"Exploring visitor personal characteristics and aspects of time in cultural visits"

Using the Falk and Dierking model for cultural visits, we will focus on aspects of temporality. Visitors need support not only during their visit, but also before and after. Different applications that support visitors before and after will be presented. In addition, the same model will be used to explore such issues regarding mixed types of visits, like hybrid, distant, online, etc seeing primarily aspects of synchronous vs. asynchronous visits. Time, however, is also important during the visit, in regards to the duration of the visit and ways to plan accordingly in relation to visitors’ personalities and preferences, length of presented content, time of the day, fitting the cultural visit within a specific time frame, etc. Again, specific examples will be presented. The talk, thus, expects to provide a short introduction into aspects of temporality and visitor needs.

Bio: Angeliki Antoniou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Archival, Library & Information Studies at the University of West Attica specializing in “Adaptive Educational Technologies in Cultural Information”. She has many years of teaching experience (undergraduate and postgraduate level), is a course coordinator in the postgraduate program Cultural Heritage Materials and Technologies of the Department of History, Archeology and Cultural Materials Management at the University of Peloponnese and supervises doctoral dissertations at University College London, University of Peloponnese and University of West Attica. She is a collaborating researcher at the ATHENS Research Center and at the Department of Information Studies at the University College London. She has participated in many national and international research projects and has been the scientific coordinator and member of the steering committee of the European project H2020 CrossCult. She has numerous publications in conferences and international journals, but also organizes scientific conferences and publication of proceedings.

She holds a degree in Preschool Education from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a degree (BSc) in Clinical with Social Psychology (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK), a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Human Interaction with Ergonomics (University College London, UK), a music degree, a Piano Diploma, as well as a PhD in Educational Technologies from the University of Peloponnese, Department of Computer Science and Technology.