Yumeng Hou
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Biography
Yumeng Hou is a doctoral researcher at EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM ), where she researches at the interaction of digital museology, computational archives, data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, media cloud technologies, creative media, and mixed reality, with a track record of publications and creative installations in diverse settings. Within this theme, she has demonstrated her research through publications in prestigious journals, keynotes and paper presentations at peer-reviewed conferences, and contributions to books. She was shortlisted as a candidate for the Paul Fortier Prize for Digital Humanities 2023.With a background in data science, Hou obtained her master’s degree in computer science from EPFL and a Bachelor's in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University. Her research primarily engages with intangible cultural heritage and traditional folklore, examining the intersection of cultural heritage, computational archives, digital narratives, knowledge encoding, and cultural AI. She is defending her Ph.D. in 2024. Her Ph.D. dissertation addresses computationally modeling and representing embodied knowledge in traditional martial arts, thereby serving to unlock a multimodal archive for public transmission.
Research keywords: digital museology, computational archives, data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, media cloud technologies, creative media, mixed reality
Professional keywords: digitization, creative museums, product design, project management, PaaS/SaaS, analytics, user experience
Education
PhD Candidate
Digital Humanities (EDDH)
EPFL
Oct 2020 - now
Visiting Researcher
Academy of Visual Arts
Hong Kong Baptist University
July 2022 - Jan 2023
Master of Science
Computer Science
EPFL
2015 - 2017
Bachelor of Engineering
Digital Media Technology
Zhejiang University
2010 - 2014
Visiting Student
Computer and System Sciences
Stockholm University
2013 - 2014
Awards
Best Paper Award Finalist
Digital Humanities 2023
2023
EPFL Doc.Mobility Grant
Successor of SNSF’s Doc.Mobility instrument
2022
ENA Tech Member Grant
Europeana Network Association EuropeanaTech Communities
2023
Publications
Other publications
Peer-reviewed Scientific Journals
Hou, Y.* & Kenderdine, S. (2024). “Ontology-based Knowledge Representation for Traditional Martial Arts”. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqae005Hou, Y.*, Seydou F.M., Kenderdine S. (2023). Accessing a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues. Journal of Documentation. Just accepted. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2022-0027
Hou, Y., Yuan L. (2023). “Building a knowledge graph of Chinese kung fu masters from heterogeneous bilingual data”. Journal of Open Humanities Data. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.136
Hou, Y.*, Kenderdine S., et al. (2022). Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Embodied: state of the art. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3494837
Hou, Y.* (2021). Accessing, Representing, and Transmitting Cultural Heritage through Digital Archives: Challenges and Opportunities. Digital Humanities Research, 4(1), 77-91. http://dhr.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2021/V1/I4/77
Adamou, A., Picca, D., Hou, Y., & Granados-García, P. L. "The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach". Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16 (3), Article 63. https://doi.org/10.1145/3606702
Xia, J., Hou, Y., Chen, Y. V., Qian, Z. C., Ebert, D. S., & Chen, W.* (2017). Visualizing rank time series of Wikipedia top-viewed pages. IEEE computer graphics and applications, 37(2), 42-53. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2017.21
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
Hou, Y. (2023). “Co-encoding embodied knowledge in Southern Chinese martial arts: a collaboration between computists, experts, and digital models”. Long paper presentation at Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts, July 10-14 2023, Graz, Austria. Paul Fortier Prize (best paper) candidate. [Abstract]Hou, Y.*, Kenderdine S. (2022). Encoding the Whole-of-Environment Knowledge for Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Computational Experiment with the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive. In (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology – past, present, and future, June 15-17, Canterbury, UK. AMPS Proceedings Series 29.1, pp.121-132.
Hou, Y.* (2022). Augmenting knowledge exploration using agent-based models: A computational experiment with the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive. 7th International Martial Arts Studies Conference. June 29 - July 2 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Adamou, A.* , Hou, Y.*, Picca, D.*, et al. (2021). Ontology-mediated cultural contact in Southern Chinese martial arts. In Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage.
Picca, D.*, Adamou, A.*, Hou, Y. et al. (2022). Knowledge organization of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive to capture and preserve intangible cultural heritage. In DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2022, July 25-29, Tokyo. Book of Abstracts of DH2022, pp.329-331.
Xia, J., Chen, W.*, Hou, Y., et al. (2016). Dimscanner: A relation-based visual exploration approach towards data dimension inspection. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) (pp. 81-90). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2016.7883514
Contributions to Books
Kenderdine, S.*, Hibberd, L., Shaw, J., Chang, T.-Z., & Hou, Y. (2023). Archery Rites: Re-making Confucian Rites. Chinese Archery Studies: Theoretical and Historical Approaches to a Martial Discipline. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8321-3_13Hou, Y. (2024). “Reliving martial arts classics in the digital era”. Dushu Magazine, issue 10, Joint Publishing (H.K.).
Edited Volume
Hou, Y. (Ed.). (2021). Proceedings of the EPFL PhD Seminar “Human factors in Digital Humanities”. EPFL Infoscience.Teaching & PhD
Teaching at EPFLCultural data sculpting DH-404 / 5 credits, TA | 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
Semester project in Digital Humanities DH-413 / 12 credits, Supervisor | Fall 2023/24
Semester project in Computer Science / 12 credits, Supervisor | Spring 2021/22
Semester project in Mathematics / 10 credits | Spring 2020/21
Applied Project in CS-433 Machine Learning, Mentor | Fall 2020/21
Guest Lectures and Invited Keynotes “Intro to Computational Museology”in Digital Art History, University of Basel | Apr 8 2022
“Computational Motion Archives”, in Cultural Data Sculpting, EPFL | Mar 31 2022
“Visualizing Embodied Knowledge Systems”, in Cultural Data Sculpting, EPFL | May 20 2021
Keynote at Seminar on Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Renmin University of China | Jan 5 2024
Keynote at The 4th International Martial Studies Conference, South China Normal University | Nov 30 2022