Last updated: 8 October 2024.

Just published (since 2021)

Articles

• Fensham, R., Summer, T. D., Cutter, N., Buchanan, G., Liu, R., Munoz, J., Smithies, J., Zheng, I., Carlin, D., Champion, E., Craig, H., East, S., Hay, C., Given, L. M., Macarthur, J., McMeekin, D., Mendelssohn, J., & van der Plaat, D. (2024). Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 18(2). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/2/000678/000678.html
• Rahaman, H., Champion, E. M., & McMeekin, D. (2023). Outside Inn: Exploring the Heritage of a Historic Hotel through 360-Panoramas. Heritage, 6(5), 4380-4410. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6050232 (Special Issue “Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS for Built Heritage.”) This was selected for Encyclopedia: Rahaman, H., Champion, E. M., & McMeekin, D. (2023). 360-Panoramas for Historic Buildings. Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/46998.
• Yu, F., Champion, E., & McMeekin, D. (2023). Exploring Historical Australian Expeditions with Time-Layered Cultural Maps. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(3), 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030104.
• Fensham, R., Summer, T. D., Cutter, N., Buchanan, G., Liu, R., Munoz, J., Smithies, J., Zheng, I., Carlin, D., Champion, E., Craig, H., East, S., Hay, C., Given, L. M., Macarthur, J., McMeekin, D., Mendelssohn, J., & van der Plaat, D. (2024). Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 18(2). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/2/000678/000678.html
• Yu, F., Champion, E., & McMeekin, D. (2023). Exploring Historical Australian Expeditions with Time-Layered Cultural Maps. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(3), 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030104
• Rahaman, H., Champion, E. M., & McMeekin, D. (2023). 360-Panoramas for Historic Buildings. Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/46998
• Rahaman, H., Champion, E. M., & McMeekin, D. (2023). Outside Inn: Exploring the Heritage of a Historic Hotel through 360-Panoramas. Heritage, 6(5), 4380-4410. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6050232 (Special Issue “Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS for Built Heritage”)

Books

• Champion, E., & Hiriart Vera, J. F. (Eds.). (2024). Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark? (Vol. 15). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111253275.
• Champion, E. (2023). Playing with The Past: Into the Future. 2^nd edition. Human–Computer Interaction series. Springer-Nature. ISBN: 978-3-031-10931-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10932-4
• Champion, E., Stadler, J., Lee, C., and Peaslee, R. M. (Eds). (2023). Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, The Virtual, and the Cinematic. Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series. ISBN 9781032355962.
• Champion, E. (2021). Rethinking Virtual Places. Spatial Humanities series. 9780253058355, Indiana University Press, Indiana, USA.
• Champion, E. (Ed). (2021). Virtual Heritage: A Guide. Ubiquity Press, London.

Book Chapters

• Champion, E. (2024). Caught between a Rock and a Ludic Place: Geography for Non-Geographers via Games. In M. Morawski & S. Wolff-Seidel (Eds.), Gaming and Geography: A Multi-perspective Approach to Understanding the Impacts on Geography (Education) (pp. 49-61).Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031422591. Invited. 30/10/2024
• Champion, E., & Rahaman, H. (2024). DH-XR: Extended Reality’s Relevance to the Digital Humanities. In C. Sin-wai, M. Kin-wah, & S. M. Leung (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Encyclopedia-of-Technology-and-the-Humanities/Sin-wai-Kin-wah-Ming/p/book/9781032049427.
• Champion, E., & Emery, S. (2024). Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums [GLAM]-focussed Games and Gamification. In J. Nichols & B. Mehra (Eds.), Data Curation and Information Systems Design from Australasia: Implications for Cataloguing of Vernacular Knowledge in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Vol. 54, pp. 67-83). Emerald Publishing Limited. Invited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020240000054006. 31 Jan 2024.
• Champion, Erik. (2024). “Assassin’s Creed as Immersive and Interactive Architectural History.” In Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark?edited by Erik Champion and Juan Hiriart, 239-262. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
• Champion, Erik, and Juan Hiriart. (2024). “Introduction: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark?” In Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark? edited by Erik Champion and Juan Hiriart, In Video Games and the Humanities, 1-10. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, Oldenbourg.
• Champion, E., & Hiriart, J. (2023). Workshopping Board Games for Space Place and Culture. In C. Randl & D. M. Lasansky (Eds.), Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. 8 August 2023. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047838/playing-place/ ISBN 9780262047838. 15 August 2023.
• Champion, E. (2023). Not Quite Virtual: Techné between Text and World. In B. Mauer & A. Salter (Eds.), Reimagining the Humanities (pp. 90-108). Parlor Press. https://parlorpress.com/products/reimagining-the-humanities.
• Champion, E. (2023). Swords Sandals and Selfies: Videogame-induced Tourism. In E. Champion, C. Lee, J. Stadler, & R. M. Peaslee. (Ed). (2023). Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes. Routledge. Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, The Virtual, and the Cinematic. Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series. ISBN 9781032355962.

