On 26 May 2017, the Greek Secretariat General of Information and Communication organised an event entitled Digital Tools and Cultural Management. Dr Maria Roussou presented the CHESS project and how the the lessons learned from it inspired its follow-up, the ongoing, funded by Horizon 2020, EMOTIVE project. EMOTIVE is focused on the emotional engagement of visitors of archaeological sites.

See also the full article published in the Greek newspaper Avgi about the event (in Greek): http://avgi.gr/article/10965/8225994/psephiaka-ergaleia-sten-yperesia-tou-politismou

Christophe Chaffardon, Head of Education at Cité de l’Espace, is interviewed by SPOKES magazine, the monthly digital magazine of Ecsite - the European network of science centres and museums, on what it means to tell stories using digital technologies.

See http://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/news-and-publications/digital-spokes/issue-29#section=section-lookout&href=/feature/lookout/digital-storytellers

Dr Maria Roussou presented at the UCL Knowledge Lab, on September 13, 2016. Her presentation, titled "Evaluating users of a personalised storytelling mobile museum experience", discussed the results from a series of evaluation studies carried out with museum visitors using a prototype mobile-based digital "guide" to visit the Acropolis Museum in Athens.

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-events/events-pub/sep-16/storytelling-mobile-museum

Dr Laia Pujol presented at a round table at the Annual Conference of the Société des Musées Québécois in Gatineau, Canada, on October 4-6, 2016. Her presentation, titled «Histoire de CHESS. Du storytelling aux multiples dialogues dans l’espace culturel», closely relates to the conference theme, Récits et dialogues au musée.

See http://www.musees.qc.ca/fr/professionnel/activites-services/congres

Prof. Ioannidis presented at the 20th Museums and the Web 2016 conference, by video, the paper "Cultivating mobile-mediated social interaction in the museum: Towards group-based digital storytelling experiences" http://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/cultivating-mobile-mediated-social-interaction-in-the-museum-towards-group-based-digital-storytelling-experiences/

The conference was held April 6-9, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Dr Akrivi Katifori, Dr Sara Perry, Ms Maria Vayanou, Dr Laia Pujol, Dr Angeliki Chrysanthi, Mr Vassilis Kourtis and Prof Yannis Ioannidis continue the CHESS work in the direction of group interaction via storytelling.

View the video presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdDFqDjGKj4&feature=youtu.be

Mr. Vassilis Kourtis of the University of Athens presented a poster titled Interactive Experiences in the Stedelijk Museum, A Living Lab Experiment with the CHESS Framework at Digital Heritage 2015, the largest international scientific event on digital heritage, which took place in late September 2015 in Granada, Spain.

The poster was authored by Maria Vayanou, Akrivi Katifori, Vassilis Kourtis, Erna Bomers, Niels de Jong, Manos Karvounis and Yannis Ioannidis.