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Darányi, Sándor
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Maceviciute, E., Olson, N., Darányi, S., Georgiou, G. & Anastasovitis, E. (2024). Inclusive Cultural Heritage Museum for People with Disabilities: Results of Research in MuseIT. In: : . Paper presented at Seventeenth International Conference on Inclusive Museum, 15-17 September, 2024, Vienna, Austria.
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2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The MuseIT EU project aims to co-design, develop, and co-evaluate a multisensory, user-centred platform for enriched and inclusive engagement with cultural assets. It follows equal opportunity for all as its core principle. There is a market niche for an improved understanding of disability and diversity of needs to facilitate and broaden accessibility when developing technological systems for the digital transformation of the cultural heritage museums. 

MuseIT explores these needs in close contact with people with disabilities in co-design and co-research processes. The project focuses on the development of digital technologies to represent cultural heritage artefacts in multiple modalities by focusing on detecting semantic content about cultural heritage objects and translating their semantic content to knowledge graphs that are further used to create multisensory representations of them. 

These developments include the idea of a haptogram vocabulary with static vs. dynamic patterns carrying word vs. sentence meaning mapped to the body. One version of the vocabulary rethinks patterns from Social Haptic Communication (SHC), employed in co-design with users by our tool called HaptoDesigner. The other version automatically converts a high number of precomputed word embeddings to haptic signals for the Unitouch pattern design studio. While holding the promise to translate cultural heritage objects to the tactile domain, work in progress is also exploring conceptual vs. technological bottlenecks to enable their presentation in the context of a virtual museum.

MuseIT also explores the options of cultural objects in other modes, e.g. converting an image to sound, presenting 3D tactile representations and including these possibilities into virtual inclusive museum exhibitions.

Keywords
inclusive cultural heritage, multisensory art objects, disability, digital museum exhibitions, inclusive methodologies, MuseIT
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-32732 (URN)
Conference
Seventeenth International Conference on Inclusive Museum, 15-17 September, 2024, Vienna, Austria
Projects
MuseIT
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 101061441
Available from: 2024-11-01 Created: 2024-11-01 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Hagedorn, J. & Darányi, S. (2022). Bearing a Bag-of-Tales: An Open Corpus of Annotated Folktales for Reproducible Research. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 8(16)
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2022 (English)In: Journal of Open Humanities Data, E-ISSN 2059-481X, Vol. 8, no 16Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Motifs in folktales and myths have been identified and articulated by scholars, and the computational identification and discovery of such motifs is an area of ongoing research. Achieving this goal means meeting scientific requirements (that methods be comparable and replicable) and requirements for collaboration (that multi-disciplinary teams can reliably access data). To support those requirements, access to consistent reference datasets is needed. Unfortunately, these datasets are not openly available in a format that supports their use in data science. Here we report work in progress toward this goal, having converted the Ashliman Folktexts collection into a public dataset of annotated tale texts. The data can be accessed at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6575263.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Ubiquity Press, 2022
Keywords
annotated folktales, motifs, reproducible research, machine learning, version control
National Category
Computer Sciences Information Systems
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-28501 (URN)10.5334/johd.78 (DOI)001208115300001 ()2-s2.0-85136270561 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-09-07 Created: 2022-09-07 Last updated: 2024-10-01Bibliographically approved
Pastor-Sánchez, J.-A., Darányi, S. & Kontopoulos, E. (2022). Expressing Significant Others by Gravitation in the Ontology of Greek Mythology. In: Emmanouel Garoufallou, María-Antonia Ovalle-Perandones, Andreas Vlachidis (Ed.), Metadata and Semantic Research: 15th International Conference, MTSR 2021, Virtual Event, November 29 – December 3, 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Paper presented at 15th International Conference, MTSR 2021, Virtual Event, November 29 – December 3, 2021 (pp. 224-235).
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2022 (English)In: Metadata and Semantic Research: 15th International Conference, MTSR 2021, Virtual Event, November 29 – December 3, 2021, Revised Selected Papers / [ed] Emmanouel Garoufallou, María-Antonia Ovalle-Perandones, Andreas Vlachidis, 2022, p. 224-235Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

To help close the gap between folksonomic knowledge vs. digital classical philology, based on a perceived analogy between Newtonian mechanics and evolving semantic spaces, we tested a new conceptual framework in a specific domain, the Ontology of Greek Mythology (OGM). The underlying Wikidata-based public dataset has 5377 entities with 289 types of relations, out of which 34 were used for its construction. To visualize the influence structure of a subset of 771 divine actors by other means than the force-directed placement of graph nodes, we expressed the combination of semantic relatedness plus objective vs. relative importance of these entities by their gravitational behaviour. To that end, the metaphoric equivalents of distance, mass, force, gravitational potential, and gravitational potential energy were applied, with the latter interpreted as the structuration capacity of nodes. The results were meaningful to the trained eye, but, given the very high number of contour maps and heatmaps available by our public tool, their systematic evaluation lies ahead.

