A multimedia approach to the diffusion, communication, and exploitation of Cultural Heritage
(CH) is a well-established trend worldwide. Several studies demonstrate that the use of new …

In recent years, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Virtuality (AV),
and Mixed Reality (MxR) have become popular immersive reality technologies for cultural …

Online identities survive the deaths of those they represent, leaving friends and families to
struggle with the appropriate ways to incorporate these identities into the practices of grief …

Living in a world that is increasingly 'on the move'means that many of us now rely on mobile
devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our …

Upon publication almost 15 years ago, the first edition almost instantly became a trusted
reference, setting the stage for the coming decade, in which the explosion in research and …

Cultural Heritage (CH) refers to the representation of historical places and traditional
customs of a specific city or country. Its principal aim is to transmit to future generations how …

This chapter analyses the current discourses surrounding gamification and the ludification of
culture as rhetorics in Kenneth Burke's (1950) sense: different worldviews and moral politics …

The proliferation of social network sites has resulted in an increasing number of profiles
representing deceased users. In this paper, we present the results of a mixed-methods …

The Wizard of Oz prototyping approach, widely used in human-computer interaction
research, is particularly useful in exploring user interfaces for pervasive, ubiquitous, or …

Visual mixed and augmented realities have historically been applied to the gaming
application domain. This article provides a survey of visual mixed and augmented reality …