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Teaching with Immersive Virtual Archaeology
Brian M. Slator, Jeffrey T. Clark, James Landrum III, Aaron Bergstrom, Justin Hawley, Eunice Johnston, and Shawn Fisher
Departments of Computer Science, Sociology/Anthropology, English
North Dakota State UniversityFargo, ND 58105
Contact: [email protected]
Virtual Archaeologist
a) exploration of a spatially oriented, authentic virtual world;
b) practical, field-based decision making; c) critical thinking for scientific problem solving;d) and time-travel
An immersive multi-user 3D virtual environment that faithfully reproduces an archeological site, Fort Berthold/Like-A-Fishhook
Village (FB/LF), which supports:
Immersive Virtual Environments
• Simulated environment using LambdaMOO (enCore version 3.0, UT Dallas, Haynes & Holmevik)
• Multiple interface(s) to the SAME simulation
• Hosted on the internet, browser accessible
• Multi-user, embedded objects, spatial navigation
• Implemented support for “story points” (for embedded historical and/or fictional narrative)
•Support humanities student writing project
Playing the Archaeology Game
1. Premise: site about to be “lost”2. Students given “authentic” tools,
resources, and Goals3. Role-based learning of procedure
- to “act like” and “think like” an archaeologist
Project Resources
• archaeological reports• historical documents• field notes• archaeological artifacts• maps• photographs• audio recordings• video/film
State Historical Society of North Dakotahttp://www.state.nd.us/hist/
Project ResourcesExcavation Photos
Excavators removing soil to reveal structure, remains and artifacts.
•DANA is intended to be a cross-platform information retrieval system for web-based multimedia utilized in anthropological research.
•Ultimately, the goal of the DANA project is to create a network of distributed, federated databases containing research quality digitized 3D models, photographs, and video of archaeological and cultural data.
•To the user seeking to access a broad variety of data, the client application will seem as though it is a user-friendly interface to a single online database. In actually, the user will be conducting searchers across a wide variety of databases located across the globe.
Project Co-PI’s:• Dr. Jeffrey T. Clark• Dr. Brian Slator• Dr. William Perrizo
http://atl.ndsu.edu/archive/
Digital Archive Network For Anthropology
• Though further research is required to implement the distributed, federated network aspects of DANA, the database browsing application currently supports servlet search capabilities for Postgress, mySQL, and Oracle databases.
• DANA currently only displays VRML 97 and HotMedia 3D models, though the addition of 3D file formats supported by the NCSA Java3D Portfolio is expected soon.
Technology Used:
• Java3D• Java JDK 1.3• Java Web Start• Java Servlets• JDBC• NCSA Java3D Portfolio• IBM’s HotMedia Classes
DANA Fact Sheet
WWWIC
http://www.ndsu.edu/wwwic/
World Wide WebInstructional Committee
Other WWWIC Projects
•Geology Explorer
•Virtual Cell
•Programming Land
•Blackwood
•Dollar Bay