Keywords
Ontology, Knowledge graph, Greek mythology, Gravitation, Wikidata
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science; Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-29320 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-98876-0_20 (DOI)000934018400020 ()2-s2.0-85128491264 (Scopus ID)
Conference
15th International Conference, MTSR 2021, Virtual Event, November 29 – December 3, 2021
Available from: 2023-01-17 Created: 2023-01-17 Last updated: 2024-02-01Bibliographically approved
Darányi, S., Olson, N., Lindell, E., Persson, N.-K., Riga, M., Kontopoulos, E. & Kompatsiaris, I. (2020). Communicating Semantic Content to Persons with Deafblindness by Haptograms and Smart Textiles: Theoretical Approach and Methodology. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 13(1&2), 103-113
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2020 (English)In: International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, E-ISSN 1942-2679, Vol. 13, no 1&2, p. 103-113Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

By means of a proof-of-concept prototype, which is work in progress, we adopted a multidisciplinary approach to develop a smart-textile-based communication system for use by people with deafblindness. In this system, sensor technologies and computer vision are used to detect environmental cues such as presence of obstacles, faces, objects, etc. Focusing on the communication module here, a new ontology connects visual analytics with the user to label detected semantic content about objects, persons and situations for navigation and situational awareness. Such labelled content is then translated to a haptogram vocabulary with static vs. dynamic patterns, which are mapped to the body. A haptogram denotes a tactile symbol composed over a touchscreen, its dynamic nature referring to the act of writing or drawing. A vest made of smart textile, in the current variant equipped with a 4 x 4 grid of vibrotactile actuators, is used to transmit haptograms on the user’s back. Thereby system messages of different complexity -- both alerts and short sentences -- can be received by the user, who then has the option to respond by pre-coded questions and messages. By means of grids with more actuators, displays with higher resolution can be implemented and tested, paving the way for an extended haptogram vocabulary, covering more detailed ontology content.

Keywords
deafblind communication, haptograms, word and sentence semantics, ontology, smart textiles
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23904 (URN)
Projects
SUITCEYES
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 780814
Note

This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020research and innovation programme under grant agreementNo 780814 SUITCEYES.

Available from: 2020-10-11 Created: 2020-10-11 Last updated: 2024-04-26Bibliographically approved
Darányi, S., Olson, N., Riga, M., Kontopoulos, E. & Kompatsiaris, I. (2019). Static and Dynamic Haptograms to Communicate Semantic Content: Towards Enabling Face-to-Face Communication for People with Deafblindness. In: Tim vor der Brück, Efstratios Kontopoulos (Ed.), ThinkMind// SEMAPRO, International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing: . Paper presented at SEMAPRO 2019, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, Porto, September 22-26, 2019.. Porto, Portugal: International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA)
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2019 (English)In: ThinkMind// SEMAPRO, International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing / [ed] Tim vor der Brück, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Porto, Portugal: International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), 2019Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Based on the ontology developed in the ongoing SUITCEYES EU-funded project to bridge visual analytics for situational awareness and navigation with semantic labelling of environmental cues, we designed a set of static and dynamic haptograms to represent concepts for two-way communication between deafblind and non-deafblind users. A haptogram corresponds to a tactile symbol drawn over a touchscreen, its dynamic nature referring to the act of writing or drawing, where the touchscreen can take several forms, including a smart textile screen designated for specific areas on the body. In its current version, our haptogram set is generated over a 4 x 4 matrix of cells and is displayed on the back of the user, tested for robustness at the receiving end. The concepts and concept sequences simulating simple questions and answers represented by haptograms are focused on ontology content for now but can be scaled up.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Porto, Portugal: International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), 2019
Keywords
deafblind communication; conceptual haptograms; word and sentence semantics; ontology.
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-22588 (URN)978-1-61208-738-2 (ISBN)
Conference
SEMAPRO 2019, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, Porto, September 22-26, 2019.
Projects
SUITCEYES
Note

This paper received a best paper award: https://suitceyes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/semapro2019_a2-1.pdf

