# Exploring Values in Museum Artifacts in the SPICE project: a Preliminary Study

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07396 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.07396/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 38 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Nov 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Word Affect Intensities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.08798/) (2017)
- [A Description Logic Framework for Commonsense Conceptual Combination Integrating Typicality, Probabilities and Cognitive Heuristics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.02366/) (2018)
- [A Commonsense Reasoning Framework for Explanatory Emotion Attribution, Generation and Re-classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.04017/) (2021)
- [Rational Closure in SHIQ](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1406.2023/) (2014)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [SimViews: An Interactive Multi-Agent System Simulating Visitor-to-Visitor Conversational Patterns to Present Diverse Perspectives of Artifacts in Virtual Museums](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.07730/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This document describes the rationale, the implementation and a preliminary evaluation of a semantic reasoning tool developed in the EU H2020 SPICE project to enhance the diversity of perspectives experienced by museum visitors. The tool, called DEGARI 2.0 for values, relies on the commonsense reasoning framework TCL, and exploits an ontological model formalizingthe Haidt's theory of moral values to associate museum items with combined values and emotions. Within a museum exhibition, this tool can suggest cultural items that are associated not only with the values of already experienced or preferred objects, but also with novel items with different value stances, opening the visit experience to more inclusive interpretations of cultural content. The system has been preliminarily tested, in the context of the SPICE project, on the collection of the Hecht Museum of Haifa.