Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage
暫譯: 文化遺產的互動媒體

Fotis Liarokapis is currently the Research Director of CYENS - Centre of Excellence, Nicosia, Cyprus and a visiting Professor at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK. Dr. Liarokapis holds a BEng from the University of Sussex, an MSc from the University of Hull, and a DPhil from the University of Sussex. Before moving to Cyprus, he was an Associate Professor and the Director of the HCI Lab at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Prior to this, he was employed as a Senior Lecturer by the department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. He was also a research fellow at the 'Serious Games Institute' (SGI), Coventry University. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at City University and before that as a research officer at the University of Sussex. He has contributed to more than 170 refereed publications in the broad areas of virtual and augmented reality, serious games, computer graphics and brain computer interfaces. Dr. Liarokapis organised multiple conferences and workshops and he was the co-founder of the International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games). He was the program-chair of IEEE CoG 2020 and IEEE CoG 2021 as well as the general chair of IMET 2022, the general co-chair of IMET 2023 and the publications chair of Mobile HCI 2023. He co-organized the 'Mixing Realities: Cross-reality Visualization, Interaction, and Collaboration' workshop at IEEE VR 2023 and he was the general co-chair of Eurographics 2024.

Maria Shehade is a Senior Research Associate at the Museum Lab of the CYENS Centre of Excellence and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology. She obtained her PhD in Cultural Heritage Management from University College London. She also holds an MA in Cultural Heritage Management from University College London and a BA in History, Archaeology and History of Art from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has many years of proven experience in research on digital cultural heritage, cultural policy, cultural heritage management and cultural diplomacy and was involved as a Senior Researcher in several research projects in the UK, Greece and Cyprus, with special focus on digital applications for museums and heritage sites, developing long experience on European-funded research programs. She also has many years of teaching experience and has taught in several universities in Cyprus and the UK, including most recently, the University of Nicosia, Open University Cyprus and the Cyprus University of Technology. She has received several scholarships, awards and research grants for her research from the National Foundation of Scholarships of Greece, the UCL Graduate School and the Leventis Scholarship Foundation, which also funded her doctoral research, and the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. She also serves as a member in several national evaluation committees and review panels as expert evaluator for research proposals in the fields of cultural heritage and heritage science, and organised several international conferences. She serves as a board member in several international conferences on the application of new technologies in the GLAM sector, including the Program Board of the HCI International Culture and Computing. She was also the general chair of IMET 2021 and IMET 2022. Her research interests lie in the areas of heritage management and cultural policy, with an emphasis on interactive and emerging technologies in museums and heritage sites, especially focusing on the visitor experience, and issues of presence, authenticity, immersion and engagement. Her research also focuses on multisensory experiences in museum environments and the visitors' sense of presence, which was the subject of the latest book she edited, entitled Museums and Technologies of Presence, which was published in 2023.

Andreas Aristidou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus and a Research Fellow at the CYENS Center of Excellence. He completed his PhD as a Cambridge European Trust fellow at the University of Cambridge and holds an MSc in Mobile and Personal Communications from King's College London, where he graduated with honors. Dr. Aristidou also obtained a BSc in Informatics and Telecommunications from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He previously worked as a Research Fellow at Shandong University in China, IDC Herzliya in Israel, the University of Cyprus, and the Cyprus University of Technology. Currently, he is on the editorial boards of The Visual Computer and Heritage journals, and serves as a guest editor for the Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences and Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (AACA) journals. He is a senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Eurographics. Dr. Aristidou has received several awards, distinctions, and research grants from highly competitive organizations, including EU fellowships and grants, the Office of Naval Research Global, NVIDIA, and the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. His research includes over 60 peer-reviewed publications and has made significant contributions to both academia and industry. Among other contributions, he is the leading author of the FABRIK algorithm, which has become the default solution in all major game engines like Unity, Blender, and the Unreal engine, while he has developed and maintained the largest globally-accessible dance motion capture database. His primary research interests lie in the broader field of computer graphics, extended reality, and vision. He specializes in character animation (analysis, classification, and synthesis) and motion capture, where he uses techniques like machine learning and generative AI models to create virtual humans. His work also extends to digital heritage, VR/AR/MR environments, and the application of Conformal Geometric Algebra in computer graphics

Yiorgos L. Chrysanthou is the General Director of the CYENS Centre of Excellence and a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus. Yiorgos received his PhD from Queen Mary College, University of London and worked for several years as a research fellow and a lecturer at University College London before coming to Cyprus in 2001. He has published over 90 papers in journals and international conferences on computer graphics and virtual reality and is a co-author of the book "Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments: From Realism to Real-Time", (Addison-Wesley 2001+ China Machine Press 2004). Yiorgos has served as the local or overall coordinator of over 25 research projects, including a Marie Curie Training Network (4 mil Euro) as well as a Widening Teaming grant - as scientific coordinator (15 mil Euro). Yiorgos has been the supervisor of 12 doctoral students, 8 of which have already successfully obtained their PhD, while the others are expected to complete soon. Yiorgos is currently on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Computer Graphics (Treasurer). His research interests lie in the general area of 3D Computer Graphics, including algorithms visibility processing, illumination, real-time AR and VR rendering and computer animation.

