TY - CPAPER
KW - Cultural assets
KW - Cultural heritages
KW - Hospitals
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Intangible cultural heritages
KW - Mobile applications
KW - Mobile applications
KW - Mobile computing
KW - Multimedia materials
KW - Oral Witnesses
KW - storytelling
KW - Tuscany
KW - Italy
AU - Alessandro Pozzebon
AU - Silvia Calamai
AB - The aim of this paper is to present the realization of a mobile application as a support to the visit to the former psychiatric hospitals in the cities of Siena and Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. Due to the unique nature of the place to be recounted, the design phase of the application has paid special attention to the definition of the multimedia material to be provided to the users: Through the use of oral sources, i.e. interviews with the former hospital employees collected over the last 15 years, the app tries to implement the paradigm of Augmented Cultural Heritage, enriching the visit to a Tangible Cultural Site-The hospital-with additional Intangible Cultural Assets, in this case the narrations made by the people who experienced in first person the life inside a psychiatric hospital.
C2 - Proc. Digit. Herit. Int. Congr., Digital Heritage - Held jointly Int. Conf. Virtual Syst. Multimed., VSMM
DO - 10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2018.8810005
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Proc. Digit. Herit. Int. Congr., Digital Heritage - Held jointly Int. Conf. Virtual Syst. Multimed., VSMM
N2 - The aim of this paper is to present the realization of a mobile application as a support to the visit to the former psychiatric hospitals in the cities of Siena and Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. Due to the unique nature of the place to be recounted, the design phase of the application has paid special attention to the definition of the multimedia material to be provided to the users: Through the use of oral sources, i.e. interviews with the former hospital employees collected over the last 15 years, the app tries to implement the paradigm of Augmented Cultural Heritage, enriching the visit to a Tangible Cultural Site-The hospital-with additional Intangible Cultural Assets, in this case the narrations made by the people who experienced in first person the life inside a psychiatric hospital.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
SN - 9781728102924 (ISBN)
SP - 257
EP - 260
TI - Madmen s Voices: Discovering Former Psychiatric Hospitals via Mobile Application
ER -