@inproceedings{IASDR2021,

title = {People-Place Interactions: From Pictures and Stories to Places and Sense of Place},

author = {Vanessa Cesário and Albert Acedo and Nuno Jardim Nunes and Valentina Nisi},

url = {https://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/iasdr2021/program/},

doi = {10.1145/3462203.3475911},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research},

pages = {145–150},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {Hong-Kong, China},

abstract = {The emergence of a networked society generates transformations in the dynamic interactions of people impacting cultural and service systems. A location can provide different individual and collective meanings, perceptions, and experiences to different people. However, it is unclear how urban actors can collect, measure, and operationalise such place-based knowledge. Thus, this work addresses the Social-Design Modes theme from the IASDR community, rethinking how urban actors can interpret place-based knowledge from a given community. This research evaluates the potential of an exploratory method involving photo-based storytelling to unpack key factors associated with a place. Geographic Information Systems support the approach in order to transfer complex subjective experiences into simple and unique geographical representations. We provide empirical evidence of how this method operationalises individual and collective place-based knowledge through two study cases. This method merges design with the ‘social’ to respond to pressing social questions by urban actors. The methodological implications encountered through this process may act as guidelines to inform practitioners in related fields and other areas of knowledge.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nisi2021impalpable,

title = {Impalpable Narratives: How to capture intangible cultural heritage of migrant communities},

author = {Valentina Nisi and Hollie Bostock and Vanessa Cesário and Albert Acedo and Nuno Nunes},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies-Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech},

pages = {109--120},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Cesário2020,

title = {Teenage Visitor Experience: Classification of Behavioral Dynamics in Museums},

author = {Vanessa Cesário and Daniela Petrelli and Valentina Nisi},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376334},

doi = {10.1145/3313831.3376334},

isbn = {9781450367080},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-04-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},

pages = {1-13},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {New York, NY, USA},

series = {CHI '20},

abstract = {Teenagers' engagement in museums is much talked about but little research has been done to understand their behavior and inform design. Findings from co-design sessions with teenagers suggested they value games and stories when thinking about enjoyable museum tours. Informed by these findings and working with a natural history museum, we designed: a story-based tour (Turning Point) and a game-based tour (Haunted Encounters), informed by similar content. The two strategies were evaluated with 78 teenagers (15-19 years old) visiting the museum as part of an educational school trip. We assessed teenagers' personality in class; qualitative and quantitative data on their engagement, experience, and usability of the apps were collected at the museum. The triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data show personality traits mapping into different behaviors. We offer implications for the design of museum apps targeted to teenagers, a group known as difficult to reach.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/chiplay/CesarioCN19,

title = {"This Is Nice but That Is Childish": Teenagers Evaluate Museum-Based 

 Digital Experiences Developed by Cultural Heritage Professionals},

author = {Vanessa Cesário and António Coelho and Valentina Nisi},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {CHI PLAY (Companion)},

pages = {159--169},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}