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Exploring heritage through time and space : Supporting community reflection on the highland clearances

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10/2013
Author
McCaffery, John Philip
Miller, Alan Henry David
Kennedy, Sarah Elizabeth
Dawson, Tom
Vermehren, Anna
Lefley, C
Strickland, K
Keywords
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
CC Archaeology
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On the two hundredth anniversary of the Kildonan clearances, when people were forcibly removed from their homes, the Timespan Heritage centre has created a program of community centred work aimed at challenging pre conceptions and encouraging reflection on this important historical process. This paper explores the innovative ways in which virtual world technology has facilitated community engagement, enhanced visualisation and encouraged reflection as part of this program. An installation where users navigate through a reconstruction of pre clearance Caen township is controlled through natural gestures and presented on a 300 inch six megapixel screen. This environment allows users to experience the past in new ways. The platform has value as an effective way for an educator, artist or hobbyist to create large scale virtual environments using off the shelf hardware and open source software. The result is an exhibit that also serves as a platform for experimentation into innovative ways of community co-creation and co-curation.
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McCaffery , J P , Miller , A H D , Kennedy , S E , Dawson , T , Vermehren , A , Lefley , C & Strickland , K 2013 , Exploring heritage through time and space : Supporting community reflection on the highland clearances . in Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage), 2013 . vol. 1 , IEEE , pp. 371-378 , Digital Heritage International Congress 2013 , Marseille , France , 28/10/13 . https://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743762
 
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Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage), 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743762
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© 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works
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http://www.digitalheritage2013.org/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6743693
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4192

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