IAFeS International Conference NETTIES Digital Culture and Heritage & AugmentedWearEdu Workshops

Program Netties & Digital Culture and Heritage & AugmentedWearEdu workshops

25 – 26 May 2023
Timisoara, Romania and Online

Organised jointly by
Politehnica University of Timisoara
International Association for eScience – IAFeS
E³UDRES² European Universities Alliance

Theme
Digital Society:
Synergies between Arts, Culture and Digital Technologies

Thursday 25 May 2023, 09:00 – 17:45 (EET)
Location: Polivalent Room, UPT Library, Bul. Vasile Parvan no. 2B, Timisoara
& Online – please register here for Zoomhttps://upt-ro.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__wTcq1TOTmiLtFukiTKycw

09:00 – 09:15 Opening
Prof. Radu Vasiu – IAFeS President, President of Politehnica University of Timisoara Senate, Multimedia Center Director
Conf. Florin Dragan – Rector, Politehnica University of Timisoara
Prof. Johann Gunther – General Secretary, IAFeS – presentation of IAFeS

09:15 – 10:45 Digital Technologies of Society
9:15 – 9:30 Radu Vasiu, Romania, European Universities strategies for Creative Industries
9:30 – 9:45 Johann Gunther, Austria, Transhumanism
9:45 – 10:00 Hannes Raffaseder, Austria, Compose, Orchestrate & Interprete – A musical approach to strategy and further development of higher education institutions (online)
10:00 – 10:15 Matthias Gelbmann, Austria, The dangers of modern AI
10:15 – 10:30 Felix Edelmann, Austria, ChatGPT from a user perspective
10:30 – 10:45 Pekka Silvén, Finland, From the current status to speculative design and scenarios – inspired by the results
10:45 – 11:00 Fredrik Stohm Kronfeld, Sweden, Digital culture, art and environment

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 – 13:00 AugmentedWearEdu WorkshoprEdu Workshop
11:15 – 11:35 Filippo Sanfilippo, University of Agder, Norway, A Haptic-enabled Framework for Hands-on e-Learning to Facilitate Safe, Digital Access to Laboratories in the Metaverse, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu
11:35 – 11:50 Francisco Silva, University of Minho, Portugal, Immersive Learning and its Technologies, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu
11:50 – 12:05 Tomas Blažauskas, Egle Butkeviciute, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, Virtual Reality for kinesthetic learning, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu
12:05 – 12:20 Silviu Vert, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, Augmented reality technologies for immersive learning, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu
12:20 – 12:35 Gionata Salvietti, University of Siena, Italy, Haptics for Learning, Erasmus+ Augmented WearEdu
12:35 – 13:00 Sabin Serban, Ioana Calinescu, Augmented Space Agency, Romania, Museum of Abandonment; Immersive technologies in artistic and educational applications

14:00 – 15:30 Digital Culture and Heritage Workshop
14:00 – 14:15 Diana Andone, Spotlight Heritage Timisoara
14:15 – 14:35 Antonella Poce, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Museum and Cultural mediation and the new technologies
14:35 – 14:55 Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University, USA, Meet me in the Metaverse
14:55 – 15:15 Ingrid  Kristensen Bjornali, Independent Artist, Norway, Nature and technology
15:15 – 15:30 Filippo Sanfilippo, University of Agder, Norway, A Low-Cost Multi-Modal Auditory-Visual-Tactile Framework for Remote Touch

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00 Digital Culture and Heritage Workshop
15:45 – 16:00 Pekka Silvén, Finland, Edukamu – another LMS – why
16:00 – 16:15 Cristian Blidariu, UPT, Romania, Creative Campus
16:15 – 16:30 Sorina Jecza, Triade Foundation & Jecza Gallery, Romania, Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
16:30 – 16:45 Guenter Koch, Konstantinos Kalemis, Konstantina Kallini, Austria, Greece, Introducing Sustainability Management in SMEs – Resolving a Conflict Between Large and Small Companies (online)
16:45 – 17:00 Konstantinos Kalemis, Konstantina Kallini, Greece, Strategies for Managing and Utilizing Human Resources in Times of Prolonged Crisis (online)

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Friday 26 May 2023, 10:00 – 16:30 (EET)

10:00 – 17:00
visits Spotlight Heritage Timisoara – Parallel Worlds Exhibition, National Museum of Banat, Bastion Theresia

Victor Brauner – Inventions and Magic, National Art Museum
International Digital Culture & Spotlight Heritage Festival – Science and Tech Playground, ExperimentariumTM and UPT Technical Museum
International Digital Culture & Spotlight Heritage Festival – Electro Atrium – Culture Fun Space
International Digital Culture & Spotlight Heritage Festival – Cazarma U – Digital Culture Space