) can be very short-term. If you know of one especially in digital humanities, serious...
View ArticleeTourism, Immersive GLAM and Virtual Heritage
“Local and international speakers talk about their research and synergies between heritage, tourism and GLAM via digital technology” Free event at Curtin Friday 8 November 12.30-3.30...
View ArticleCFP: Playable Theory & Critical History in Archaeological Games (CAA 2020)
Robert Houghton, Juan Hiriart and I are running a session at CAA 2020, 14-17 April, Oxford, on playable theory in archeological games. Come and join us with presentations and demonstrations of your...
View ArticleTomorrow’s OZCHi2019 keynote
About OzCHI Experiential Tourism and Virtual Heritage: the interaction design challenges. Material heritage decays, intangible heritage disappears. But virtual heritage (virtual reality serving the...
View Articlegame prototyping workshop, Dhdownunder 2019
Today I ran a game prototyping workshop, at Dhdownunder 2019, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia. Prototyping and Pitching Playfully Serious Games I gave a very quick slide presentation of...
View ArticleDigital Heritage: Presenting Futures Past
I gave a keynote Monday 9 December at Dhdownunder 2019, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia. The title was Digital Heritage: Presenting Futures Past The slides can be viewed and downloaded in...
View ArticleChallenges in funding Humanities Infrastructure
I was involved in two failed Humanities applications to the Australian Research Data Commons Platforms initiative so I am no doubt biased (and currently on holiday). But let me follow up this...
View ArticleARC Indigenous Discovery
I am honoured to be part of the advisory group for this ARC Indigenous Discovery awarded project:...
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