Associate Professor Erik Champion

Enterprise Fellow UniSA Creative

City West Campus (K4-09)
tel +61 8 830 20005

email Erik.Champion@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

digital heritage,machinima
Virtual Heritage
Serious games
virtual tourism
Virtual Reality

Erik is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia (Creative-Architecture); director of the Playful Cultures Lab (part of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments); ANU Honorary Research Professor; UWA Honorary Research Fellow; honorary professor at Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta; Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality at the University of Salford, UK; and Curtin University Emeritus Professor. He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is a senior associate, at Outside Opinion.

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About me

Formerly he was Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) and a past Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. Prior to Curtin, he was DIGHUMLAB's inaugural Project Leader, reporting to four Danish universities, co-led DARIAH eu's research and engagement, and represented Denmark at CLARIN EU and NeDiMAH.

He is a chief investigator on four recent Australian Research Council grants (involving research infrastructures and cultural heritage), and an Australian Research Data Commons Platform Grant. He trained as an architect, and architectural historian, received a second masters (with honours) in philosophy, and his PhD (Australian Research Council Industry Scholarship) was from two Faculties (Engineering-Geomatics and Architecture) with Lonely Planet as the industry partner. A Fulbright scholar, he has been invited to speak in over 20 countries and has written or co-edited 10 books so far. He specializes in virtual heritage and serious games and was recently a visiting scholar in Finland. He has been teaching multimedia since 1990 but designed his first computer game at the start of the 1980s and wrote New Zealand's first degree in Performing and Screen Arts.

He currently teaches architectural history and an architectural elective in advanced digital media. He is supervising a PhD in Australian GLAM collections meta-games/interactive fiction, and another in virtual reaility, aesthetics and historical Chinese architecture, an honours on horror game design, and co-supervising a PhD in architectural design and game design (with a focus on Unreal). More PhD opportunities can be viewed on the UniSA PHD projects website. Prior to academia, he worked for Digital, Compaq, Hansen Technologies, and London Council.

In 2023 he was cochair of ICOMOS General Assembly's Digital Heritage theme, UniSA academic lead of a Cooperative Research Council application, and invited adjunct Professor, by Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta. In June he was invited to speak at the University of Milan and University of Siena, Italy. In August he spoke in Melbourne, and in Sydney in September. In October he was invited to speak in Trondheim by NTNU (where he ran a game design workshop as well) and spoke at book launches in Salford, Bristol and Cardiff. He can be followed on Twitter at @nzerik or LinkedIn.

In 2024 he was a reviewer for the European Research Council and invited to speak in Seoul at the launch of the new Korean heritage framework. He led a successful Australian Research Council Discovery application and was part of a successful LIEF application.

In 2025 he will chair DiGRAa in Adelaide (in February).

About me

In the media

Date	Title
17/06/2020	Antarctica without windchill, the Louvre without queues: how to travel the world from home, https://theconversation.com/antarctica-without-windchill-the-louvre-without-queues-how-to-travel-the-world-from-home-140174
05/03/2019	Virtual reality adds to tourism through touch, smell and real people’s experiences, https://theconversation.com/virtual-reality-adds-to-tourism-through-touch-smell-and-real-peoples-experiences-101528

Research

Research focus

Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Built Environment and Design
Information and Computing Sciences
Architecture
Geomatic Engineering

Highlights

Emeritus Professor (Curtin University), lifetime honorary appointment.

Invited Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, in the School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK.

Adjunct Professor, Bunda Mulia University, Indonesia.

Invited Honorary Professor, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University, 21/6/20-20/6/25.

Invited Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia 7/2020-current.

Invited Visiting Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Center of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.

