Schedule – Duke V/AR-DHI

Week 1

Day 1. Introductions (Monday, July 23)

Who are we? What is the current status of our projects? What do we hope to accomplish together?

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Arrivals ID Cards (West Campus) – on your own
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Wired Lab	Lunch – Formal Start of Institute
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM	Opening Discussion and Institute Overview (slides) (Phil Stern and Victoria Szabo (@vszabo))
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM	Break
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM	Theories of VR/AR Group Discussion Day 1 Readings: Victoria Szabo, Knowledge in 3D: How 3D Data Visualization is Reshaping our World, Parameters, July 2018 (link) Optional: Selections from Robert Scobel and Shel Israel, The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality and And Artificial Intelligence Change Everything (PDF)
3:45PM – 4:00 PM	Break/Reception & Setup
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Smith Collision Space (Bay 10, A266)	Lightning Talks (public) Order of Presentation (5 minutes each) Lynn Ramey, Storytelling in the Medieval Mediterranean Fotini Kondyli, Inhabiting Byzantine Athens Justin Underhill, California Museum Resources in VR Kathleen M Ryan, Engaging Photojournalism and Environmental Knowledge: Immersive Technologies and an Ethic of Care John Shelton, A Faux Time Machine BREAK Mona Kasra, Immersive Media: Performance, Experience, & Audience Shane Denson, Post-Cinematic Interfaces Tahir Hemphill, Mapper’s Delight Margaret Schedel, Háček Micki Kaufman, Quantifying Kissinger

Day 2. Reconstruction and Representation (Tuesday, July 24)

Reconstructing and Interrogating the Material World

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Setting Standards/Crits Exercise (Mark Olson (@mjvo) and Hannah Jacobs (@dukewired))

Day 2 Readings:

Optional/Background: “Swimming in the Liquid Age: A Disciplinary Reflection on Computer-Based Visualization of Architectural Heritage” (PDF)

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Bay 10 Gallery

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Wired Lab

Storytelling in the Medieval Mediterranean (Lynn Ramey) – Lecture Notes

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Break

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Wired Lab

Inhabiting Byzantine Athens (Fotini Kondyli (@FotiniKondyli))

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Wired Lab

Respondents/Discussion

Guests: Clare Woods, Sheila Dillon, Tolly Boatwright

Day 2 Readings:

Optional/Background: “Swimming in the Liquid Age: A Disciplinary Reflection on Computer-Based Visualization of Architectural Heritage” (PDF)

4:45 PM-

Wired Lab

Lab Time/Open

Day 3. Reconstruction and Representation (Wednesday, July 25)

Reconstructing and Interrogating the Material World

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Collision Space

“The History of Perspective and New Technologies” (Cosimo Monteleone) – Lecture Notes

Day 3 Readings:

Cosimo Monteleone, “Visualizing Venice: A historical overview of the role and application of architectural and urban modeling. Visualizing Venice: Mapping Time and Change in a City. New York: Routledge (2018)
Isabella Friso, Cosimo Monteleone, and Claudio Patane, “The reconstruction of Heiankyo (Kyoto): the image of a capital city between the clouds.” World Heritage and Disaster, June 2017.
Cosimo Monteleone, “Regular and semi-regular polyhedrons between history, theories and new frontiers of representation.” Territories and Frontiers of Representation. September 2017.
Cosimo Monteleone, Isabella Friso, Feberico Panarotto, “For the Fifth Centenary of the Ghetto in Venice: virtual transformations of architecture and city at the Doge’s Palace.” Disegnare.com . volume 9 / n.17 – december 2016
Andrea Giordano, Isabella Friso, Paolo Borin, Cosimo Monteleone, and Federico Panarotto, ” Time and Space in the History of Cities.” Research on Architectural and Urban Cultural Heritage. March 2017.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Bay 10 Gallery

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Wired Lab

California Museum Resources in VR (Justin Underhill)

