The question of what is ‘place’ plagues nearly all the social sciences. One thing that should be clear is that the old communication model of culture requiring only a sender and receiver of data is inadequate. Culture has a setting and this setting is enabled through a perceived sense of place. As culture requires a setting, it must be “embedded in real-life situations, in temporally and spatia...

This paper outlines research towards strengthening our understanding of the representation of cultural artifacts in video games. The approach described outlines steps towards utilising a framework using dimensions of cultural heritage as reference points for games analysis. This framework is then used as a mechanism to analyse two games: Assassin’s Creed I and Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta. T...

This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to engineering socio-technical design. The paper addresses technological design for social interactions that are non-instrumental, and thereby sometimes contradictory or surprising and difficult to model. Through cooperative analysis of cultural probe data and development of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) models, ethnographers and sof...

The paper presents that it would be useful for Design Research to be able to discuss about artifacts at a more general and abstract level than the concrete artifacts themselves and suggests that the concepts of mediation and re-mediation might serve such purpose. Based on Krippendorff it is suggested that any artifact carries at least three mediated relationships at the same time, and this is i...

150 words) The evolution of HCI education does not take place in a vacuum, nor is it only controlled by the academics and practitioners close to its core. In this paper we reflect on the causes of change in the HCI curriculum and consider what has been lost and found during these changes. Taking inspiration from both the theme of the workshop and the cultural richness of the workshop location w...

Recent developments in three-dimensional technologies and measurement instrumentation combined with multimedia databases offer today new possibilities for the integrated and complete description of Cultural Heritage Objects (CHO). In this work, we present an attempt to develop a database for archaeological ceramic and glass artifacts, where in addition to digitized two-dimensional images and th...