Invited speaker, NTNU Trondheim, October 2023. Invited keynote, Milan 2023. Invited to Virtual Memoryscapes ... Read more

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2024	Champion, E & Vera, JFH 2024, Assassin's Creed in the classroom: history's playground or a stab in the dark?, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Germany. 3 6
2023	Champion, E 2023, Playing with the past: into the future, Springer, Switzerland. 6
2021	Champion, EM 2021, Rethinking virtual places, Indiana University Press, US.
2021	Champion, EM 2021, Virtual heritage: a guide, Ubiquity Press, UK. Open access 10 45
2018	Champion, E 2018, The phenomenology of real and virtual places, Routledge, US. 18

Books

Year	Output
2024	Champion, E & Vera, JFH 2024, Assassin's Creed in the classroom: history's playground or a stab in the dark?, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Germany. 3 6
2023	Champion, E 2023, Playing with the past: into the future, Springer, Switzerland. 6
2023	Champion, E, Lee, C, Stadler, J & Peaslee, RM 2023, Screen tourism and affective landscapes the real, the virtual, and the cinematic, Routledge, UK. 7
2021	Champion, EM 2021, Rethinking virtual places, Indiana University Press, US.
2021	Champion, EM 2021, Virtual heritage: a guide, Ubiquity Press, UK. Open access 10 45
2021	Ioannides, M, Fink, E, Cantoni, L & Champion, E 2021, Digital heritage. Progress in cultural heritage: documentation, preservation, and protection; 8th International Conference, EuroMed 2020, Virtual Event, November 2-5, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Switzerland. 31
2019	Champion, E 2019, Organic design in twentieth-century Nordic architecture, Routledge, US.
2018	Benardou, A, Champion, E, Dallas, C & Hughes, LM 2018, Cultural heritage infrastructures in digital humanities, Routledge, UK. 1 52
2018	Champion, E 2018, The phenomenology of real and virtual places, Routledge, US. 18
2016	Champion, E 2016, Critical gaming: interactive history and virtual heritage, Routledge, UK.