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Break

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Wired Lab

A Faux Time Machine (John Shelton)

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Wired Lab

Discussion

4:45 PM –

Wired Lab

Lab Time/Open

Day 4. Interactive Storytelling (Thursday, July 26)

Immersive Education and Knowledge Production

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Wired Lab	“HBIM and VR” (Paolo Borin (@BorinPaolo))- Lecture Notes Day 4 Readings: AEC VR & GAMING EDITION – EP006 – BILTNA 2017, AND GAME ENGINES IN AEC PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE(41:19) AEC VR & GAMING EDITION – EP003 – CONVINCE YOUR COMPANY TO USE VR + VR IN GAME ENGINES (37:22) Background Readings in BOX Giordano, A., Friso, I., Monteleone, C., & Panarotto, F. (2018). Time and space in the history of cities. In S. Münster, K. Friedrichs, F. Niebling, & A. Seidel-Grzesinska (Eds.), Digital Research and Education in Architectural Heritage (pp. 47–62). New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Murphy, M., McGovern, E., & Pavia, S. (2012). Historic building information modelling – adding intelligence to laser and image based surveys. ISPRS – International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XXXVIII–5/W16, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXVIII-5-W16-1-2011 Fai, S., & Sydor, M. (2013). Building Information Modelling and the documentation of architectural heritage: Between the “typical” and the “specific” (pp. 731–734). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743828 Hichri, N., Stefani, C., De Luca, L., Veron, P., & Hamon, G. (2013). From point cloud to bim: a survey of existing approaches. ISPRS – International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XL–5/W2, 343–348. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-343-2013 Du, Jing, Zhengbo Zou, Yangming Shi, and Dong Zhao. 2018. “Zero Latency: Real-Time Synchronization of BIM Data in Virtual Reality for Collaborative Decision-Making.” Automation in Construction 85 (October 2017). Elsevier: 51–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2017.10.009. Banfi, F., L. Chow, M. Reina Ortiz, C. Ouimet, and S. Fai. 2018. “Building Information Modeling for Cultural Heritage: The Management of Generative Process for Complex Historical Buildings.” In Digital Cultural Heritage. St. Chiara project reading http://www.ub.edu/proyectopaisajes/index.php/research-lines/inner-nunnery?id=158 Santa Chiara video (seen at the end of the lecture)
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Bay 10 Gallery	Lunch
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM Wired Lab	Engaging Photojournalism and Environmental Knowledge: Immersive Technologies and an Ethic of Care (Kathleen Ryan (@Kathleen_M_Ryan))
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM Wired Lab	V/AR and Second Language Acquisition (Filippo Screpanti)
4:00PM – 4:45 PM Wired Lab	Respondents/Discussion Guests: Libby Evans, Duke Digital Initiative – see also video on her project with Maha Houssami See the Day 4 Readings for additional VR and Education materials shared by Maha: Recontr http://racontr.com https://www.walden-site.com/espace-vr.html Additional Resources for VR in Education from Maha Houssami – Microsoft Hololens : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens It is a hybrid AR/VR overlays an immersive AR experience over the real world ( Mixed Reality) https://www.txstate-epdc.net/hololens-revolutionizes-stem-education/ – MagicLeap : very promising hardware however educational apps are still in development https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-07-19-mixed-reality-will-transform-learning-and-magic-leap-joins-act-one And these are examples of companies that help develop virtual reality Course material : – http://immersivevreducation.com/ – https://unimersiv.com/ – http://virtualrealityforeducation.com/ Finally, here are some articles that I read (and shared with the students who helped me with my VR in the Arabic classroom project) on a compilation of VR techniques aiding education : – https://www.gearbrain.com/7-best-vr-education-apps-2579317090.html – https://www.thetechedvocate.org/20-top-virtual-reality-apps-that-are-changing-education
4:45 PM	Lab Time TBA/Open

