Cultural informatics CFP Cultural informatics research and applications: State of the art and open challenges The aim of this workshop is to bring together projects, research groups, stakeholders, independent researchers and practitioners who are active in the broader area of cultural informatics in order to present the current state of affairs, discuss open challenges faced by each one and explore possible collaborations. The ultimate goal is that tools, technologies, know-how, methods and best practices can be exchanged, thus significantly improving our efficiency and management/allocation of public and private resources. The workshop is organized as a part of the EUROMED 2018 conference that will be held in Nicossia, Cyprus from October 29 to November 3, 2018. Agenda 08.30-09.00 Registration 09.00-10.30 Short presentations 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-13.00 IPR/Sustainability-Exploitation-Impact 13.00-14.00 Lunch break 14.00-15.30 Open Challenges 15.30-16.00 Coffee break 16.00-18.30 Ad hoc discussions Confirmed participants CrossCult EU H2020 project EMOTIVE EU H2020 project PLUGGY EU H2020 project ARCHES EU H2020 project I-Media-Cities EU H2020 project PALIMPSEST GR-IT Interreg project WhoLoDancE EU H2020 project GIFT EU H2020 project INCEPTION EU H2020 project ArchAIDE EU H2020 project ViMM EU H2020 CSA project RISE EU H2020 Teaming project UNESCO DCH UNESCO Chair ERA DCH EU ERA Chair KALAMATA 1821 GR national project ΓΑΒ LAB Research group HCI-VR Research group Intelligent Interraction Research Group NETMODE Research Group Issues to be discussed.. ..fall under three broad categories: Humanities Content creation Design of emotionally engaging experiences Experience evaluation and related methodologies & techniques User engagement (pre/post/re -visit) Technology Personalisation Onsite/offsite tools and technologies Authoring tools New forms/enhanced digitization Dissemination / Exploitation Business plans IPR suggestions Living labs Common strategies Publications User recruitment, e.g. adver games Structure The workshop comprises three segments, each one addressing a different goal. For the facilitation of collaboration, a focused meeting to document available expertise, discuss open challenges and seek complementarity and opportunities for cooperation. For scientific dissemination, short presentations in a typical conference setting (at EUROMED 2018). For public dissemination, an open exhibition in which each participant is invited to participate with a demo. Publication The workshop’s proceedings are available as CEUR volume 2235 Organizers Angeliki Antoniou HCI-VR – Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality Lab Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Peloponnese Akadimaikou G. K. Vlachou str 22 131 Tripolis GREECE angelant@uop.gr Manolis Wallace ΓΑΒ LAB – Knowledge and Uncertainty Research Laboratory Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Peloponnese Akadimaikou G. K. Vlachou str 22 131 Tripolis GREECE wallace@uop.gr Program Committee Akrivi Katifori, Athena Research Center George Lepouras, University of Peloponnese Ioanna Lykourentzou, Utrecht University Vassilis Poulopoulos, University of Peloponnese Evgenia Vassilakaki, University of West Attica Costas Vassilakis, University of Peloponnese