Selected publications

My work has been published and presented to international audiences in the area of heritage studies, design issues, art and technology, and human-computer interaction. This is a selected and annotated list of my publications and presentations. For a complete list, please download my academic resume.

new heritage

reframing virtuality

• Giaccardi, E., Eden, H. and Fischer, G. The Silence of the Land Project: Promoting the Virtual Museum as a Place of Cultural Negotiation. New Heritage Conference. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 94-114.
• Giaccardi, E. Memory and Territory: New Forms of Virtuality for the Museum. Museums and the Web 2004. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2004, online.

cross-media interaction

• Giaccardi, E. and Palen, L. The Social Production of Heritage Through Cross-Media Interaction: Making Place for Place-Making. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 14:3, May 2008, pp. 282-298.
• Giaccardi, E. Cross-Media Interaction for the Virtual Museum: Reconnecting to Natural Heritage in Boulder, Colorado. In Y. Kalay, T. Kvan and J. Affleck (eds), New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage. London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 112-131.

social practice + sense of place

• Giaccardi, E. and Palen, L. The Social Production of Heritage Through Cross-Media Interaction: Making Place for Place-Making. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 14:3, May 2008, pp. 282-298.
• Giaccardi, E., Champion, E., and Kalay, Y. (eds) Sense of Place: New Media, Cultural Heritage and Place-Making. Special Issue, International Journal of Heritage Studies. 14:3, May 2008.
• Giaccardi, E. A Metadesign Perspective on Place-Making. In E. Giaccardi and Y. Kalay (eds), Sense(s) of Place. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 10-11.
• Giaccardi, E. and Kalay, Y. (eds) Sense(s) of Place, Adjunct Proceedings of the New Heritage Conference. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 2006.

affective geographies + collaborative mapping

• Giaccardi, E. and Fogli, D. Affective Geographies: Toward Richer Cartographic Semantics for the Geospatial Web . International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2008). New York: ACM Press, 2008, pp. 173-180.
• Fogli, D. and Giaccardi, E. Capturing and Sharing Sonic Experiences Through Web-Based Acoustic Maps. International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2008). Skokie, IL: Knowledge Institute System, 2008, pp. 202-207.
• Giaccardi, E. and Sabena, G. The Affective Geography of Silence: Toward a Museum of Natural Quiet, Special Issue on Wild Nature and the Digital Life (D. Grigar and S. Thomas, eds), Leonardo Electronic Almanac. 14:7-8, 2006, online.

collective memories

• Giaccardi, E. Collective Storytelling and Social Creativity in the Virtual Museum: A Case Study, Design Issues, 22:3, Summer 2006, pp. 29-41.

civic curatorial practices

• Giaccardi, E. and Palen, L. Cultural Heritage in Crisis Informatics: The Science and Design of a Technology-Supported Civic Curatorial Practice for Disaster Events. Manuscript, February 2008.

design issues

metadesign

• Giaccardi, E. and Fogli, D. Make it Flourish! Designing for Sustained Participation. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (under revision).
• Giaccardi, E. and Fischer, G. Creativity and Evolution: A Metadesign Perspective. Digital Creativity. 19:1, 2008, pp. 19-32.
• Fischer, G. and Giaccardi, E. Meta-Design: A Framework for the Future of End-User Development. In H. Lieberman, F. Paternò, and V. Wulf (eds), End User Development: Empowering People to Flexibly Employ Advanced Information and Communication Technology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2006, pp. 421-452.
• Giaccardi, E. Metadesign As An Emergent Design Culture. Leonardo. 38:4, August 2005, pp. 342-349.
• Giaccardi, E. Principles of Metadesign: Processes and Levels of Co-Creation in the New Design Space. PhD Dissertation. University of Plymouth: Plymouth, UK, 2004.

creative practices

• Giaccardi, E. and Candy, L. (eds), Materialities of Creativity. Leonardo, Special Issue (forthcoming).
• Fischer, G. and Giaccardi, E. Sustaining Social Creativity. Communications of the ACM. 50:12, 2007, pp. 28-29.
• Shneiderman, B., Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E. and Eisenberg, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Creativity & Cognition. New York: ACM Press, 2007.
• Shneiderman, B., Fischer, G., Czerwinski, M., Resnick, M., Myers, B., Candy, L., Edmonds, E., Eisenberg, M., Giaccardi, E., Hewett, T., Jennings, P., Kules, B., Nakakoji, K., Nunamaker, J., Pausch, R., Selker, T., Sylvan, E., Terry, M. Creativity Support Tools. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 20:2, 2006, pp. 61-77.
• Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E., Eden, H., Sugimoto, M. and Ye, Y. Beyond Binary Choices: Integrating Individual and Social Creativity. Special Issue on Computer Support for Creativity (E. Edmonds and L. Candy, eds). International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 63:4-5, October 2005, pp. 482-512.

new media arts

• Jennings, P., Giaccardi, E. and Wesolkowska, M. About Face/Interface: Creative Engagement in the New Media Arts and HCI. Extended Abstracts Proceedings of CHI 2006. ACM Press: New York, 2006, pp. 1663-1666.
• Giaccardi, E., Jacucci, G., Cash, D., Lievrouw, L., Hegelson, B. and Wagner, I. ParticipArt: Art Track Exhibition of the Participatory Design Conference 2006. Participatory Design Conference 2006. ACM Press: New York, 2006, pp. 8-10.
• Jennings, P. and Giaccardi, E. <Creativity Support Tools for and by the New Media Arts Community. NSF Report on Creativity Support Tools. Washington, DC, 2005, pp. 37-52.
• Giaccardi, E. Movements and Passages: The Legacy of Net Art, Special Issue on Re:Searching Our Origins: Critical and Archival Histories of the Electronic Arts (P. Brown and C. Mason), Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 13:4, April 2005.
• Giaccardi, E. Interfaced to the World: For a New Design Space, Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology, 1:2, September 2001. Published also in P. Lichty (ed.), [Re]distribution: PDA, Information Appliances, and Nomadic Art as Cultural Intervention.

aesthetic visual interaction

• Giaccardi, E. and Fogli, D. Affective Geographies: Toward Richer Cartographic Semantics for the Geospatial Web . International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2008). New York: ACM Press, 2008, pp. 173-180.
• Giaccardi, E. Mapping as a Membrane for Social Discourse, Workshop on Technology and Social Action, Participatory Design Conference 2006 (Trento, Italy).
• Giaccardi, E. Mediators in Visual Interaction: An Analysis of the 'Poietic Generator' and 'Open Studio.' Special Issue on Context and Emotion Aware Visual Interaction (P. Mussio and N. Bianchi-Berthouze, eds), Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 17:5, October 2006, pp. 398-429.
• Giaccardi, E. Mediators and Affective Bodies, Position paper for the panel on Context and Emotion Aware Computing, Interact 2005 (Rome, Italy).
• Giaccardi, E. Interconnectivity and Relational Embodiment in Art and Design. ISEA 2000. Paris, France: Art3000, 2000, online.
• Giaccardi, E. Interactive Strategies of Network Art: Relationships and Agency, Computers in Art & Design Education (CADE99). University of Teesside: Teesside, UK, 1999.