Chapters

Year	Output
2025	Champion, E & Rahaman, H 2025, 'Mobile realities beyond vision and photorealism: On collaborative user explorations with Indigenous heritage and the use of intelligent contestation in Australia', in AM Herman (ed.), Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics, Routledge, UK, ch. 10, pp. 189-206.
2025	Champion, E 2025, 'Interview with Erik Champion on his roles as professor and research fellow', in V Hui, R Scavnicky & T Estrina (eds), Architecture and Video games: Intersecting Worlds, Routledge, UK, ch. 2.4, pp. 100-105.
2025	Champion, E 2025, 'Reworking architecture as art in the age of virtual replication', in F Bandi and R.P. Malaspina (eds), Real Space-Virtual Space. Aesthetics, Architecture, and Immersive Environments, Milano University Press, Italy, ch. 3, pp. 39-60. Open access
2025	Champion, E 2025, 'Usable, useful, reviewable and reusable metadata: from metadata and paradata to UXdata and back', in M Ioannides et al. (eds), 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V: Paradata, Metadata and Data in Digitisation, Springer, Switzerland, ch.15, pp. 176-183. Open access 6
2024	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, Emerald Publishing, UK, ch. 4, pp. 67-83. 1 6
2024	Champion, E & Hiriart, J 2024, 'Introduction: History's playground or a stab in the dark?', Assassin's Creed in the Classroom: History's Playground or a Stab in the Dark?, De Gruyter, Germany, pp. 1-9. Open access 1
2024	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), Springer Nature, Switzerland, ch. 3, pp. 49-61. 6
2024	Champion, E 2024, 'DH-XR: extended reality's relevance to the digital humanities', in C Sin-wai, M Kin-wah & LS Ming (eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities, Routledge, US, ch. 5, pp. 73-92.
2024	Champion, EM 2024, 'Assassin's creed as immersive and interactive architectural history', in E Champion & J Hiriart (eds), Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark?, De Gruyter, Germany, ch. 12, pp. 239-262. Open access
2023	Champion, E & Hiriart, J 2023, 'Workshopping board games for space, place, and culture', in C Randl & DM Lasansky (eds), Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space, MIT Press, US, pp. 165-168.
2023	Champion, E 2023, 'Not quite virtual: techné between text and world', in Barry Mauer & Anastasia Salter (eds), Reimagining the Humanities, Parlor Press, US, ch. 5, pp. 90-108.
2023	Champion, E 2023, 'Reflective experiences with immersive heritage', in Agiatis Benardou & Anna Maria Droumpouki (eds), Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 23-40. Open access 1
2023	Champion, E 2023, 'Swords, sandals, and selfies: videogame-induced tourism', in E Champion et al. (eds), Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes, Routledge, UK, ch. 14, pp. 238-252. Open access
2022	Champion, E, Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Grant, K 2022, 'Alchemy and archives, swords, spells, and castles: medieval-modding Skyrim', in H. Robert (ed.), Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Germany, ch. 9, pp. 175-199. Open access 2
2021	Champion, E 2021, 'Preserving authenticity in virtual heritage', Virtual Heritage: A Guide, 10th ed., Ubiquity Press, UK, ch. 10, pp. 129-137. Open access 4 9
2020	Champion, E & Foka, A 2020, 'Art history, heritage games, and virtual reality', in K Brown (eds), The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History, Routledge, UK, ch. 17, pp. 238-253. 8
2020	Champion, EM 2020, 'Games people dig: are they archaeological experiences, systems or arguments?', in S Hageneuer (eds), Communicating the Past in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology (12th-13th October 2018), Ubiquity Press, UK, ch. 1, pp. 13-25. Open access 2
2019	Champion, EM 2019, 'From historical models to virtual heritage simulations: 3D models, digital history, theory, virtual heritage', in P Kuroczyński, M Pfarr-Harfst & S Münster (eds), Der Modelle Tugend 2.0: Digitale 3D-Rekonstruktion als virtueller Raum der architekturhistorischen Forschung, arthistoricum.net, Germany, ch. 4, pp. 338-351. Open access
2018	Benardou, A, Champion, E, Dallas, C & Hughes, LM 2018, 'Introduction: a critique of digital practices and research infrastructures', in A Benardou et al. (eds), Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 1-14.
2018	Champion, E 2018, 'Introduction', in E Champion (ed.), The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places, Routledge, US, pp. 1-18.
2018	Champion, E 2018, 'Norberg-Schulz: culture, presence and a sense of virtual place', in E Champion (ed.), The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places, Routledge, US, ch. 9, pp. 144-163.
2018	Champion, E 2018, 'The role of 3D models in virtual heritage infrastructures', in A Benardou et al. (eds), Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 15-35.
2018	Miller, K, Champion, E, Summers, L, Lugmayr, A & Clarke, M 2018, The role of responsive library makerspaces in supporting informal learning in the digital humanities, Elsevier, US. 3 9
2017	Champion, E 2017, 'A schematic division of game-learning strategies relevant to digital archaeology and digital cultural heritage', in D Jiménez-Badillo (ed), Arqueología Computacional: nuevos enfoques para el análisis y la difusión del patrimonio cultural, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, ch. 14, pp. 213-224. Open access
2017	Champion, E 2017, 'Single white looter: have whip, will travel', in AAA Mol et al. (eds), The Interactive Past Archaeology, Heritage, and Video Games, Sidestone Press, The Netherlands, ch. 7, pp. 107-122.
