ACM-SIGCHI supported summer school on Technology for Cultural Heritage (Tech4CH)
ACM-SIGCHI supported summer school on Technology for Cultural Heritage (Tech4CH)
May 18 – May 22 2020
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
https://tech4ch.hevra.haifa.ac.il/
It is a pleasure to invite you to Technology for Cultural Heritage (Tech4CH) summer school. The summer school is intended primarily for graduate research students. The summer school will take place in Haifa, Israel on May 18th – May 22nd 2020. The event is organized by the department of Information Systems at the University of Haifa and represents an event of the joint Italy-Israel Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IT-IL AI4CH). This laboratory has as founding institutions the University of Trento, the University of Modena and reggio emilia and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler from the italian side and the University of Haifa and Technion from the Israeli side.
Leading international researchers will discuss technologies and human-computer interaction techniques suitable for the IoT era.
Visits to indoors and outdoors sites will inspire the participants to design novel interfaces. In addition to lecture presentations by leading researchers, participants will form groups where they will design and develop novel ideas for research projects around how novel technologies and interfaces can be integrated and deployed in a realistic setting for the benefit of users.
The first three days will be dedicated to lectures and small groups work and during the last two days the participants will take part in the Digital Humanities Hackathon (http://dighum.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/hackathon-eng )
The summer school has a triple aim:
- Map out current state of the art technologies to the cultural heritage domain and identify design challenges.
- Examine the potential of technologies for enhancing the cultural heritage visit experience.
- Define initial ideas for solutions that may lead to future research proposals.
The envisioned benefits for participants are:
- Meet and network with renowned international experts
- Work in an interdisciplinary and culturally diverse team
- Collaborate on a written research roadmap for intelligent user interfaces applied to cultural heritage
- Develop a research proposal/position papers/demos/posters to be submitted to relevant workshops/conferences
Topics of interest (may include but are not limited to) All are in the context of Cultural Heritage
Augmented reality Visitors’ guides Web technologies Intelligent user interfaces
Virtual reality Museum visitors’ types Personality User interaction
Indoor positioning Machine vision Persuasion
Guide for participants:
While we do have generous support from SIGCHI (as well as from the University of Haifa, the University of Haifa Data Science center and the AI4CH Italian-Israeli lab) that will enable us to support the participation of student-members of SIGCHI (travelling and accommodation), there is a 70 Euros (minimal) nonrefundable fee for registration (does not apply to members of the IT-IL AI4CH lab).
Notifications of acceptance and level of funding will be sent early March with a link for registration fee payment.
When applying please add a letter from your advisor and a one-page statement of motivation for attendance.
To apply, please click here.
Students at the University of Haifa that will successfully complete the school (their project will be positively evaluated) will be entitled to 2 credits.
Important Dates
Deadline for registration: February 29th.
Notification of acceptance: March 7th.
Registration fee payment: March 15th.
For any enquiries regarding the program, please Contact: ajwecker@gmail.com
For all general enquiries, please Contact: tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il or ylanir@is.haifa.ac.il
We look forward to seeing you at Technology for Cultural Heritage 2020 (Tech4CH2020)
Sincerely,
Tsvi Kuflik, Joel Lanir, Alan J. Wecker - University of Haifa, Israel
Nicu Sebe - University of Trento
Rita Cucchiara - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento and FBK