Preface of
2nd Workskhop on Advanced Visual Interfaces for Cultural Heritage
2018 (AVI-CH 2018)

Cultural Heritage (CH) is a challenging domain of application for novel Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT), where visualization plays a major role in enhancing the visitors’ experience, either onsite or
online. Technology supported natural human-computer interaction is a key factor in enabling access, both onsite
and online, to CH assets. Advances in ICT ease visitors to access collections online and better experience CH onsite,
bringing even wider audiences than those that visit the physical museums. The range of visualization devices -
from tiny smart watch screens, wall-size large situated public displays, to the latest generation of immersive
Head-Mounted Displays - together with the increasing availability of real-time 3D rendering technologies for
online and mobile devices and, recently, Internet of Things (IoT) approaches, requires exploring how they can
be applied successfully in CH. Following the successful workshop at AVI 2016 and the large numbers of recent
events and projects focusing on CH and especially, considering that 2018 has been declared the European Year
of Cultural Heritage, the goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in
presenting and discussing the potential use of state-of-the-art advanced visual interfaces in enhancing our daily
cultural heritage experience.
   Nine papers on applying and investigating advanced visualization techniques on CH contexts were accepted
to AVI-CH 2018. The papers demonstrate the wide diversity of aspects and the resulting technologies and their
combination that are applied and experimented with in CH context. The rich information that is available and
the need to deliver it in compact and attractive manner continue to draw research attention and practically, any
novel technology is being experimented with in this area.
   The workshop papers can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2091/. More information about the workshop,
including its schedule, can be found at the AVI-CH website: http://avich-18.di.unito.it/

   Workshop Chairs: Berardina Nadja De Carolis (University of Bary, Italy), Cristina Gena (University of Torino,
Italy), Tsvi Kuflik (The University of Haifa, Israel), Antonio Origlia (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy), George
E. Raptis (University of Patras, Greece)

  Program Committee: Carmelo Ardito (University of Bary, Italy), Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University, United
Kingdom), Rossana Damiano (University of Torino, Italy), Christos Fidas (University of Patras, Greece), Susan
Hazan (The Israel Museum, Israel), Christina Katsini (University of Patras, Greece), Judy Kay (University of Sydney,
Australia), Elena Quiri (Independent researcher, Italy), Christos Sintoris (University of Patras, Greece), Fabiana
Vernero (University of Torino, Italy), and Massimo Zancanaro (FBK-ICT, Italy).




  The AVI-CH 2018 organizers:
  Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Cristina Gena, Tsvi Kuflik, Antonio Origlia, George E. Raptis


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