Available from: 2020-01-17 Created: 2020-01-17 Last updated: 2020-01-23Bibliographically approved
Kiraly, L., Kiraly, B., Szigeti, K., Tamas, C. Z. & Darányi, S. (2019). Virtual museum of congenital heart defects: digitization and establishment of a database for cardiac specimens.. Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 9(1), 115-126
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2019 (English)In: Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, ISSN 2223-4292, Vol. 9, no 1, p. 115-126Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Education and training of morphology for medical students, and professionals specializing in pediatric cardiology and surgery has traditionally been based on hands-on encounter with congenitally malformed cardiac specimens. Large international archives are no longer widely available due to stricter data protection rules, a reduced number of autopsies, attrition rate of existing specimens, and most importantly due to a higher survival rate of patients. Our Cardiac Archive houses about 400 cardiac specimens with congenital heart disease. The collection spans almost 60 years and thus goes back to pre-surgical era. Unfortunately, attrition rate due to desiccation has led to an increased natural decay in recent years. The present multi-institutional project focuses on saving the collection by digitization. Specimens are scanned by high-resolution micro-CT/MRI. Virtual 3D-models are segmented and a comprehensive database is built. We now report an initial feasibility study with six test specimens that provided promising results, however, adequate presentation of the intracardiac anatomy, including septa and cardiac valves requires further refinements. Computer assisted design methods are necessary to overcome consequences of pathological examination, shrinkage and/or distortion of the specimens. For a next step, we anticipate an expandable web-based virtual museum with interactive reference and training tools. Web access for professional third parties will be provided by registration/subscription. In a future phase, segmental wall motion data could be added to virtual models. 3D-printed models may replace actual specimens and serve as hands-on surgical training to elucidate complex morphologies, promote surgical emulation, and extract more accurate procedural knowledge based on such a collection.

Keywords
Congenital abnormalities, anatomic, imaging, three-dimensional, interactive learning, models, multimodal imaging
National Category
Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems Information Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-22598 (URN)10.21037/qims.2018.12.05 (DOI)000456878900013 ()30788253 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85061211752 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-01-20 Created: 2020-01-20 Last updated: 2020-01-22Bibliographically approved
Darányi, S., Wittek, P., Konstantinidis, K., Papadopoulos, S. & Kontopoulos, E. (2016). A Physical Metaphor to Study Semantic Drift. In: Proceedings of SuCCESS-16, 1st International Workshop on Semantic Change & Evolving Semantics: . Paper presented at 1st International Workshop on Semantic Change & Evolving Semantics, Leipzig, September 12, 2016. , 1695
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2016 (English)In: Proceedings of SuCCESS-16, 1st International Workshop on Semantic Change & Evolving Semantics, 2016, Vol. 1695Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In accessibility tests for digital preservation, over time we experience drifts of localized and labelled content in statistical models of evolving semantics represented as a vector field. This articulates the need to detect, measure, interpret and model outcomes of knowledge dynamics. To this end we employ a high-performance machine learning algorithm for the training of extremely large emergent self-organizing maps for exploratory data analysis. The working hypothesis we present here is that the dynamics of semantic drifts can be modeled on a relaxed version of Newtonian mechanics called social mechanics. By using term distances as a measure of semantic relatedness vs. their PageRank values indicating social importance and applied as variable ‘term mass’, gravitation as a metaphor to express changes in the semantic content of a vector field lends a new perspective for experimentation. From ‘term gravitation’ over time, one can compute its generating potential whose fluctuations manifest modifications in pairwise term similarity vs. social importance, thereby updating Osgood’s semantic differential. The dataset examined is the public catalog metadata of Tate Galleries, London.