Day 5. Interactive Storytelling (Friday, July 27) – West Campus

Immersive Education and Knowledge Production

Bus to West Campus (or carpool) – take the 930 bus from Bay 6 bus stop or hotel shuttle

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CIEMAS – meet in Schiciano B	Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DIVE) Visit and Tour (David Zielinski) – see also news story
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM	Move to Rubenstein Library (room opens at 11:45)
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Rubenstein 349	Noon Lunch in Rubenstein Library Breedlove Room (enter doors closest to the Chapel, or central doors and turn left [also elevator], and then go upstairs to 3rd floor)
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM Rubenstein Library 349	“Research Insights on Virtual Reality and Human-Centered Design” (Regis Kopper (@regisvt)) – Lecture Notes Day 5 Readings: DiVE Background Readings and Info Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias (link) The Ultimate Display (PDF) Derek Ham – http://www.iamamanvr.com Jaron Lanier – https://www.digitalbodies.net/virtual-reality/jaron-lanier-vr-and-empathy/ Jason Jerald, The VR Book (2015) – (PDF) Additional Links SBU’s Reality Deck (Meg did the audio design for this!) Sensorama Video Technologies Discussed Oculus Go: https://www.oculus.com/go Insta360 One: https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-one/ Insta360 Nano S: https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-nanos/ Insta360 Pro: https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-pro/ Wearality Sky: I was given an early adopter’s model by David Smith. It was a kickstarter, but seems not to be available anymore. This is the kickstarter campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wearality/wearality-sky-limitless-vr
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Break and Travel to Telcomm Building (same building where you got your IDs)
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Telcomm Building	Technology Engagement Center Visit Hosts: Michael Faber, Chip Bobbert and Mark McGill, Duke Digital Initiative
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Telcomm Conference Room	Respondents/Discussion/Reflection on Week 1
5:00 PM –	Return to East Campus/Lab Time/Open

Weekend – On Your Own

Suggestions: See the Logistics Page for ideas

WEEK 2

Day 6. Media/Art/Experience (Monday, July 30) – Week 2 is in FHI, Bay 4

Immersive Media and Performance

Special Guest: Elizabeth Tran, National Endowment for the Humanities (etran@neh.gov)

Note: in Week 2 we will spend most of our time in the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Bay 4. (See the Logistics Page for more info.) However, you may continue to access the lab spaces in Bay 10 when you wish.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C106, of Smith Warehouse	Presentation and Discussion: “AR and Apprehension” (Victoria Szabo (@vszabo)) – Lecture Notes Day 6 Readings: Cosimo Monteleone, “Visualizing Venice: A historical overview of the role and application of architectural and urban modeling, and Victoria Szabo, “Guidebooks and mobile applications: a new mode of communication.” Visualizing Venice: Mapping Time and Change in a City. New York: Routledge (2018) Optional download: Ghett/App on Guidigo Victoria Szabo, “Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory” from Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities Followup Resources on skeleton tracking without the full multi-camera setup or Kinect. (from Matt following Mona’s talk) DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhkd_bAwwMc Project: http://densepose.org/ Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.00434.pdf Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/DensePose 2D and 3D Pose Estimation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6nZXeWlGM Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08050 Code: https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM PhD Lab	Lunch
1:15 PM – 2:30PM Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall	Immersive Media: Performance, Experience, & Audience (Mona Kasra (@monaism)) Day 6 Readings (followup materials)
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM Ahmadieh Familiy Lecture Hall	Post-Cinematic Interfaces (Shane Denson (@medieninitiativ))
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall	Discussion
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Augmentality visit in Downtown Durham
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM	Group Dinner at Dos Perros

