Conversing with the Past: Immersive Access to Cultural Digital Archives with LLMs and Spatial Interfaces

Immersive archive access combines conversational evidence retrieval with spatial interfaces.

Abstract

This work explores how LLMs and spatial interfaces can support immersive access to cultural digital archives, helping users converse with archival material and inspect historical evidence through interactive, spatially grounded interfaces.

Publication
Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion 2026)
Michalis Vlachos
Michalis Vlachos
Sabbatical Visiting Professor

Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne, leading the “Big Data and Machine Learning” lab.

Min-Yen Kan
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor

WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.