Maria Boile

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

This research paper introduces a virtual reality (VR) experience designed as a “memoryscape” to immerse users in the life and work of Nikos Skalkottas, a significant yet relatively unknown Greek composer of the 20th century. The VR experience integrates archival material, such as Nikos Skalkottas’s compositions, personal letters, and photographs, a...

Over the past decades, 360-degree virtual tours have been used to provide the public access to accurate representations of cultural heritage sites and museums. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a rise in the popularity of virtual tours as a means of engaging with locations remotely and has raised an interesting question: How could we use suc...

In comparison with a traditional museum, an “ecomuseum” is radically different: It is not housed in a building and does not have a collection of physical objects or artifacts. It aims to help visitors discover the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of a region through the identification of important points of interest (POIs), while offering...

Storytelling has been recognized as a powerful means for engaging visitors of cultural heritage and fostering historical empathy. The creators of storytelling and other types of cultural heritage experiences are in need of reliable sources of information and inspiration that are often difficult to access. In this article we present the Voeska proje...

The ARIA project aims to create an engaging visitor experience for archives of music Cultural Heritage that targets the wider public. The challenge is to conceptualize an experience design where the intangible seamlessly meets the tangible, bridging the gap between obscure archival material and the direct and emotional experience of listening to mu...

In this work we present our proposed approach for augmenting the documentation of cultural heritage assets to support the production of meaningful cultural experiences and other activities. As has been established, the use of experiential activities and storytelling is significantly more appealing to visitors to cultural heritage sites than simple...

The acquaintance of Museums and Cultural Heritage (CH) institutions with the digital age challenges is of no question a matter of survival. Nevertheless, the dialogue between CH and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) do not always lead to a harmonious symbiosis. Moreover, the question of if and how ICT could add value to collections,...

This paper discusses issues related to digital storytelling and its use in Cultural Heritage institutions. It will demonstrate the usefulness and advantages of digital storytelling by providing concrete examples of adoption and suggest how digital storytelling may be used in different cultural heritage environments. We will identify issues and chal...