Conference Papers

• Champion, Erik. 2024. “Usable, Useful, Reviewable and Reusable Metadata.” In 1st Webinar on Defining Paradata, Metadata & Data for Documenting 2D/3D Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH), edited by Marinos Ioannides. Online: UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, Cyprus University of Technology. Will become a book chapter.
• Champion, E. & Rahaman, H. (2023). Difficult Decision-making: the Democratic Layer Missing in Virtual Heritage. ICOMOS General Assembly Scientific Symposium, Sydney. 6/9/2023. https://icomosga2023.org
• Champion, E. (2023), 24 August 2023). 3D Digital Heritage As A Scholarly Ecosystem Australian Cultural Data Engine ARC Project Meeting, University of Melbourne, Australia. Invited and funded.
• Champion, E. M. (2023). Reworking Architecture as Art in the Age of Virtual Replication Real Space-Virtual Space. Aesthetics, Architecture, And Immersive Environments, AN-ICON INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, Milan, Italy. https://an-icon.unimi.it/calendars/real-space-virtual-space-aesthetics-architecture-and-immersive-environments/
• Champion, E., & Rahaman, H. (2023, 5 September 2023). Difficult Decision-making: the Democratic Layer Missing in Virtual Heritage ICOMOS GA2023 Scientific Symposium, Sydney, Australia. https://icomosga2023.org
• Rahaman, H., Champion, E., & McMeekin, D. (2023, 23-24 October 2023). Beyond Google Street View: Expanding Boundaries with Interactive 360-Panorama Heritage Tours. Proceedings of the 2023 State Heritage Conference Our Shared Heritage: Culture and Continuum, Perth, WA, Australia.
• Champion, E., & McCallum, S. (2022, 20-23 November 2022). Game Design Prototyping Workshop: Brainstorming and Designing Collaborative and Creative Game Prototypes with Immersive Surfaces ACM ISS 2022, Wellington, New Zealand. https://conf.researchr.org/home/iss-2022; https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532104.3571472