2015	Champion, E 2015, 'Cross-cultural learning, heritage, and digital games', in J Hartley & E Qu (eds), Re-orientation: trans-cultural, trans-lingual, transmedia studies in narrative, language, identity and knowledge, Fudan University Press, China, ch. 15, pp. 218-233.
2012	Champion, E 2012, 'The nonessentialist essentialist guide to games', in B Herzogenrath (ed.), Travels in Intermedia[lity]: Reblurring the Boundaries, Dartmouth College Press, US, ch. 14, pp. 192-210.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Fensham, R, Summer, TD, Cutter, N, Buchanan, G, Liu, R, Munoz, J, Smithies, J, Zheng, I, Carlin, D, Champion, E, Craig, H, East, S, Hay, C, Given, LM, 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, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1-23. Open access
2023	Rahaman, H, Champion, E & McMeekin, D 2023, 'Outside inn: exploring the heritage of a historic hotel through 360-panoramas', Heritage, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 4380-4410. Open access 10 4 9
2023	Yu, F, Champion, E & McMeekin, D 2023, 'Exploring Historical Australian Expeditions with Time-Layered Cultural Maps', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1-15. Open access 2 1 1
2021	Bekele, MK, Champion, E, McMeekin, DA & Rahaman, H 2021, 'The influence of collaborative and multi-modal mixed reality: cultural learning in virtual heritage', Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, vol. 5, no. 12, article no. 79, pp.1-17. Open access 25 16 9
2021	Nishanbaev, I, Champion, E & McMeekin, DA 2021, 'A web GIS-based integration of 3D digital models with linked open data for cultural heritage exploration', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol.10, no. 10, article no. 684. Open access 22 18 2
2021	Rahaman, H, Johnston, M & Champion, E 2021, 'Audio-augmented arboreality: wildflowers and language', Digital Creativity, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 22-37. Open access 2 1 4
2020	Champion, E & Rahaman, H 2020, 'Survey of 3D digital heritage repositories and platforms', Virtual Archaeology Review, vol. 11, no. 23, pp. 1-15. Open access 84 57 36
2020	Champion, E 2020, 'Culturally significant presence in single-player computer games', ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 13, no. 4, article no. 29, pp. 1-24. Open access 22 18 2
2020	Dawson, B, Joseph, P & Champion, E 2020, 'Evaluating user experience of a multimedia storyteller panorama tour: The Story of the Markham Car Collection', Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 251-278.
2020	Nishanbaev, I, Champion, E & McMeekin, DA 2020, 'A comparative evaluation of geospatial semantic web frameworks for cultural heritage', Heritage, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 875-890. Open access 7 6 1
2019	Bekele, MK & Champion, E 2019, 'A comparison of immersive realities and interaction methods: cultural learning in virtual heritage', Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 6, article no. 91. Open access 131 90 42
2019	Champion, E & Rahaman, H 2019, '3D digital heritage models as sustainable scholarly resources', Sustainability, vol. 11, no. 8, article no. 2425, pp. 1-8. Open access 49 31 49
2019	Dawson, B, Joseph, P & Champion, E 2019, 'The Story of the Markham Car Collection: a cross-platform panoramic tour of contested heritage', Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 62-86. Open access
2019	Nishanbaev, I, Champion, E & McMeekin, DA 2019, 'A survey of geospatial semantic web for cultural heritage', Heritage, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1471-1498. Open access 37 25 7
2019	Rahaman, H & Champion, E 2019, 'To 3D or not 3D: choosing a photogrammetry workflow for cultural heritage groups', Heritage, vol. 2, no. 3, article no. 112, pp. 1835-1851. Open access 70 56
2019	Rahaman, H, Champion, E & Bekele, M 2019, 'From photo to 3D to mixed reality: a complete workflow for cultural heritage visualisation and experience', Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, vol. 13, no. article no. e00102, pp. 1-12. Open access 83 1
2018	Champion, E 2018, 'Computer games, heritage and preservation', Preservation Education & Research, vol. 10, pp. 119-121. Open access
2017	Champion, EM 2017, 'Digital humanities is text heavy, visualization light, and simulation poor', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 32, no. S1, pp. i25-i32. Open access 28 20 21
2016	Champion, E 2016, 'Entertaining the similarities and distinctions between serious games and virtual heritage projects', Entertainment Computing, vol. 14, pp. 67-74. Open access 32 19 9
2016	Champion, E 2016, 'Worldfulness, role-enrichment & moving rituals: design ideas for CRPGs', Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 117-143. Open access
2016	Champion, EM 2016, 'A 3D pedagogical heritage tool using game technology', Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 63-72. Open access 12 5
2015	Champion, E 2015, 'Defining cultural agents for virtual heritage environments', Presence, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 179-186. 13 11
2012	Champion, E, Bishop, I & Dave, B 2012, 'The Palenque project: evaluating interaction in an online virtual archaeology site', Virtual Reality, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 121-139. 18 15
2012	Pujol, L & Champion, E 2012, 'Evaluating presence in cultural heritage projects', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 83-102. 67 56
2011	Champion, E & Dekker, A 2011, 'Biofeedback and virtual environments', International Journal of Architectural Computing, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 377-395. 5

