Culture and Computing. Interactive Cultural Heritage and Arts [electronic resource] : 9th International Conference, C&C 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24–29, 2021, Proceedings, Part I /

ICT for Cultural Heritage -- Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) as a Tool for Heritage Conservation: Observations and Reflections on Data Collection, Management and Use in Research in a Middle Eastern Context -- The MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan, Opportunities and Limitations -- A SLAM Integrated Approach for Digital Heritage Documentation -- The Circular City Implementation: Cultural Heritage and Digital Technology -- Research on Digital Dissemination of Chinese Classical Garden Culture -- The Method of Mining the Relationship Between the Use of Architectural Elements in Buildings and Cultural Connotation It Reflects: Case of Beijing's Representative Buildings -- IkebanaGAN: New GANs Technique for Digital Ikebana Art -- Interactive Tools for the Visualization of Tangible and Intangible Silk Heritage Emerging from an Interdisciplinary Work -- Soundscape Singapore: Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage -- Towards Smart Planning Conservation of HeritageCities: Digital Technologies and Heritage Conservation Planning -- Digital Storytelling: the Integration of Intangible and Tangible Heritage in the city of Surat, India -- Technology and Art -- A Sonification of the zCOSMOS Galaxy Dataset -- Films as Technological Artefacts -- Symbolic Representation and Processing of Musical Structure: Stream Segments, Pitch Interval Patterns, General Chord Types -- Towards AI Aesthetics: Human-AI Collaboration in Creating Chinese Landscape Painting -- Kindergarten Interactive Lighting Design Based on Cognitive Development Theory -- Research on "The Cinema Development Mode of Digital Art Exhibition" from the Perspective of Cultural Computing -- Implementation of Fast-Building Interactive Scene with Chinese Paper Cutting Style -- Empathy in Technology Design and Graffiti -- Voyages Along the Star Paths: Capturing Calendrical Cycles from Kauai to Bali -- Urban Interactive Installation Art as Pseudo-Environment Based on the Frame of the Shannon–Weaver Model -- The Multileveled Rhythmic Structure of Ragtime -- Visitors' Experiences in Digital Culture -- Redefining the Digital Paradigm for Virtual Museums: Towards Interactive and Engaging Experiences in the Post-Pandemic Era -- Research on Factors Influencing Users' Technology Acceptance of Virtual Museums -- Unlocking Learning: Promoting Cultural Brand through Interactions with Ancient Locks in an SL Virtual Space -- Breaking Boundaries, Creating Connectivities: Enabling Access to Digitized Museum Collections -- Toward Extended Sensory Interface for Impaired Person -- User Experience in Digital Museums: A Case Study of the Palace Museum in Beijing -- Before You Visit-: New Opportunities for the Digital Transformation of Museums -- Analysis of the Influencing Factors of User Experience in Online Art Forms during the COVID-19——based on the DEMATEL Method.

The two-volume set LNCS 12794-12795 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C&C 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. The papers included in the HCII-C&C volume set were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: ICT for cultural heritage; technology and art; visitors’ experiences in digital culture; Part II: Design thinking in cultural contexts; digital humanities, new media and culture; perspectives on cultural computing.