Talks

• Champion, E. (2024, 31 October 2024). Games as Virtual Tourism. Virtual. University of Hiroshima guest lecture (Japan). Funded.
• Invited Adjunct Professor, virtual lectures (digital animation), Faculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 4 lectures 2024. Funded.
• Champion, E. M. Invited talk: Playing with the Past I & II: Reflections. University of Antwerp, Belgium, 26 February 2024. Funded.
• Champion, E. M. Invited talk / book launch: Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes. Book launch at Watershed Media Centre, UWE Bristol, UK. 23 October 2023.
• Champion, E. M. Invited talk: Reflective Experiences with Immersive Heritage (Difficult Digital Heritage), School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Central Square, Cardiff University, UK. 25 October 2023.
• Champion, E. M. Invited talk and workshop: Linking Digital Heritage, Games and Virtual Tourism: Menningararfur í sýndarheimum – Cultural Heritage in Virtual Worlds Symposium. VR Lab, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 20 October 2023.
• Champion, E. M. Invited talk: Flexible Heritage Games, Extended Reality and Heritage Futures, MediaCity: University of Salford, Salford UK, 18 October 2023. Part of immersive installation talks.
• Champion, E. M. Invited talk: LUNCH With A Writer: “Playing With The Past” and workshop. Gunnerus Library, NTNU Trondheim, 16-17 October 2023.
• Champion, E. (2023). 3D Digital Heritage As A Scholarly Ecosystem Australian Cultural Data Engine, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Champion, E. (2023, 8 May 2023). Reflective Experiences with Immersive Heritage talk Book launch of Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences, Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, Greece.
• Invited Adjunct Professor, virtual lectures (digital animation), Faculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 24 February, 10 March, 5 and 12 May 2023: VR in Games, VR for history learning, The effectiveness of game technology for academic learning, New Trends and Technologies in VR for human daily life.
• Invited to Virtual Memoryscapes Workshops, part of Participatory Workshops: Co-Designing Guidelines for Digital Interventions in Holocaust Memory and Education, led by Dr Victoria Grace Walden (University of Sussex) and SPECS-Lab (The Netherlands). 28 February, 14 March 2023. Virtual. https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/

Keynote

• Champion, E. (2024, 17-18 November 2024). Data and Immersive Visualisation MUSEUM BIG DATA, Athens, Greece. https://2024.museumbigdata.org/keynote-speakers/; https://2024.museumbigdata.org/. Invited keynote.

In Press

Special issue co-editor

• Champion, E., & Emery, S. (2025 (pending)). Special issue “Creative Digital Escape Rooms”. Digital Creativity. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ndcr20
• Champion, E., & Carla Amaro, A (2025 (pending)). Special Issue “Cultural Heritage In The Digital Age: Innovative Approaches To Preservation And Promotion.” Journal of Digital Media & Interaction (JDMI). https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi. Submission deadline: February 28, 2025.

Upcoming Journal articles

• Champion, E., Heras, V., & Hemp, E. (2024: pending). Digital Heritage Across The World. Historic Environment. https://australia.icomos.org/publications/historic-environment/

Upcoming Conference Papers

• Lymn-Penning, A.; Pickersgill, S.; Madigan, D.; Holmes, D.; Champion, E. (2025: abstract accepted). Building Engagement: SiteSeer as an ergodic learning tool for Architecture. CAAD Futures 2025: Catalytic Interfaces, University of Hong Kong, July 2025. Abstract accepted.

Book Chapters in press       

• Champion, E., & Estrina, T. (2025: in press). On his roles as Professor and Research Fellow- Erik Champion. In V. Hui, R. Scavnicky, & T. Estrina (Eds.), Architecture and Videogames Intersecting Worlds. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Architecture-and-Videogames-Intersecting-Worlds/Hui-Scavnicky-Estrina/p/book/9781032528854 30 December 2024.
• Champion, E. (2024: in press). Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity: Virtual Opportunities. In E. Wandl-Vogt (Ed.), Biodiversity in Flux. Austrian Academic Sciences.
• Champion, E. (2025: in press). Reworking Architecture as Art in the Age of Virtual Replication. In AN-ICON: Real Space-Virtual Space. Milano University Press.
• Champion, E. (2024: in press). Usable, Useful, Reviewable and Reusable Metadata. In M. Ioannides, D. Baker, A. Agapiou, & P. Siegkas (Eds.), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V: Paradata, Metadata and Data in Digitisation. Springer Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031785894
• Champion, E., & Rahaman, H. (2025: in press). Mobile Realities Beyond Vision and Photorealism. In A.-M. Herman (Ed.), Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics. Routledge. Chapter sent. https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Heritage-Practices-Interventions-Politics/Herman/p/book/9781032509181
• Emery, S., & Champion, E. (2025: in press). A book chapter, will add details when publication date is nearer.