Fotis Liarokapis 目前是塞浦路斯尼科西亞的 CYENS - 卓越中心的研究主任，並且是英國伯明翰城市大學的訪問教授。Liarokapis 博士擁有薩塞克斯大學的工程學學士學位（BEng）、赫爾大學的碩士學位（MSc）以及薩塞克斯大學的博士學位（DPhil）。在移居塞浦路斯之前，他曾擔任捷克共和國馬薩里克大學的人機互動實驗室副教授及主任。在此之前，他在考文垂大學的計算機系擔任高級講師。他還曾是考文垂大學「嚴肅遊戲研究所」（SGI）的研究員。之前，他在城市大學擔任研究員，並在薩塞克斯大學擔任研究官。他在虛擬與增強現實、嚴肅遊戲、計算機圖形學和腦機介面等廣泛領域發表了超過 170 篇經過審核的出版物。Liarokapis 博士組織了多場會議和研討會，並且是國際虛擬世界與嚴肅應用遊戲會議（VS-Games）的共同創辦人。他曾擔任 IEEE CoG 2020 和 IEEE CoG 2021 的程序主席，以及 IMET 2022 的總主席、IMET 2023 的共同主席和 Mobile HCI 2023 的出版主席。他共同組織了 IEEE VR 2023 的「混合現實：跨現實可視化、互動與合作」研討會，並且是 Eurographics 2024 的共同主席。

Maria Shehade 是 CYENS 卓越中心博物館實驗室的高級研究助理，並且是塞浦路斯科技大學的兼任講師。她在倫敦大學學院獲得文化遺產管理的博士學位。她還擁有倫敦大學學院的文化遺產管理碩士學位和雅典國立暨卡波迪斯特里亞大學的歷史、考古學及藝術史學士學位。她在數位文化遺產、文化政策、文化遺產管理和文化外交的研究方面擁有多年經驗，並作為高級研究員參與了多個在英國、希臘和塞浦路斯的研究項目，特別專注於博物館和遺產地的數位應用，並在歐洲資助的研究計劃中積累了豐富的經驗。她還擁有多年教學經驗，曾在塞浦路斯和英國的多所大學任教，包括最近的尼科西亞大學、塞浦路斯開放大學和塞浦路斯科技大學。她曾獲得多項獎學金、獎項和研究資助，包括來自希臘國家獎學金基金會、倫敦大學學院研究生院和 Leventis 獎學金基金會的資助，後者也資助了她的博士研究，以及塞浦路斯研究與創新基金會。她還擔任多個國家評估委員會和審查小組的成員，作為文化遺產和遺產科學領域研究提案的專家評估者，並組織了多場國際會議。她是多個國際會議的董事會成員，專注於新技術在 GLAM 部門的應用，包括 HCI 國際文化與計算的程序委員會。她還曾擔任 IMET 2021 和 IMET 2022 的總主席。她的研究興趣集中在遺產管理和文化政策領域，特別強調博物館和遺產地的互動和新興技術，尤其關注訪客體驗、存在感、真實性、沉浸感和參與感等問題。她的研究還專注於博物館環境中的多感官體驗和訪客的存在感，這也是她編輯的最新書籍《博物館與存在技術》的主題，該書於 2023 年出版。

Andreas Aristidou 是塞浦路斯大學計算機科學系的副教授，並且是 CYENS 卓越中心的研究員。他在劍橋大學完成了博士學位，並作為劍橋歐洲信託的研究員獲得學位，擁有倫敦國王學院的移動和個人通信碩士學位，並以優異成績畢業。Aristidou 博士還獲得了雅典國立暨卡波迪斯特里亞大學的資訊學和電信學士學位。他曾在中國山東大學、以色列赫茲利亞國際學院、塞浦路斯大學和塞浦路斯科技大學擔任研究員。目前，他是《視覺計算》和《遺產》期刊的編輯委員會成員，並擔任《應用科學中的數學方法》和《應用克利福德代數的進展》（AACA）期刊的客座編輯。他是計算機協會（ACM）、電氣和電子工程師協會（IEEE）和歐洲圖形學會的高級會員。Aristidou 博士曾獲得多項來自高度競爭性組織的獎項、榮譽和研究資助，包括歐盟獎學金和資助、海軍研究辦公室全球部、NVIDIA 和塞浦路斯研究與創新基金會的資助。他的研究包括超過 60 篇經過同行評審的出版物，並對學術界和產業做出了重要貢獻。在其他貢獻中，他是 FABRIK 演算法的主要作者，該演算法已成為所有主要遊戲引擎（如 Unity、Blender 和 Unreal Engine）的默認解決方案，同時他還開發並維護了全球最大的舞蹈動作捕捉數據庫。他的主要研究興趣集中在計算機圖形學、擴展現實和視覺的廣泛領域，專注於角色動畫（分析、分類和合成）和動作捕捉，並使用機器學習和生成 AI 模型等技術來創建虛擬人類。他的工作還擴展到數位遺產、VR/AR/MR 環境以及在計算機圖形學中應用的保形幾何代數。

Yiorgos L. Chrysanthou 是 CYENS 卓越中心的總主任，並且是塞浦路斯大學計算機科學系的教授。Yiorgos 在倫敦大學的女王瑪麗學院獲得博士學位，並在來到塞浦路斯之前，在倫敦大學學院擔任研究員和講師多年。他在計算機圖形學和虛擬現實領域的期刊和國際會議上發表了超過 90 篇論文，並且是《計算機圖形學與虛擬環境：從現實主義到實時》（Addison-Wesley 2001 + 中國機械出版社 2004）一書的共同作者。Yiorgos 曾擔任超過 25 個研究項目的地方或總協調員，包括一個瑪麗·居里培訓網絡（400 萬歐元）以及一個擴大團隊資助 - 作為科學協調員（1500 萬歐元）。Yiorgos 曾指導 12 名博士生，其中 8 名已成功獲得博士學位，其他人預計也將很快完成。Yiorgos 目前是歐洲計算機圖形學協會的執行委員會成員（財務主管）。他的研究興趣集中在 3D 計算機圖形學的一般領域，包括演算法可見性處理、照明、實時 AR 和 VR 渲染以及計算機動畫。