@article {845,
	title = {Virtual Cultural Experiences for the Elderly: Formative Studies and First Findings Regarding Cultural Content},
	journal = {Applied Sciences},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2025},
	month = {February},
	pages = {1820},
	abstract = {<p>In societies with aging populations, the active participation of elders in all aspects of societal life is crucial. Cultural heritage provides a rich vehicle for engaging elders, stimulating both cognitive and affective responses, and keeping human brains active. This study focused on gathering requirements for creating content for virtual cultural experiences. Specifically, participants were shown various images and a film, and their self-reported thoughts and emotions were collected. The images were chosen by experts for the specific emotions they could trigger. The same images were analyzed with sentiment analysis software and finally given to the elders to express their emotions. The results of sentiment analysis, the analysis of experts, and the data from the participants were compared, showing differences between the perceived emotions. Regarding the historical film, the participants discussed the main emotions they experienced. The results were analyzed to extract guidelines for the content creation of VR applications.</p>
},
	keywords = {content requirements, elders, Virtual reality},
	issn = {2076-3417},
	doi = {10.3390/app15041820},
	author = {Antoniou, Angeliki and Vassilakis, Costas and Kantianis, Georgios and Sylaiou, Stella and Kolokithas, George}
}
@conference {Daradimos2008141,
	title = {WhereRU: GPS position reporting and a personal ontology as a virtual community utility},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2008},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By (since 1996) 0},
	month = {6},
	pages = {141-146},
	abstract = {The recent progress of the World Wide Web has created new needs for information sharing in virtual communities. WhereRU is a multiuser GPS position reporting system that allows users to make their location publicly available as well as associate it with information on places, persons and events that may later also serve as reminders of the their experiences when traveling.},
	keywords = {Communication, Global positioning system, Gps positions, Information science, Information sharing, Internet, Multiuser, Ontology, Personal ontologies, Position reporting, Recent progresses, Reporting systems, Satellite navigation aids, Virtual communities, Virtual reality, Web community, World Wide Web},
	doi = {10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632102},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57349094004\&partnerID=40\&md5=4eaed4757acf5c4da8b292275b92a73a},
	author = {I. Daradimos and Akrivi Katifori and Costas Vassilakis}
}
@conference {Charitos2001284,
	title = {Designing a virtual museum within a museum},
	booktitle = {Proceedings VAST 2001 Virtual Reality, Archeology, and Cultural Heritage},
	year = {2001},
	note = {cited By (since 1996) 0},
	month = {11},
	pages = {284},
	abstract = {The designing of a virtual museum within a museum was discussed. In regard with it, the Virtual Museum project sponsored by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology was presented. The project{\textquoteright}s main objective was to create a virtual environment (VE) for enhancing the experience of visiting a museum by affording view and manipulation of certain exhibits.},
	keywords = {Information retrieval systems, Internet, Museums, Technical presentations, Three dimensional computer graphics, Virtual museum, Virtual reality},
	doi = {10.1145/584993.585043},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0141426770\&partnerID=40\&md5=50066081a4e5d55bfc3c823813535add},
	author = {D. Charitos and Giorgos Lepouras and Costas Vassilakis and Akrivi Katifori and Charissi, A. and Halatsi, L.},
	editor = {S. N. Spencer}
}
