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Redefining Access to Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments: Creativity & Cognition 2022 -- Graduate Student Symposium
Audiovisual archives are the mnemonic archives of the 21st century, with
important cultural institutions increasingly digitizing their video
collections. However, these remain mostly inaccessible, due to the sheer amount
of content combined with the lack of innovative forms of engagement through
compelling frameworks for their exploration. The present research therefore
aims at redefining access to large video collections through embodied
experiences in immersive environments. The author claims that, once users are
empowered to be actors of the experience rather than mere spectators, their
creativity is stimulated and narrative can emerge.Comment: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Creativity and Cognitio
Towards immersive generosity: The need for a novel framework to explore large audiovisual archives through embodied experiences in immersive environments
This article proposes an innovative framework to explore large audiovisual
archives using Immersive Environments to place users inside a dataset and
create an embodied experience. It starts by outlining the need for such a novel
interface to meet the needs of archival scholars and the GLAM sector, and
discusses issues in the current modes of access, mostly restrained to
traditional information retrieval systems based on metadata. The paper presents
the concept of ``generous interfaces" as a preliminary approach to address
these issues, and argues some of the key reasons why employing Immersive Visual
Storytelling might benefit such frameworks. The theory of embodiment is
leveraged to justify this claim, showing how a more embodied understanding of a
collection can result in a stronger engagement for the public. By placing users
as actors in the experience rather than mere spectators, the emergence of
narrative is driven by their interactions, with benefits in terms of engagement
with the public and understanding of the cultural component. The framework we
propose is applied to two existing installations to analyze them in-depth and
critique them, highlighting the key directions to pursue for further
development.Comment: This is the pre-published version (after peer-review