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EncodingActs: Modeling, Representing and Transmitting Embodied Knowledge in Traditional Martial Arts

EncodingActs investigates how computational methods can facilitate the transmission of multifaceted knowledge within intangible cultural heritage (ICH). ICH, characterized by living, tacit, yet complex epistemic systems, is conventionally viewed as challen ...

EPFL2024

Ontology-based Knowledge Representation for Traditional Martial Arts

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

Traditional martial arts are treasures of humanity's knowledge and critical carriers of sociocultural memories throughout history. However, such treasured practices have encountered various challenges in knowledge transmission and now feature many entries ...

2024

Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Alain Bovet

Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painf ...

2024

Fine Arts in Transition: An Operative Research and Teaching Approach between Analogue and Digital

Nicola Braghieri, Filippo Fanciotti

The volume collects the material produced for the exhibition 'The Sky in the Room' and a selection of scientific texts on the question of analogue continuity in digital transition. The contributions will be focused on verifying the operative method in teac ...

EPFL Press2024

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

Yuchen Yang

Purpose Recent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of memory materials, encourage personalized sense-making and extract, man ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2024

Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou

Purpose: Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have created new avenues to open up cultural data resources, yet mainly as appa ...

2023

The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach

Yumeng Hou

Investigating the intangible nature of a cultural domain can take multiple forms, addressing for example the aesthetic, epistemic and social dimensions of its phenomenology. The context of Southern Chinese martial arts is of particular significance as it c ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Co-encoding embodied knowledge in Southern Chinese martial arts: a collaboration between computists, experts, and digital models

Yumeng Hou

This research, within the framework of computational archives, inspects a novel approach to representing intangible knowledge in traditional martial arts. The methodology presents a unity of ontological modeling, semantic annotation, and feature-based mach ...

Zenodo2023

Building a Knowledge Graph of Chinese Kung Fu Masters From Heterogeneous Bilingual Data

Lin Yuan, Yumeng Hou, Lin Yuan

Various endeavours into semantic web technologies and ontology engineering have been made within the organisation of cultural data, facilitating public access to digital assets. Although models for conceptualising objects have reached a certain level of ma ...

2023

Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980). Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

Giuseppe Galbiati

Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...

EPFL2023

Comparison of questionnaire items for discomfort glare studies in daylit spaces

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Caroline Karmann, Clotilde Marie A Pierson, Sneha Jain, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek

When studying discomfort glare, researchers tend to rely on a single questionnaire item to obtain user evaluations. It is unclear whether the choice of questionnaire item affects the distribution of user responses and leads to inconsistencies between studi ...

2023

On Artificial Intelligence and Manipulation

Marcello Ienca

The increasing diffusion of novel digital and online sociotechnical systems for arational behavioral influence based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as social media, microtargeting advertising, and personalized search algorithms, has brought about ne ...

SPRINGER2023

Interactive Digital Engagement With Visual Artworks and Cultural Artefacts Enhances User Aesthetic Experiences in the Laboratory and Museum

Martin Vetterli, Christine Mohr, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz

Digital technologies reshape the way we interact with our environment, including with artworks. Advanced computational imaging solutions allow having extremely high-resolution digital reproductions of artworks outside museums, presumably increasing artwork ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2022

Poster World. Bespoke AI Meets Curator Expertise for Public Engagement

Mathieu Salzmann, Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Emily Clare Groves, Lara Jacqueline Défayes, Andrea Regula Schneider, André Viegas Andrade

Though museums are digitising their archives, online consultations remain low. New forms of engagement bring these digital memories to life and can support museums in maintaining and developing digital resources. Artificial Intelligence presents opportunit ...

2022

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

A Third Way Alternative; Critical Assessments from the Model of the Yugoslav City

Jana Konstantinova

This dissertation aims to demonstrate the development, meaning and significance of cultural infrastructure in the cities of Skopje, Belgrade and Sarajevo (1945-1991). In the historic context, culture became the fundamental critical tool with which to yield ...

EPFL2021

Experimental museology: immersive visualisation and cultural (big) data

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses how recent and painful pasts can be incorporated into the plans of a yet-to-come Museum of Memory in Bogota, Columbia. It analy ...

Routledge2021

Archiving the Leftovers of Science: Metadata and Histories of Scientific Institutions

Alina Volynskaya

In this article, I focus on digital scientific archives which are made up of the leftovers of science, such as drafts, obsolete instruments, photographs, documentation, etc. The artifacts exhibited in such collections were neither meant to be representatio ...

2021

Understanding intergenerational fitness tracking practices: 12 suggestions for design

Pearl Pu Faltings, Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat

The paper presents a qualitative study to explore the use of fitness trackers and their social functions in intergenerational settings. The study covered three phases of semi-structured interviews with older and younger adults during individual and interge ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Renormalizing individual performance metrics for cultural heritage management of sports records

Orion B Penner

Individual performance metrics are commonly used to compare players from different eras. However, such cross-era comparison is often biased due to significant changes in success factors underlying player achievement rates (e.g. performance enhancing drugs ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020