Jerusalem's holy mount: On palimpsestic places in situated and sensory media

Liestøl, Gunnar; Friedlander, Larry

doi:10.1109/digitalheritage.2013.6743774

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“…Over the past decade we have developed a series of location-based applications and in the process extended the sitsim-platform: simulations of viking ship burial scenes in Norway (Liestøl & Rasmussen 2010); a viking settlement in Norway (Liestøl et al 2012); Augustus Forum and Forum Iulium in Rome (Fredheim 2010;Engmark 2013), several historical reconstructions of key archaeological sites: the Forum in Rome and Acropolis in Athens; experimentation with storytelling and memory in mobile AR across time and space on the Via Appia Antica (Liestøl 2014); reerecting the holy buildings on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Liestøl & Friedlander 2013); visualizing climate change and its cultural effects in past, present and future environments (Smørdal et al 2016;Bjørkly et al forthcoming); visualizing future urban designs of cultural institutions in current environments (Liestøl & Morrison 2015); re-enacting the Roman attack on the Crete city of Ancient Phalasarna in 69 BC. Broad attention has also been given to challenges in AR experience design, narrative design and media design, including exploring the rhetorical functions of 'views' and perspective in indirect AR on archaeological sites.…”

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Story and storage – narrative theory as a tool for creativity in augmented reality storytelling

Liestøl

2018

Virtual Creativity

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Digital domains render possible new forms of narrative creativity. This article explores to what extent it is practicable to inform the invention of new storytelling techniques in location-based media, such as augmented reality (AR). Doing research & development with explorative storytelling in indirect AR one often encountered a returning problem: When digitally reconstructing and displaying sequences of historical events in situ, a paradox tend to emerge: The linear sequence of actions and events might often benefit from in-depth information about historical contexts of various sorts. However, the moment the user embarks on a contextual digression to seek a better understanding, the sequence itself is abandoned and/or fragmented. This is a type of conflict where the designer must make difficult choices in order provide a prolific story experience. How may we best combine and balance sequence and access, storytelling and in-depth exploration, to the benefit of rich locative perceptions and adventures? In the following we consult narrative theory to find a design and implement the solution in three different simulations of historical events on site. These are selected from antiquity and World War II. We discuss the challenges and elucidations so far, as well as feedback from visitor's testing the situated simulation AR applications on location.

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