AVI-CH 2024 summary

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, whether onsite or online. Technology-supported natural human-computer interaction is a key factor in enabling access, both on-site and online, to CH assets. Recent advances in ICT enhance visitors’ access to online collections as well as their CH experience onsite, bringing even wider audiences than those who visit the physical museums. The range of visualization devices – from tiny smartwatch screens, through 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, Social Robotics, requires exploring how they can be applied successfully in CH. Following the successful workshops at AVI 2016, AVI 2018, AVI 2020, AVI 2022 and AVI 2024 and a large number of recent events and projects focusing on CH, the goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in presenting and discussing the potential of state of the art advanced visual interfaces in enhancing our daily cultural heritage experience. This year the workshop theme will be: AVI for accessibility in CH.