Interactive Past: From 3D reconstruction to Augmented and Virtual Reality applied to archaeological heritage. The medieval site of Bastia St. Michele (Cavaion Veronese, Verona, Italy)

Morandi, Simona; Tremari, Marco

doi:10.1109/vsmm.2017.8346278

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“…The vast majority of immersive technology cultural heritage applications have been developed for archaeological sites and monuments that are visible and physically accessible to the public. Most commonly, further, their content includes 3D reconstructions of how the archaeological sites and monuments would have looked like or would have been used during distinctive moments of their biography (see, for example, Vlahakis et al, 2001;Vlahakis et al, 2002;Reilly et al, 2006;Schöning, Krüger & Müller, 2006;Paelke & Sester, 2010;Eggert, Hücker & Paelke, 2014;Pierdicca et al, 2015;Galatis et al, 2016;Pierdicca et al, 2016;Morandi & Tremari, 2017;Pedersen et al, 2017;Bekele et al, 2018;Bruno et al, 2019;Dragoni et al, 2019;Liritzis, Volonakis & Vosinakis, 2021). Applications for non-accessible sites and monuments are limited in number and they too provide 3D reconstructions of the "invisible' antiquities they promote (Capone, 2011;Martínez et al, 2015;Pierdicca et al, 2015;Unger & Kvetina, 2017).…”

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Smart Eye: An Application for In Situ Accessibility to “Invisible” Heritage Sites

Efkleidou

Kaimaris

Roustanis

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Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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The Smart Eye Application is an augmented reality app for mobile devices that enables the in-situ 3D visualization of underground and inaccessible to the public archaeological sites and monuments.Accessibility to excavated archaeological sites and monuments is often hindered for reasons of preservation or urban development. Portable finds are transferred and, in some cases, exhibited in local museums, but the non-portable remains of ancient structures become eventually effaced from the landscape and the collective memory of local communities. The Smart Eye app provides an "x-ray" type view of excavation sites that have been backfilled and are now invisible. While common practice in heritage sites' digital dissemination to the general public uses 2D or 3D reconstructions in augmented or virtual reality environments, the Smart Eye app presents archaeological remains in the shape and form they were found in by archaeologists supplemented with augmented reality markers that provide simplified textual and visual information aimed toward a non-scholarly public. The aim is to re-instate these heritage sites into the interactive relationship that people have with their landscape and their history.The present paper discusses the chaîne-opératoire of developing the app, from the acquisition of primary documentation data of the excavation sites to the methodology used for the production of the 3D models of the archaeological sites and the development of the app itself and the technical equipment used. Finally, we discuss the results of the preliminary evaluation of the application and future steps to improve it before final testing by the local communities where the archaeological sites are located.

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Smart Eye: An Application for In Situ Accessibility to “Invisible” Heritage Sites

Efkleidou

Kaimaris

Roustanis

et al. 2022

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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Photo elicitation as a tool for expanded participation in community archaeology

Sesma

2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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Photography can be a useful and distinct method for community engagement and collaboration, especially when used as a tool to add depth to oral history or ethnographic interviews. In particular, 360degree panoramic photos can mimic walking interviews, thereby allowing participants to virtually re-inhabit spaces within the study site, encouraging new dialogues about the materiality of historic places and personal experiences within them. This method of photo elicitation can enable more participation from those who may not be able to physically join archaeologists on a site that is difficult to access due to time, mobility limitations of participants, or the terrain of the landscape. I use examples from a community-based archaeology project focused on the site of a nineteenth century Bahamian plantation to demonstrate how photo elicitation can reveal unique insights into the ways that local people of all ages understand, interact with and value the historical site today.

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