National Category
Other Computer and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-11648 (URN)978-1-4503-2138-9 (ISBN)
Conference
1st International Workshop on Semantic Change & Evolving Semantics, Leipzig, September 12, 2016
Available from: 2017-01-05 Created: 2017-01-05 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved
Kontopoulos, E., Darányi, S., Wittek, P., Konstantinidis, K., Riga, M., Mitzias, P., . . . Avgerinakis, K. (2016). Deliverable 4.5: Context-aware Content Interpretation. PERICLES project
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2016 (English)Report (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The current deliverable summarises the work conducted within task T4.5 of WP4, presenting our proposed approaches for contextualised content interpretation, aimed at gaining insightful contextualised views on content semantics. This is achieved through the adoption of appropriate context-aware semantic models developed within the project, and via enriching the semantic descriptions with background knowledge, deriving thus higher level contextualised content interpretations that are closer to human perception and appraisal needs. More specifically, the main contributions of the deliverable are the following: A theoretical framework using physics as a metaphor to develop different models of evolving semantic content. A set of proof-of-concept models for semantic drifts due to field dynamics, introducing two methods to identify quantum-like (QL) patterns in evolving information searching behaviour, and a QL model akin to particle-wave duality for semantic content classification. Integration of two specific tools, Somoclu for drift detection and Ncpol2spda for entanglement detection. An “energetic” hypothesis accounting for contextualized evolving semantic structures over time. A proposed semantic interpretation framework, integrating (a) an ontological inference scheme based on Description Logics (DL), (b) a rule-based reasoning layer built on SPARQL Inference Notation (SPIN), (c) an uncertainty management framework based on non-monotonic logics. A novel scheme for contextualized reasoning on semantic drift, based on LRM dependencies and OWL’s punning mechanism. An implementation of SPIN rules for policy and ecosystem change management, with the adoption of LRM preconditions and impacts. Specific use case scenarios demonstrate the context under development and the efficiency of the approach. Respective open-source implementations and experimental results that validate all the above.All these contributions are tightly interlinked with the other PERICLES work packages: WP2 supplies the use cases and sample datasets for validating our proposed approaches, WP3 provides the models (LRM and Digital Ecosystem models) that form the basis for our semantic representations of content and context, WP5 provides the practical application of the technologies developed to preservation processes, while the tools and algorithms presented in this deliverable can be deployed in combination with test scenarios, which will be part of the WP6 test beds.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
PERICLES project, 2016. p. 101
Keywords
semantic drift, concept drift, contextualisation, ontologies, quantum-like systems
National Category
Communication Systems Computer Systems Interaction Technologies Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified Information Systems, Social aspects Media Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-11753 (URN)
Projects
PERICLES
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, 601138
Available from: 2017-01-10 Created: 2017-01-10 Last updated: 2017-03-08Bibliographically approved
Waddington, S., Hedges, M., Riga, M., Mitzias, P., Kontopoulos, E., Kompatsiaris, I., . . . McNeill, J. (2016). PERICLES – Digital Preservation through Management of Change in Evolving Ecosystems.. In: Hamriouni, S. (Ed.), The Success of European Projects Using New Information and Communication Technologies: . Paper presented at European Project Space (EPS) event organized in Colmar, July 2015,associated with the set of conferences ICETE (12th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications), ICSOFT (10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies), SIMULTECH (5th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications) and DATA (4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications). (pp. 51-74). Setubal, Portugal
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2016 (English)In: The Success of European Projects Using New Information and Communication Technologies / [ed] Hamriouni, S., Setubal, Portugal, 2016, p. 51-74Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Management of change is essential to ensure the long-term reusabilityof digital assets. Change can be brought about in many ways, includingthrough technological, user community and policy factors. Motivated by casestudies in space science and time-based media, we consider the impact ofchange on complex digital objects comprising multiple interdependent entities,such as files, software and documentation. Our approach is based on modellingof digital ecosystems, in which abstract representations are used to assess risksto sustainability and support tasks such as appraisal. The paper is based onwork of the EU FP7 PERICLES project on digital preservation, and presentssome general concepts as well as a description of selected research areas underinvestigation by the project.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Setubal, Portugal: , 2016
Keywords
digital preservation, digital ecosystems, PERICLES project
National Category
Communication Systems Computer Systems Interaction Technologies Information Systems Other Computer and Information Science Media Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-11746 (URN)978-989-758-176-2 (ISBN)
Conference
European Project Space (EPS) event organized in Colmar, July 2015,associated with the set of conferences ICETE (12th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications), ICSOFT (10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies), SIMULTECH (5th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications) and DATA (4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications).
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, 601138
Available from: 2017-01-10 Created: 2017-01-10 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved
Maronidis, A., Chatzilari, E., Kontopoulos, E., Nikopoulos, S., Riga, M., Mitzias, P., . . . Sauter, C. (2016). PERICLES Deliverable 4.3: Content Semantics and Use Context Analysis Techniques. PERICLES project
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2016 (English)Report (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The current deliverable summarises the work conducted within task T4.3 of WP4, focusing on the extraction and the subsequent analysis of semantic information from digital content, which is imperative for its preservability. More specifically, the deliverable defines content semantic information from a visual and textual perspective, explains how this information can be exploited in long-term digital preservation and proposes novel approaches for extracting this information in a scalable manner. Additionally, the deliverable discusses novel techniques for retrieving and analysing the context of use of digital objects. Although this topic has not been extensively studied by existing literature, we believe use context is vital in augmenting the semantic information and maintaining the usability and preservability of the digital objects, as well as their ability to be accurately interpreted as initially intended.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
PERICLES project, 2016. p. 120
Keywords
content, semantics, use context, content analysis, context analysis
National Category
Communication Systems Computer Systems Interaction Technologies Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified Information Systems, Social aspects Media Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-11750 (URN)
Projects
PERICLES
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, 601138
Available from: 2017-01-10 Created: 2017-01-10 Last updated: 2017-03-08Bibliographically approved
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