@conference {poulopoulos2018a,
	title = {The Effect of Social Media Trending Topics Related to Cultural Venues{\textquoteright} Content},
	booktitle = {2018 13th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP)},
	year = {2018},
	month = {sep},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Social media have gained the majority of attention on the Internet having an extreme number of daily visitors worldwide. The amount of information exchanged is vast, while users have become equally producers and consumers of data. Words like {\textquotedblleft}trending{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}influencers{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}likes{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}viral{\textquotedblright} are in the daily agenda of data analyzers, as they are associated with factors that play an important role in the influence of social media content to its audience. These aspects are nowadays strongly taken into account by organizations that want to draw the public{\textquoteright}s attention to the content they deliver, and in this context cultural institutions have already started to take under great consideration not only their presence in social media, but also the exploitation of social media dynamics. In this paper we propose a method that can enable cultural venues to benefit from matches between their own content and ongoing discussions on social media. More specifically we extract trending topics that can be related semantically with the content of a cultural institute and examine how a venue can benefit by exploiting these matches. The proposed algorithm has been developed in the scope of the {\textquotedblleft}CrossCult{\textquotedblright} H2020 project, and has been experimentally tested by analyzing the case of Twitter in Greek language.},
	keywords = {cultural informatics, cultural venues, personalization, social media, trending topics},
	doi = {10.1109/SMAP.2018.8501878},
	author = {Vassilis Poulopoulos and Costas Vassilakis and Manolis Wallace and Angela Antoniou and Giorgos Lepouras}
}
@conference {PoulopoulosGIIS2018,
	title = {ExhiSTORY: IoT in the service of Cultural Heritage},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2018), Special Session on IoT and Cultural Heritage Protection},
	year = {2018},
	month = {oct},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Creating stories for exhibitions is a fascinating and in parallel laborious task. As every exhibition is designed to tell a story, museum curators are responsible for analyzing each exhibit in order to extract messages that form a story and position accordingly the objects in correct order within the museum space. In this context, we analyze how the technological advances in the fields of sensors and the Internet of Things can be utilized in order to construct a {\textquotedblleft}smart space{\textquotedblright}, where exhibits can communicate with the visitors and to each other and can be organized automatically so that they can generate rich, personalized, coherent and highly stimulating experiences. We present the architecture of the system named {\textquotedblleft}exhiSTORY{\textquotedblright}, that intends to provide the appropriate infrastructure to be used in museums and places where exhibitions are held, in order to support smart exhibits. We discuss and analyze the architecture of the system and the ways of its application in a cultural space.},
	doi = {10.1109/GIIS.2018.8635759},
	author = {Vassilis Poulopoulos and Costas Vassilakis and Angela Antoniou and Manolis Wallace and Giorgos Lepouras and Martin Lopez Nores}
}
@article {Vassilakis_fgcs17,
	title = {exhiSTORY: Smart Exhibits That Tell Their Own Stories},
	journal = {Future Generation of Computer Systems},
	volume = {81},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {542-556},
	abstract = {Museum exhibitions are designed to tell a story; this story is woven by curators and in its context a particular aspect of each exhibit, fitting to the message that the story is intended to convey, is highlighted. Adding new exhibits to the story requires curators to identify for each exhibit its aspects that fit to the message of the story and position the exhibit at the right place in the story thread. The availability of rich semantic information for exhibits, allows for exploiting the wealth of meanings that museum exhibits express, enabling the automated or semi-automated generation of practically countless stories that can be told. Personalization algorithms can then be employed to choose from these stories the ones most suitable for each individual user, based on the semantics of the stories and information within the user profile. In this work we examine how opportunities arising from technological advances in the fields of IoT and semantics can be used to develop smart, self-organizing exhibits that cooperate with each other and provide visitors with comprehensible, rich, diverse, personalized and highly stimulating experiences. These notions are included in the design of a system named exhiSTORY, which also exploits previously ignored information and identifies previously unseen semantic links. We present the architecture of the system and discuss its application potential.},
	keywords = {Cultural heritage, IoT, personalization, Quality of Experience (QoE), Self-organizing exhibitions, semantics},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.10.038},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X17324093},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Vassilis Poulopoulos and Angela Antoniou and Manolis Wallace and Giorgos Lepouras and Martin Lopez Nores}
}
@conference {antoniouEuromed2017,
	title = {Experiences from the development of thematic itineraries in three Greek museums (Greek title: Εμπειρίες από την ανάπτυξη θεματικών διαδρομών σε τρία Ελληνικά μουσεία)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd PanHellenic conference on Cultural Heritage (Euromed 2017)},
	year = {2017},
	month = {12},
	abstract = {Private museums, as well as a considerable number of public regional museums, are confined by the small exhibition space and the relatively small number of exhibits and therefore cannot develop multiple exhibitions to satisfy visitors with different interests and characteristics. In this paper we report on our experieces from developing multiple thematic itineraries in the Tegea Folklore Museum , in the Cretan open-air museum "Lychnostatis" in Heraclion, and in the Panarcadic Archaeological Museum of Tripolis. The thematic itineraries in the Tegea Folklore Museum are (a) space (b) technology and (c) clothing. In the Cretan open-air museum "Lychnostatis", the itineraries are (a) natural sciences,(b) popular art, (c) pre-industrial technology and (d) folklore. In the Panarcadic Archaeological Museum of Tripolis we have the following itineraries: (a) appearance/clothing, (b) mortality, (c) nudity, (d) religion, (e) social status, (f) education, (g) healing practices and (h) everyday life. Each itinerary exploits a subset of the available exhibits to present a selected subject and is adapted to the needs of a predetermined and focused group of the general public. The results from the application of the approach, insofar, have shown that this is a promising path, both regarding the better exploitation of the space and the exhibits of the small museums, as well as regarding the better adaptation to the interests of the visitors.},
	author = {Angela Antoniou and Costas Vassilakis and Manolis Wallace and Giorgos Lepouras and Vassilis Poulopoulos}
}
