Digital humanities are an interdisciplinary field of research that combines computational methods with approaches from the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Within a polytechnic school, this field aims to analyze and renew the ways cultural and social phenomena are produced, represented, and understood in the age of big data, artificial intelligence, and immersive environments.
By mobilizing expertise in computer science, data processing, human–computer interaction, and modeling, digital humanities position digital technologies as a driver of new knowledge about culture, social practices, and artistic expression.
Research activities cover a wide range of topics, including the computational analysis of music and large-scale cultural corpora, the design of immersive environments for artistic, heritage, and museum mediation, and the study of human behavior based on data from digital interactions. Open and evolving, this field is intended to integrate new research directions in order to further deepen the understanding of the relationships between culture, society, and technologies.
