Assassin’s Creed: What is it doing in the history class?
Assassin's Creed: Origins, victims of the protagonist's rage and contracts are stacked by remaining NPCs and sometimes in rather unsettling positions.
View ArticleRethinking Virtual Places
I mentioned this before (it went through 3 years of reviews) but the (updated) Rethinking Virtual Places book (97,000 words, approx 30 images) will be published by Indiana University Press in The...
View ArticlePhD scholarships at University of Western Australia, Perth
I am now an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, FABLE, University of Western Australia and can be an associate supervisor for one of these PhD scholarships:...
View ArticleLeaving Curtin University
At the end of August 2020 my contract with Curtin University will expire, with the pandemic and budget issues, unless I take up a little sessional teaching (and possibly adjunct reseearch as CI on...
View ArticleThe Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places (preprint)
The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places In preprint, not proofed and not correctly paginated version, is available.This is an Accepted Manuscript of book chapters published by Routledge in...
View ArticlePhilosophy in VR
I was intending to propose the following book proposal to a major publisher. I think, with recent events, I will wait until the end of 2020 before I revisit the project/proposal, but any feedback would...
View Articleteaching one more semester
looks like I am teaching again, at very, very short notice. Will be on the lookout for interesting digital humanities and GLAM datasets that are fairly robust, not too big or small, and would make for...
View ArticleBoard games expose the triple-layering of mechanics
I’ve been thinking, one of the problems with the concept of game mechanics is it is not always clear who the mechanics work for, and at what level. Mechanics can refer to and include: The designer’s...
View ArticleSurvey of 3D digital heritage repositories and platforms
The editor of Virtual Archaeology Review has kindly created a shout out to our recent article “Survey of 3D digital heritage repositories and platforms” (in Vol. 11 no. 23, 2020):
View ArticleNot actually published yet, but accepted
I’m very happy that my rather large article “Culturally Significant PresenceIn Single-Player Computer Games” has been accepted for the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. This is despite...
View ArticleNew OA article: “A Comparative Evaluation of Geospatial Semantic Web...
“A Comparative Evaluation of Geospatial Semantic Web Frameworks for Cultural Heritage” has been published in Heritage and is available online. by Ikrom Nishanbaev 1,*, Erik Champion 1,2,3 and David A....
View ArticlePerhaps Digital Humanities..
should be defined by its aims rather than any “essence” .. Corso di dottorato di ricerca inSTUDI STORICO-ARTISTICI E AUDIOVISIVICiclo(XXX)Titolo della tesi “APPLICAZIONE DEL DIGITAL STORYTELLINGCOME...
View ArticleInterview in French on virtual tourism
Although I don’t recommend the activity in the photo.. https://www.geo.fr/voyage/la-realite-virtuelle-va-t-elle-revolutionner-nos-vacances-201598
View ArticleVirtual Heritage in Focus
It is a working title (so will change, no doubt, any suggestions?) but here is the working chapter structure sent off for review today (hopefully) with an expected audience, undergraduate digital...
View Article#CFP Euromed 2020: Free, virtual
#CFP http://euromed2020.eu 8th Internatonal Conference on Digital Heritage, 2-5 November, 2020, technically Cyprus but online (virtual), free. Papers due 15 September. Papers published in LNCS by...
View Article#CFP Culture and Computing C&C2021 Conference
I have been invited by Professor Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, onto the program board of C&C: 9th International Conference on Culture and Computing, part of HCI...
View ArticleUNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation
The 2016-2020 UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation has ended. First Chair at Curtin. Less than 4 years, but various awards/prizes, media, 3 Australian Research Council (+international)...
View ArticleLatest Journal article *nearly out
For JOCCH, in production now. Very long paper, sorry! Abstract below..
View ArticleWriting grant applications the wrong way
I should know better. I get fascinated by a problem, plan it in my head, spend too much time on costing things, over-simplify for clarity’s sake, then run out of time explaining why it is significant...
View ArticleNew journal article
New article out today: Dawson B, Joseph P, Champion E. Evaluating User Experience of a Multimedia Storyteller Panorama Tour: The Story of the Markham Car Collection. Collections. 2020;16(3):251-278....
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