Conferences

Year	Output
2022	Champion, E & McCallum, S 2022, 'Game design prototyping workshop : brainstorming and designing collaborative and creative game prototypes with immersive surfaces', in Craig Anslow & Judy Kay (eds), ISS '22: Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 72-75. Open access 2 1 6
2021	Champion, E, Kerr, R, Rahaman, H & McMeekin, D 2021, 'Time-layered gamic interaction with a virtual museum template', in M Ioannides et al. (eds), 8th European-Mediterranean Conference, EuroMed 2020, Springer, vol. 12642 LNCS, pp. 311-322. 3
2020	Arthur, PL, Champion, E, Craig, H, Gu, N, Harvey, M, Haskins, V, May, A, Pascoe, B, Piper, A, Ryan, L, Smith, R & Verhoeven, D 2020, 'Time-layered cultural map of Australia', in S Reinsone et al. (eds), DHN 2020: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, RWTH Aachen University, vol. 2612, pp. 184-191. Open access 2
2019	Bekele, MK & Champion, E 2019, 'Redefining mixed reality: user-reality-virtuality and virtual heritage perspectives', in MH Haeusler, MA Schnabel & T Fukuda (eds), 24th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Intelligent and Informed, CAADRIA 2019, CAADRIA, pp. 675-684. Open access 15
2019	Rahaman, H & Champion, E 2019, 'The scholarly rewards and tragic irony of 3D models in virtual heritage discourse', in MH Haeusler, MA Schnabel & T Fukuda (eds), 24th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Intelligent and Informed, CAADRIA 2019, CAADRIA, pp. 695-704. Open access 3
2018	de Kruiff, A, Marcello, F, Burry, J, Champion, E & Burry, J 2018, 'Learning from lost architecture: immersive experience and cultural experience as a new historiography', in J Merwood-Salisbury, Ml Dudding & C McDonald (eds), 35th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ 2018), SAHANZ, pp. 113-126. Open access
2016	Champion, EM 2016, 'The missing scholarship behind virtual heritage infrastructures', in CE Catalano & L De Luca (eds), Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, GCH 2016, Eurographics Association, pp. 57-65. 4
2016	Champion, EM, Qiang, L, Lacet, D & Dekker, A 2016, '3D in-world telepresence with camera-tracked gestural interaction', in CE Catalano & L De Luca (eds), Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, GCH 2016, Eurographics Association, pp. 119-122. 1
2015	Champion, E 2015, 'Roleplaying and rituals for cultural heritage-orientated games', 2015 DiGRA International Conference, Digital Games Research Association, Digital Games Research Association DiGRA, vol. 12, pp. 1-16. Open access
2015	Champion, E 2015, 'Theoretical issues for game-based virtual heritage', in M Ebner et al. (eds), 4th European Immersive Education Summit, EiED 2014, Springer, pp. 125-136. Open access 2 2 6
2014	Warren, R & Champion, E 2014, 'Linked open data driven game generation', in P Mika et al. (eds), 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014, Springer, pp. 358-373. 4
2012	Wang, L & Champion, E 2012, 'Chinese culture approached through touch: Chinese cultural heritage learnt via touch-based games', 2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: Virtual Systems in the Information Society, VSMM 2012, IEEE, pp. 87-94. 2
2011	Champion, EM & Dekker, A 2011, 'Indirect biofed architecture: strategies to best utilise biofeedback tools and interaction metaphors within digital architectural environments', 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2011, CAADRIA, pp. 241-250. Open access
2011	Hearns, M, Cockeram, J, Schott, G, Bell, T, Champion, E & Loke, SK and 17 other authors 2011, 'He ara hou ka tū mai: NZ institutions of higher learning unpacking demands and facilitating change', ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE, pp. 571-579. Open access 5
2011	Wang, L & Champion, E 2011, 'A pilot study of four cultural touch-screen games', 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, CHINZ 2011, ACM, pp. 57-64. 2

Other outputs

Chapters in Press

Champion, E. M. (2023: invited). Virtual Heritage: How Could It Be Ethical?? In A. Pantazatos, T. Ireland, J. Schofield, & R. Zhang (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics: Routledge. Chapter sent.
Champion, E. (2024: invited). Caught between a Rock and a Ludic Place: Geography for Non-Geographers via Games. Invited. Games and Geography. Germany, Springer-Nature. In press.
Champion, E. (2024: invited). DH-XR: Extended Reality’s Relevance to the Digital Humanities. Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities. Routledge (Contracted). Edited by Chan Sin-wai. Routledge. In press.
Champion, E., & Emery, S. (2024: invited). Gamification of Cultural Heritage as a resource for the GLAM sector. In J. Nichols & B. Mehra (Eds.), Data Curation and Information Systems Design from Australasia: Implications for Cataloguing of Indigenous Knowledge in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. Emerald Publishing.
Champion, E., & Rahaman, H. (2024: invited). Mobile Realities Beyond Vision and Photorealism. Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics. Edited by Ana-Maria Herman, Key Issues in Cultural Heritage (KICH), Routledge. Chapter sent.
Emery, S. & Champion, E. (2024: Invited). Escape From Gaol: Augmenting Affect Behind Bars. In J. Micieli-Voutsinas & A. M. Person (Eds.), International Handbook of Heritage and Affect: Designing and Experiencing Places of Heritage. Routledge.
Champion, E. (2024: invited). Reworking Architecture as Art in the Age of Virtual Replication. AN-ICON: Real Space-Virtual Space. Milano University Press, Italy. Chapter due October 2023.

