Multimedia for Cultural Heritage First International Workshop, MM4CH

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the First International Workshop on Multimedia for Cultural Heritage, MM4CH 2011, held in Modena, Italy, on May 3, 2011. The 8 full papers and 9 poster papers included in this volume were carefully re

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Costantino Grana Rita Cucchiara (Eds.)

Multimedia for Cultural Heritage First International Workshop, MM4CH 2011 Modena, Italy, May 3, 2011 Revised Selected Papers

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Volume Editors Costantino Grana Rita Cucchiara Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione Via Vignolese 905/b, 41125 Modena, Italy E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

ISSN 1865-0929 e-ISSN 1865-0937 e-ISBN 978-3-642-27978-2 ISBN 978-3-642-27977-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-27978-2 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011945108 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5, H.4, I.2, H.3, I.4, I.5

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Preface

Multimedia technologies have recently created the conditions for a true revolution in the cultural heritage area, with reference to the study, valorization, and fruition of artistic works. The use of these technologies allows the creation of new digital cultural experiences by means of personalized and engaging interaction. New multimedia technologies could be used to design new approaches to the comprehension and fruition of the artistic heritage, for example, through smart, context-aware artifacts and enhanced interfaces with the support of features like story-telling, gaming and learning. To these aims, open and flexible platforms are needed, to allow building of services that support the use of cultural resources for research and education. A likely expectation is the involvement of a wider range of users of cultural resources in diverse contexts and considerably altered ways to experience and share cultural knowledge between participants. The First International Workshop on Multimedia for Cultural Heritage (MM4CH 2011) was held in Modena, Italy on May 3, 2011, with the aim of creating a profitable informal working day to discuss hot topics in multimedia, with specific application to cultural heritage. The workshop was particularly successful in bringi