Some researchers have begun projects to model Japanese cultural heritage objects. Some of Japanese cultural heritage objects are large, but their shapes may be intricate. Thus, the measurement becomes difficult and the large data set must be handled. We propose a new geometric and photometric integration framework of range images of those objects. First, we propose a new method which integrates...

The conservation, spread, comprehension and recreation of traditional culture heritages is one of the main purpose of the National Ethnographic Museum in Bulgaria. As other cultural and scientific heritage institutions, it begins to use new information technologies and strategies for providing access to its cultural heritage treasures. This paper aims to present digital libraries with multimedi...

In the attempt to account for striking differences between learning activities of immigrant mathematics students from the former Soviet Union and of their native Israeli classmates, we introduce the notions of actual and designated identities. These identities are subsequently presented as important factors that mold learning and influence its effectiveness. Since designated identities may be s...

Historic city is a particular type of cultural heritages with sustainable drive of development. It’s a spatial vessel of people’s activities shaped by regional environment, economical and social background. Actually, an integral city is not only meaning the town centers, but also the whole urban area. The massive information scattering on wide range of the urban area and changeful adapting to s...

Museums need an interactive data collection and visualisation tool for their artefacts. This paper describes a study in which we enable access to Chinese and Japanese cultural heritage information from two history museums, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Tokugawa Art Museum in Japan. Results from these museum databases were used to develop a prototype system to demonstrate advanced...

The authors examined whether European Americans (EA) several generations removed from their ancestors varied as a function of their countries of origin by comparing the emotional facial expressions of EA originally from Scandinavian countries (EA-S), who value emotional control, and those from Ireland (EA-I), who value emotional expression. EA-S were less expressive than EA-I while reliving var...

The notion of “Cultural heritage” is quite modern compared to other humanistic fields developed in the last century. Conservation as a science has emerged and took shape during international conventions treaties many places Europe various frameworks recognize heritage its value but based on “Eurocentric bias” criteria. fact sharing universal values common practices age globalization had signifi...