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 and project coordinator Valentina Nisi, authored four research papers that covered the entangled relationships between humans and nonhuman worlds across different natureculture sites on land and sea:
- Natureculture Probes: Opening up dialogues in natural heritage(s) landscapes (Anna Bertmark and Mathilde Gouin et al.): This pictorial paper introduces Natureculture Probes, an innovative tool designed to enhance visitor engagement at heritage sites through participatory methods.
- From Visual Sketching to Knotted Figurations: Fabulating in the Contact Zone (Valentina Nisi, Mathilde Gouin, Marta Ferreira et al.): This pictorial paper advances speculative design and fabulation through post-anthropocentric practices using visual sketching, embodied noticing, and indexing more-than-human perspectives and interactions.
- The entangled tales that landscapes tell: An embodied HCI pedagogy for re-enchanted nature walks (Pedro Galvão-Ferreira et al.): This paper investigates how nature walks are experienced, and how these embodied encounters with nature might inform the development of digital technologies that enhance nature walks.
- Echo of the Abyss: Understanding More-than-human Interconnectedness in the Deep Sea Through Virtual Reality Experiences (Beatrice Maggipinto, Yanick Trindade, Jessica Hammer, Nuno Jardim Nunes and Valentina Nisi): This pictorial paper presents Echo of the Abyss (EotA), a Virtual Reality (VR) experience that immerses users in a simulated deep-sea dive.
These papers advance LoGaCulture’s goal of engaging ever more diverse audiences with natural and cultural heritage across its multitudinous dimensions.