CFP DiGRA Australia 2025
#CFP three-day DiGRA Australia Game Studies conference 5th – 7th of February, 2025, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. Abstracts due 4 October. Theme: “Communities of Practice...
View Articlefree book chapter
Our book chapter Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums [GLAM]-focused Games and Gamification is free to access until 21 October 2024....
View ArticleCFP – Digital Creativity Special Issue “Creative Digital Escape Rooms”
Call for Papers - Digital Creativity Special Issue on “Creative Digital Escape Rooms”
View ArticleNew book chapter
Champion, E. (2024). Caught Between a Rock and a Ludic Place: Geography for Non-geographers via Games. In M. Morawski & S. Wolff-Seidel (Eds.), Gaming and Geography: A Multi-perspective Approach to...
View ArticleVideogames, Heritage and Tourism
I gave an online talk on the above to Hiroshima University today. I have 4 excellent questions from the students to research and hopefully answer:
View ArticleClosed Twitter/X account
I found twitter very useful, but I did not enjoy X at all especially the increasing politicization, and have left it. Any social media from me is now via here, blue sky, LinkedIn or humanities common.
View ArticleCFP Digital Heritage 2025 Siena Italy 8-13/9/25
Digital Heritage Congress is the big meta-conference of the digital heritage/virtual heritage field. I have been to the first one in Marseille (2013) and reviewed for others....
View ArticleThe world’s oldest (analogue) computer?
Well possibly the oldest one found. The complexity is mind-boggling. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-greek-astronomical-calculation-machine-reveals-new-secrets/
View ArticleMuseum Big Data
Not my field but the talk went really well, if they weren’t lying to me. 97 slides for a keynote is a bit much though!
View ArticleNext (little) book project
Hopefully I will be sent a contract for my next (and possibly last) little book, with Cambridge University Press: Elements, tentatively titled 3D Critical Heritage, for their Critical Heritage Studies...
View ArticleGrant: A Gamified 3D Cultural Heritage Platform for Archaeology and Architecture
I am happy to announce we were funded an ARC Discovery grant today. I will be looking for 2 PhD students for the University of South Australia (Adelaide), and AProf Greenop will be looking for one at...
View ArticleRecent news and update
I am working on a new grant, on a 22+ year old idea that was never implemented! And I have mentioned the grants below, if not the chapters published this month, but just as a roundup (and I have to do...
View ArticleNew book project
Title: 3D Visualization as Critical Heritage I will be working on this next year for Elements: “Critical Heritage Studies” Series, Cambridge University Press. Sections (titles may change slightly)
View ArticleOpen access book on paradata
M. Ioannides, D. Baker, A. Agapiou, & P. Siegkas (Eds.), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V: Paradata, Metadata and Data in Digitisation. Springer Nature Switzerland. Open Access....
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