October 24-26, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sessions

 

The Formal program of ICHIM07 framed the challenges we face in a globalizing and digitizing world to preserve culture, enhance inter-cultural understanding, and communicate the communality and differences in the human experience worldwide.

Sessions are listed chronologically below, or you can see an overview of the program. For more details about types of presentations see the Description of Session Formats.

Wednesday October 24, 2007
9:00 am-
10:30 am
Plenary

Opening Plenary

"To hold infinity in the palm of your hand"

Ian Wilson, Canada

11:00 am-
12:30 pm
Documentation

Conservation

Lascaux, un nouveau point de départ pour une meilleure évaluation des risques (un constat d’état multimédia)

Philippe Dubarry, Patrick Jallet, Françoise Joseph, France

Imag(n)ing Shuilu’an

Harlan Wallach, USA

Creative Limits: Applying Finite Element Analysis to Assess Static Stress in a Large-Scale Stone Sculpture by Henry Moore

Angela Geary, John P. Harrison, Mingzhi Mao, Derek Pullen, United Kingdom

11:00 am-
12:30 pm
Museum

In-Museum Engagement

MUSTEL: Framing the Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning Activities for Museum Visitors

Liam Bannon, Tony Hall, Ireland, Palmyre Pierroux, Dagny Stuedahl, Norway, Victor Kaptelinin, Sweden, Kevin Walker, United Kingdom

CIMAD/EPOCH - A Framework for Developing Customized Multi-channel Cultural Heritage Services

Sara Bartolini, Franca Garzotto, Daniele Manzaroli, Paolo Paolini, Marina Pettinari, Giuseppe Raffa, Luca Roffia, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Italy, Phillip Mohr, Nick Ryan, Lukas Sklenar, United Kingdom

Interaction models and adaptive approaches for a museum guide for families

Marek Hatala, Leora Kornfeld, Kevin Muise, Karen Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary, Canada

2:00 pm-
3:30 pm
Audiences

Audience as Author

Worlds colliding: Participatory storytelling and indigenous culture in building interactive games

Samuel Mann, Khyla Russell, New Zealand

Les musées français et leurs publics à l’âge du Web 2.0. Nouveaux usages du multimédia et transformations des rapports entre institutions et usagers ?

Gaëlle Crenn, Geneviève Vidal, France

Searching For Our Heritage

Sarah Charlie, Ed Krahn, Canada

See additional Interactions and Briefings.
Thursday October 25, 2007
11:00 am-
12:30 pm
Panel

Technology Futures

Enhancing the Role of Cultural Heritage Institutions through New Media: Transformational Agendas and Projects

Kati Geber, , David Bearman, Canada

2:00 pm-
3:30 pm
Audiences

Reaching Young People

Archiving and Analyzing Children’s Culture: Problems and Outcomes of an Innovative Project

Alexander Pollak, Paul Scheibelhofer, Austria

Producing Interactive Digital Media Based Exhibitions to Engage Students with Cultural Heritage: Brighton Fishing Museum, A Case Study

David Arnold, Michael Danks, Richard Griffiths, Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria, United Kingdom

2:00 pm-
3:30 pm
Impact

Social Impact Indicators

Modeling ICT deployment at heritage sites: a mechanism for impact assessment

Jaime Kaminski, Jim McLoughlin, Babak Sodagar, United Kingdom

Physical Spaces and Virtual Visitors: The Methodologies of a Comprehensive IMLS-Sponsored Study of Users and Uses of Museums

José-Marie Griffiths, Donald King, USA

4:00 pm-
5:30 pm
Design

Design Methods

Visitors' contributions as cultural heritage: designing for participation

Liam Bannon, Luigina Ciolfi, Mikael Fernstrom, Ireland

Simplicity, slowness and good old stories as strategies and perspectives of design in hypermedia and media

Harald Kraemer, Switzerland

4:00 pm-
5:30 pm
Virtual

Real World/Virtual Worlds

The Hand Dance: A Didactic Performance Platform

Massimo Bergamasco, Haakon Faste, Otniel Portillo Rodriguez, Elvira Todaro, Italy

Life 1.5: Creating A Task Based Reward Structure In Second Life To Encourage And Direct User Created

Jürgen Nützel, Germany, David Arnold, Lars Wieneke, United Kingdom

See additional Interactions and Briefings.
Friday October 26, 2007
11:00 am-
12:30 pm
Panel

Digital Curation

An agency-oriented approach to digital curation theory and practice

Costis Dallas, Greece

Panel Discussion: Digital Curation

Sara Diamond, Wendy Duff, Canada

2:00 pm-
3:30 pm
Documentation

Visual Documentation Strategies

Archive Visualisation and Exploitation at the C2RMF

Geneviève Aitken, Christian Lahanier, Ruven Pillay, Denis Pitzalis, France

Picture this: developing a museum online photo library

Jim Devine, William Bradley Glisson, Ray Welland, Scotland

What The Modern Museum Should Expect From Its In-House Photographic Studio

James Stevenson, United Kingdom

2:00 pm-
3:30 pm
Impact

Organizational Impacts

Facilitating Innovation: Opportunity in times of change

Brian Dawson, Canada

Digital ICTs: Driver or vehicle of organisational change?

Darren Peacock, Australia

4:00 pm-
5:30 pm
Plenary

Closing Plenary

Eternal Gandhi

Ranjit Makkuni, India

See additional Interactions and Briefings.