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This past week, LoGaCulture researchers presented their latest work at the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2025 Conference (FDG25), exploring how storytelling techniques from genre fiction can transform location-based cultural heritage experiences. The paper — titled “Temporal Collisions: On the Use of Narrative Conventions from Genre Fiction for Location-Based Cultural Heritage Games” and authored by Mads Haahr…

LoGaCulture took the spotlight at SciComPT 2025, Portugal’s largest science communication conference, where 175 science communicators came together to explore the future of public engagement with science. The research collective from the LoGaCulture project, with teams based in Lisbon and Funchal, presented a trio of thought-provoking activities that blended design, ecology, technology, and education, reinforcing…

A new LoGaCulture study is reshaping how visitors interact with heritage sites, blending digital innovation with sensory experiences to foster deeper connections with nature and culture. The research — published as a pictorial in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’25) titled Natureculture Probes: Opening up dialogues in…

Five LoGaCulture researchers presented their work at ACM 2025 International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI’25), taking place in Bordeaux, France, 04-07 March 2025. Straddling two sessions — Elemental & Biomaterial and Spirituality, Nature, and Place — PhD students Anna Bertmark, Mathilde Gouin, postdoctoral researchers Marta Ferreira and Pedro Galvão-Ferreira, and principal investigator…

At the 2024 Academic Mindtrek Conference, LoGaCulture researchers presented a novel study exploring how digital technology — particularly locative games (LGs) — can transform our engagement with cultural and natural heritage sites. Their paper, Posthumanist Care and Ecologies of Empathy: Investigating Design Potentials for Nature:Culture HCI, examines how interactive experiences might foster a deeper sense of…

Mixed Reality (MR) games, blending physical spaces with digital content, have transformed how we experience places and interact with technology. From the global phenomenon of Pokémon Go! to immersive heritage tours, these games offer a unique fusion of storytelling, exploration, and play. But as they reshape our world, they also raise urgent ethical questions. The Ethics of…

This week, on 21 October 2024, the LoGaCulture project hosted its 4th General assembly (GA), chaired by Valentina Nisi (Interactive Technologies Institute, Instituto Superior Técnico) and David Millard (University of Southampton). Taking place biannually, once live and another online, the LoGaCulture GAs mark key milestones for the LoGaCulture project, offering the international team a vital…

This week, LoGaCulture is present at the Academic Mindtrek 2024 conference in Tampere, Finland. Researcher Pedro Galvão-Ferreira presented the research paper Posthumanist Care and Ecologies of Empathy: Investigating Design Potentials for Nature:Culture HCI, which investigates how locative games (LGs) can enhance engagement with the natural and cultural heritage of the UNESCO-protected Levada walks on Madeira Island. As the study explores the nature-culture continuum,…

What new possibilities can immersive augmented reality (AR) technology offer to enhancing educational experiences in museums? A study conducted by LoGaCulture partners Ulrike Spierling, Jessica Bitter and Yu Liu (Hochschule RheinMain) and Thorolf Müller (Senckenberg Natural History Museum) asked exactly that question. As 109 museum visitors tested a prototype application for Microsoft HoloLens 2, showcasing…

Three LoGaCulture researchers have presented their work this week at the ACM Narrative and Hypertext 2024 Conference (NHT’24). As part of the longest running workshop series at NHT (running since 2011), LoGaCulture Principal Investigators Charlie Hargood and David Millard organised this year’s session on the theme “The Ethics of Mixed Reality Narrative Hypertext.” This workshop,…

LoGaCulture researchers from the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI, Portugal) and Hochschule RheinMain (HRM, Germany) convened this week in Madeira Island, hosted by the Natural History Museum of Funchal (NHMF). This three-day meeting, which included the Museum director, Dr. Ricardo Arrujo, and Curator, Dr. Carolina Ornelas, brought together interdisciplinary work on cultural heritage and interactive technologies,…

Transmedia storytelling is a narrative technique in which a single story, or story experience, is told across multiple platforms and formats — from books, films and television, to comics, video games, social media and more. The goal is that each medium contributes uniquely to the story, offering a distinct and complementary perspective that enriches the…