Swiss Echoes: An immersive and embodied exploration of a national broadcasting archive
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Date
2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
This paper answers the need for new modes of access for large audiovisual collections and builds on top of the computational and immersive turn of the cultural sector. The immersive installation Swiss Echoes fosters an embodied and spatialised paradigm in which visitors fly over a topographical 3D map of the Swiss landscape to discover how the voices captured in the national broadcasting archive of the Radio Télévision Suisse talk about local places. Through a reflection on the design rationale supported by key insights from a user evaluation conducted at our laboratory, three main themes are elucidated. First, the computational augmentation of the archive foregrounds access to a collection of locations rather than videos. Second, the use of an immersive environment and a performative controller fosters a profoundly embodied mode of spatial exploration. Third, sharing the immersive experience between multiple visitors creates a collective form of engagement, where the main visitor interacting becomes a performer and director for the others.
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CCS Concepts: Applied computing → Arts and humanities; Human-centered computing → Visualization; Computing methodologies → Information extraction
@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253313,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Swiss Echoes: An immersive and embodied exploration of a national broadcasting archive}},
author = {Alliata, Giacomo and Serafin, Loïc and Rattinger, André and Kenderdine, Sarah},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253313}
}