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  • Expanding Perspectives to Improve Access to Visual Archives through Multimodal Image Enrichment

    Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Myrsini Samaroudi · 2026 · ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

    This paper addresses a pervasive challenge in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector: large-scale visual collections that have been digitised but remain undiscoverable because they lack descriptive metadata. The authors, from the University of Brighton,…

    cultural heritage · metadata enrichment · AI image classification · FAIR principles · information discovery

  • Access to Interpretation: How Formal Cues Ground Interpretive Alt Text for Paintings

    Vera L. Zhong, Lucy Jiang, Kathryn E. Ringland · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

    This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract examines a gap between mainstream alt text conventions and the interpretive work that paintings are designed to evoke. The authors argue that dominant guidance for alt text foregrounds brevity, objectivity, and functional equivalence — an approach…

    alt text · image description · blind and low vision · museum accessibility · cultural heritage

  • A Preliminary Study of Wearable Olfactory-Thermal Feedback for Immersive VR Cultural Heritage

    Hanbing Wang, Xiang Li, Kexin Nie, Yunfeng Shu, Xizi Liu, Xiwen Liu, Yingying Liu, Zhixin Cai, Mingjie Zhou, Xianqi Wang, Li Zhao, Chunling Wu, Lie Zhang · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

    This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract reports a preliminary between-subjects user study (N=52) of NeckScents, a lightweight neck-worn wearable that delivers short, pre-authored pulses of scented warm airflow near the face to augment audiovisual VR. The authors position the work within…

    virtual reality · multisensory interaction · olfactory display · thermal feedback · cultural heritage

  • Pin City Book: A PCB-based Tangible User Interface for Location-based Puzzle Games

    Yibing Chen, Yutong Liu, Zihan Zhou, Yifan Wang, Sihan Wang, Yunyang Di, Quan Li · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

    This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract introduces Pin City Book, a PCB-based tangible user interface (TUI) platform for location-based puzzle games (LBPGs). The authors argue that current LBPGs are split between paper kits (cumbersome, no feedback) and mobile apps (screen-bound,…

    tangible user interface · multimodal interaction · location-based games · maker accessibility · haptic feedback

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