Books

Champion, E., & Hiriart, J. (Eds.). (2023). Assassin’s Creed in the Classroom: History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark? De Gruyter: Video games and the Humanities series.
Champion, E. (2023). Playing with The Past: Into the Future. 2nd edition. H Interaction Series. Springer-Nature. ISBN: 978-3-031-10931-7.
Champion, E., Stadler, J., Lee, C., and Peaslee, R. (Ed). (2022). Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, The Virtual, and the Cinematic. Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series. Contracted. ISBN 9781032355962.
Champion, E. M. 2021. Rethinking Virtual Places, Indiana USA, Indiana University Press, Indiana, USA. https://iupress.org/9780253058355/rethinking-virtual-places/
Champion, E. (ed.) 2021. Virtual Heritage: A Guide, London, UK: Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bck
Champion, E. 2019. Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture, New York, USA, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Organic-Design-in-Twentieth-Century-Nordic-Architecture/Champion/p/book/9780415787284
Champion, E. (ed.) 2018. The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places, London, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315106267
Benardou, A., Champion, E., Dallas, C. & Hughes, L. (eds.) 2017. Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities, London, United Kingdom: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Infrastructures-in-Digital-Humanities/Benardou-Champion-Dallas-Hughes/p/book/9781472447128. ISBN-13: 978-1472447128.
Champion, E. 2015. Critical Gaming: Interactive History And Virtual Heritage, UK, Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574981
Champion, E. (ed.) 2012. Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism, Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Entertainment Technology Centre Press. http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/content/game-mods
Champion, E. 2011. Playing With The Past, London, United Kingdom, Springer. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781849965002

Conference Proceedings (co-editor)

Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Cantoni, L. & Champion, E. (eds.) 2021. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection: 8th International Conference, EuroMed 2020, Virtual Event, November 2–5, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Cyprus: Springer.
Thomassen, A. & Champion, E. (eds.) 2011. Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, Wellington, New Zealand: Interactive Entertainment.
Ryu, H. & Champion, E. (eds.) 2010. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapter's International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, CHINZ 2010, Auckland, New Zealand, July 8-9, 2010: ACM Press.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

2024

Champion, E. (2024, 17-18 November 2024). Immersive Visualisation and the Emergence of Collaborative XR in the Museum Sector. MUSEUM BIG DATA, Athens, Greece. https://2024.museumbigdata.org/keynote-speakers/; https://2024.museumbigdata.org/.
Champion, E. (2024, 31 October 2024). Games as Virtual Tourism. Virtual. University of Hiroshima guest lecture (Japan). Funded.
Champion, E. Digital Heritage: Lessons Learnt & Recommendations. Cultural Heritage Symposium, Korea National University of Cultural Heritage of South Korea, 16 May 2024.
Champion, E. M. Invited talk: Playing with the Past I & II: Reflections. University of Antwerp, Belgium, 26 February 2024.
Invited Adjunct Professor, virtual lectures (digital animation), Faculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 4 lectures 2024.
Champion, E. M. 2024. Technoart 2024: Metaverse Content Creator: Unveiling the Future, Keynote speaker, 21 March 2024.
Champion, E. From Cultural Property to Digital Cultural Heritage: a vision for cultural heritage preservation, management, and utilization. Cultural Heritage Symposium, Korea National University of Cultural Heritage of South Korea, 16 May 2024.

2023

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: University of Salford, Manchester 19 October 2023.
Champion, E. M. Invited talk: LUNCH With A Writer: “Playing With The Past” and workshop. Gunnerus Library, NTNU Trondheim, 16-17 October 2023. Funding: https://echoing.eu. Recovery of cultural heritage through higher education-driven open innovation.
Champion, E. M. 2023. Invited speaker, The Gaming Revolution, Royal Institute of Australia and COSMOS, Adelaide, 4 July 2023.
Champion, E. M. Reworking Architecture as Art in the Age of Virtual Replication. In Real Space-Virtual Space. Aesthetics, Architecture, And Immersive Environments, AN-ICON INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, Milan, Italy; 19-21 June 2023. https://an-icon.unimi.it/.

