HapticSOUND

An analysis, documentation and demonstration system for traditional musical instruments at the Cretan Ethnology Museum

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HapticSOUND aims at creating an analysis, documentation and demonstration system for traditional musical instruments at the Cretan Ethnology Museum (CEM), which will engage visitors in a personalized experience of transmittal cultural knowledge in an active, pleasant, and creative way. The proposed system can act as a bridge between the audience (visitors) and the cultural sources drawn upon (historians, folklorists, musical instrument makers, musicians, etc.), contributing to the understanding, dissemination and preservation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the field of the traditional Cretan music.

Cretan Ethnology Museum

The Museum of Cretan Ethnology was established in 1973 as an initiative of the Mesara Cultural Association, and is based in the Community of Vori in the District of Pyrgiotissa, in the Prefecture of Heraklion, Crete.

DataScouting

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Special Account for Research Funds (ELKE)

The Research Committee is responsible for the management of University of Western Macedonia research projects and the formulation of research policies. ELKE aims at allocating and managing funds from any source to cover expenses of any kind for research, education, training, development as well as lifelong training and scientific, technological and art projects, conducting specialised studies, tests, laboratory measurements and analyses.

Special Account for Research Funds (ELKE)

The Research Committee is responsible for the management of University of  Macedonia research projects and the formulation of research policies. ELKE aims at allocating and managing funds from any source to cover expenses of any kind for research, education, training, development as well as lifelong training and scientific, technological and art projects, conducting specialised studies, tests, laboratory measurements and analyses.

Financing

Co-financed by Greece and the European Union

Funding: Special Actions “Aquaculture” – “Industrial Material” – “Open Innovation in Culture” under the operational programme “COMPETITIVENESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION” (EPAnEK), co-financed by National (EPAnEK, National Strategic Reference Framework-NSRF) and EU Funds (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).