Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main – 11–13 June 2025 The 2025 LoGaCulture General Assembly brought together project partners and collaborators from across Europe for three days of intensive exchange, reflection, and forward planning. Hosted at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the gathering marked a key milestone in the project’s mission to explore the intersections…
25th-26th July 2025, 10am-4pm, Visitor Reception Barn at Avebury Come to Avebury for the launch of a panoply of locative games! Experience history in and around the ancient landscape with games and stories you can play through your smartphone. During the launch, come and chat with some of the developers and see how these mixed reality…
At this year’s British DiGRA — or Digital Games Research Association — conference, held at Birmingham City University on 20–21 May, Professor Charlie Hargood presented LoGaCulture’s latest work at the intersection of digital games, heritage, and place. Speaking as part of a national conversation on What is British Games Research?, Hargood spotlighted the project’s unique contributions…
Published on the occasion of the Joint Conference on Serious Games (JCSG 2024, which took place in New York City), LoGaCulture researchers Jessica Bitter and Ulrike Spierling present new findings on co-presence and playful interaction in immersive Augmented Reality (AR) for cultural heritage. As museums and cultural heritage sites increasingly adopt immersive technologies, one challenge…
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,…