Yumeng Hou
EPFL CDH DHI eM+
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Web site: Web site: https://emplus.epfl.ch/
Biography
Yumeng Hou is a digital humanities researcher currently affiliated with EPFL's Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM ). Her research primarily focuses on intangible cultural heritage and traditional folklore, exploring the intersection of cultural heritage, computational archives, digital narratives, knowledge encoding, and cultural AI. Her PhD dissertation addresses computationally modelling and representing embodied knowledge in traditional martial arts, thereby serving to unlock a multimodal archive for public transmission. Within this domain, Hou has demonstrated her research outcome through publications in prestigious academic journals, paper presentations and speeches at international conferences, and contributions to books. She is a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023.Prior to her doctoral studies, Hou obtained her MSc degree in computer science from EPFL and a BEng in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University. She holds research and industry experience across diverse and converging sectors, including digital museology, data visualization, analytics, human-computer interaction, media cloud computing, and mixed reality, with a portfolio of writings, installations, and creative works.
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
Docteur ès sciences (PhD)
Digital Humanities (EDDH)
EPFL
Oct 2020 - June 2024
Master of Science
Computer Science
EPFL
2015 - 2017
Bachelor of Engineering
Digital Media Technology
Zhejiang University
2010 - 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.).