2022

Champion, E. (2022, 16 November). Gamifying and Preserving 3D World Heritage Models in an Emerging Metaverse. Topic 4: New Visions/New Technologies in Heritage Conservation, World Heritage and Urban-Rural Sustainable Development: Resilience and Innovation, CAUP, Tongji University, Shanghai China, online.
Invited keynote, PHIVE, University of Iceland.
Living Digital Heritage Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 5th -7th November 2021
ISMAR 2021, the first IEEE International Workshop on “Mixed Reality Implications on Cultural Heritage Experience (MrICHE)”, 4th October 2021.

Other talks:

Digital Games and Heritage, Glasgow School of Arts, Glasgow, 3rd November 2021 (Virtual)
Digital Humanities, University of Graz, Austria, 6th October 2021 (Virtual).

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Cyprus University of Technology	CYPRUS
Dalhousie University	CANADA
Edith Cowan University	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Manukau Institute of Technology	NEW ZEALAND
Massey University	NEW ZEALAND
Panteion University	GREECE
Private Individual	UNITED KINGDOM
RMIT University	AUSTRALIA
Shenyang Aerospace University	CHINA
Swinburne University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Texas Tech University	UNITED STATES
University Centre of Joao Pessoa	BRAZIL
University of Alberta	CANADA
University of Auckland	NEW ZEALAND
University of Calgary	CANADA
University of Canterbury	NEW ZEALAND
University of Glasgow	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Lugano	SWITZERLAND
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Otago	NEW ZEALAND
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of Salford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Technology	IRAQ
University of the Aegea	GREECE
University of Toronto	CANADA
University of Waikato	NEW ZEALAND
Uppsala University	SWEDEN
Victoria University of Wellington	NEW ZEALAND

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Associate editor of ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage	2025
Editorial Board Member Studies of Digital Humanities Journal	2025
Associate editor of ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage	2024
Editorial Board Member Studies of Digital Humanities Journal	2024
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2024
Invited Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, in the School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK. School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK.	2024
Member Digital History Tasmania member	2024
Reviewer European Historical Game Studies reviewer	2024
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2023
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2022
Invited Adjunct Professor Faculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia	2022
Lectures, invited speech at launch of their new interaction design degree Faculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia	2022
Member ARC Indigenous Discovery Advisory Group	2022
Editorial Board Member The Journal of Interactive Humanities	2021
Editorial Board Member Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds	2021
Editorial Board Member Explorations in Heritage Studies	2021
Editorial Board Member Digital Creativity, Games & Culture	2021
Editorial Board Member Journal of Media Critiques	2021
Editorial Board Member Studies in the Digital Humanities	2021
Emeritus Professor Curtin University	2021
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2021
Member Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	2021
Member ARC Indigenous Discovery Advisory Group	2021
Member Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC)	2021
Member European Architectural History Network	2021
Member, Board of Directors Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society (VSMM)	2021
Reviewer European Science Foundation College of Experts	2021
Visiting Fellow University of JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤	2021
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2020
Honorary Research Fellow University of Western Australia	2020
Honorary Research Professor Australian National University	2020
Member ARC Indigenous Discovery Advisory Group	2020
Reviewer Digital Humanities	2020
Reviewer Journal of Aesthetics and Culture	2020
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2019
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2018
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2017
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2016
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2015
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2014
Grant reviewer European Research Council	2013

Other

Invited Adjunct Professor, virtual lectures (digital animation), Faculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 4 lectures 2024. Funded.

Conference Workshop

Champion, E. (2022, 20 November). Prototyping Games for Interactive Spaces and Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2022), Wellington, New Zealand. Accepted.

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Thesis title	Student status
A Framework for Developing Educational Games in and with Australian Museums	Current
Games for Industry: Application of Game-Engine Software to the AEC Sector	Current
Immersivity and fidelity: Architecture, design and game engines	Current
The impact of the use of interactive design on the cultural heritage of children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	Current

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