Virtual heritage is a computer-based interactive technology that provides formative stages of the educational experience of cultural heritage such as virtual tour of museums. With the fast growing technological advancement in mobile phone technology, it has become possible to create a virtual heritage application for edutainment for general public on mobile platform. In this paper, we present a...

This paper compares the language of child bilinguals and adult unbalanced bilinguals (heritage speakers) against that of bilingual native speakers of their home language (baseline). We identify four major vectors of correspondence across the language spoken by these three groups. First, all varieties may represent a given linguistic property in a similar way (child bilinguals = adult heritage s...

Unrealized synergies exist between freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) and cultural heritage protection (CHP), as these two related but rarely interacting fields interest present novel opportunities for joint efforts on common concerns. New pathways to protect ensure worship rights can bring together international standards CHP FoRB with the praxis individuals using historical sites religious ...

The paper investigates the sustainability potential of intangible cultural heritage preserved in informal settlements seen as an extension rurality urban settings. It delves into this underexplored dimension context Global South by analysing two Islamabad, Pakistan, namely, France Colony and Mehr Abadi. grounded theory is adapted using semistructured interviews during transect walks through fol...

In this study, I analyse how the Chinese Government imposes the concept of authenticity on local heritage practices in the process of heritage nomination, conservation and management. Rather than discussing authenticity as an objective criterion, I approach authentication as a social process in the heritage discourse that impacts on local cultural practice. Through illustrating two cases in Chi...

Deformation is the direct cause of heritage object collapse. It is significant to monitor and signal the early warnings of the deformation of heritage objects. However, traditional heritage object monitoring methods only roughly monitor a simple-shaped heritage object as a whole, but cannot monitor complicated heritage objects, which may have a large number of surfaces inside and outside. Wirel...

using and calling on traditional heritage of the past is considered the most important literary techniques in contemporary arabic poetry, that unites the past with present, in fact the contemporary poet by calling the heritage of the past achieved rich and inexhaustible source, and the calling of traditional characteristics is considered one of the literary techniques. the character of “imam hu...

Heritage in Pesantren is a potential for halal tourism by prioritizing religious values which have not been given much attention. Madura better known as the pesantren base has grown rapidly from past until now and heritage of spiritual that civilization Madurese community particular. This study aims to explore whole development tourism. While approach used community-based boarding schools. The ...

Computer games with fully intensive graphics are very common in desktop computers or game console, but the development of mobile games with intensive graphics are fairly new. With the advancement in mobile phone technology, it is possible to create a mobile game incorporates integrate the virtual reality techniques. In this paper, the authors present a virtual heritage application called M-Heri...