Abstract
Cultural Heritage (CH) is a challenging domain of application for novel Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), where visualization plays a major role in enhancing the visitors' experience, whether onsite or online. Technology-supported natural human-computer interaction is a key factor in enabling access to CH assets. Following the successful workshops at AVI 2016, AVI 2018, AVI 2020, AVI 2022, and AVI 2024, the goal of the AVI-CH 2026 workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in presenting and discussing the potential of state-of-the-art advanced visual interfaces in enhancing our daily cultural heritage experience. This year, the workshop theme is Hybrid Reasoning Methods behind Interactive Cultural Heritage Applications. Seven papers were accepted, covering topics ranging from augmented and virtual reality for heritage sites, knowledge graph exploration, conversational AI architectures, digital preservation of multimedia art, computer vision for historical audio recordings, cross-device visitor behaviour in virtual museum tours, and LLM-driven adaptive content in VR museums.