Cultural Heritage (CH) is a challenging domain of application for novel Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), where visualization plays a major role in enhancing the visitors’ experience, whether onsite or online. Technology-supported natural human-computer interaction is a key factor in enabling access, both on-site and online, to CH assets. Recent advances in ICT enhance visitors’ access to online collections as well as their CH experience onsite, bringing even wider audiences than those that visit the physical museums. The range of visualization devices – from tiny smart watch screens, through wall-size large situated public displays, to the latest generation of immersive Head-Mounted Displays (HMD) – together with the increasing availability of real-time 3D rendering technologies for online and mobile devices and, recently, Internet of Things (IoT) approaches, Social Robotics, requires exploring how they can be applied successfully in CH. Following the successful workshops at AVI’16, AVI’18, AVI’20, AVI’22, AVI’24, and the large numbers of recent events and projects focusing on CH, the goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in presenting and discussing the potential of the state of the art of advanced visual interfaces in enhancing our daily cultural heritage experience. This year, the workshop theme will be: Hybrid Reasoning Methods behind Interactive Cultural Heritage Applications.
Topics
In fact, any work that is relevant to the AVI 2026 general list of topics that is being applied in cultural heritage is relevant to the workshop. Specific topics of interest, when applied to cultural heritage, are:
- Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces
- Personalized User Interfaces
- Information Visualization
- Interface Metaphors
- Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism
- Mobile Interaction
- Multimodal Interfaces (Voice-based interaction, Brain Computer Interaction, etc.)
- Augmented reality
- (Multi) Sensory Interfaces
- (Multi) Touch Interaction
- Natural Interaction (gestural and touchless interaction, interaction with IoT, etc)
- User Interfaces for the Internet of Things
- Virtual Reality
- Head-Mounted Displays
- Conversational Interfaces
- Human-Robot Interaction
- GenAI application in AVI-CH
- Hybrid Reasoning Methods behind Interactive Cultural Heritage Applications
- AVI for CH in the era of post-COVID-19 (virtual tours, remote attendance, etc)
Submission
Submission types may be long research papers – reporting on complete research (8 pages), short papers reporting on work in progress (4 pages), or position papers presenting novel ideas (2-4 pages). Especially encouraged late-breaking ideas and results related to studies presented at the main AVI conference.
We intend to publish all the accepted papers in a dedicated CEUR-WS volume. Hence, all submissions must be formatted according to the CEUR format: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html
As an example, please see: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1621
Important dates
Submission*: March 29th, 2026
Notification to authors: April 10th, 2026
Camera ready: TBD
Estimated workshop date: TBD
*Submission will be done via Easychair at the following link
