Title: HCI x Cultural Heritage: Towards Multiperspectivity & Inclusion

Speaker: Denise Lengyel (Newcastle University , UK)

Bio: Dr Denise Lengyel is an Innovation Fellow within Open Lab at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. She holds a PhD and an MSc, both in Computer Science. Her expertise is in arts-based and creative methods, user experience studies, co-design, receptive and active media work. Denise also worked as a software designer and programmer, for example on a visual storytelling app as a behaviour intervention for children with autism. Her current research projects include Arts in HCI, Tabletop Roleplaying for inclusive design, Self-Organised Learning of young refugees and asylum seekers and Arts Engagement in libraries.

Abstract: During the past two and a half years, Dr Denise Lengyel researched the 'Ageless' citizen, working with participants from primary school to pension age, using arts-based and creative methods. In this talk, she will present a reflection on a project with young refugees and asylum seekers, illuminating 1) how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can contribute to a re-contextualisation of Cultural Heritage (CH) towards multiperspectivity, inclusion and sense-making and 2) the increasing convergence of HCI and CH, with HCI becoming "an integral component of cultural production, dissemination, and preservation", (Hirsch et al., 2024).