Day 7. Media/Art/Experience (Tuesday, July 31) – BAY 10 in the AM

Multimodality and Experience Design

Special Guest: Elizabeth Tran, National Endowment for the Humanities

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Bay 10, Collision Space	Mapper’s Delight (Tahir Hemphill)
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM PhD Lab (Bay 4)	Lunch
1:15 PM – 2:30PM Bay 10, Collision Space	Háček (Margaret Schedel)
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Bay 10, Collision Space	Discussion/Demo VR and Audio (Matthew Kenney (@baykenney) and Aaron Kutnick)
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Bay 10, Collision Space	Web-Based Approaches to VR/AR (Mark Olson (@mjvo) and Angelina Liu) Day 7 Hands-on Session Preparation: Tomorrow afternoon we will be discussing emerging technologies for delivering AR/VR experiences via a mobile web browser. Demo Links: http://aframe.io https://glitch.com/~aframe-stub Geli example: https://geli25.github.io/aframe_example/ We will have a few iPads on hand to play around with, but if you’d like to experience our AR/VR demos on your own devices: Check if you have an ARkit-/ARcore- enabled device IOS users: Install Mozilla’s experimental webXR-enabled browser: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webxr-viewer/id1295998056?mt=8 Install the Viromedia app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/viro-media/id1163100576?mt=8 Android Users: Install the Google ARcore app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.ar.core Install the Viromedia app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viromedia.viromedia&hl=en_US Presentation Slides
4:45 PM –	Lab Time/Open

Day 8. Data/Archives/History (Wednesday, August 1) – Bay 4

Data Visualization in 3D

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Ahmadieh Familiy Lecture Hall

3D Data into VR (Edward Triplett (@EdTriplett))

Day 8 Readings:

David Staley. Chapter 2: “Visualization as an Alternative to Prose” in Computers Visualization and History (2013)
Christoper Johansen, “Mapping Virtual Worlds” in A New Companion to Digital Humanities (2016)
Optional Extras:
- David Staley, Chapter 4: “Virtual History” in Computer Visualization and History
- Stuart Eve, “Augmenting Phenomenology: Using Augmented Reality to Aid Archaeological Phenomenology in the Landscape.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,
  
  Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 582-600
- Julie Candy, “Landscape and Perception: The Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela from anArchaeological Perspective.” eSharp Issue 4.

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

PhD Lab

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Quantifying Kissinger (Micki Kaufman (@MickiKaufman))
Guests: Eric Monson, Paul Jaskot (@PBJaskot)

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Break

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Discussion

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall and PhD Lab

Demos:

Hololens and Oculus Go (David Zielinski)
de Barbari View AR project (Hannah Jacobs)

4:45 PM –

PhD Lab/Wired Lab

Lab Time/Open

Day 9. Data/Archives/History (Thursday, August 2)

Scholarly Futures

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ahmadieh Familiy Lecture Hall	VR/AR and The Future Of Scholarship – Evaluation Standards (Phil Stern and Victoria Szabo (@vszabo)) – PROMPT DOC: What makes VR/AR/MR/XR Good? Support Strategies for Team-based and Interdisciplinary Research (Edward Balleisen, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies) Day 9 Readings: Evaluation Guidelines CAA’s Guidelines for Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art & Architectural History AHA Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media SCI Workshop: Draft Guidelines for Evaluating Scholarly Visualization VARDHI Publication Info Gregory Jay’s “The Engaged Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching.”
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM PhD Lab	Lunch
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM Ahmadieh Familiy Lecture Hall	Digital Publishing Sylvia Miller (@SylviaKMiller) – Sylvia’s List (Google Doc for extension) – Lecture Slides XR and/as Public Humanities (Amanda Starling Gould (@stargould) Please read Gregory Jay’s “The Engaged Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching.” You can find a growing list of publishing resources in the Day 9 readings; Sylvia is keen to have the VARDHI group’s input.
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall	Production and Archiving: Digital Rights Management for VR/AR projects (Lee Sorensen) VR/AR Project Lifespans and Archiving (Doug Boyer)
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM	Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Digital Project Management Panel/Discussion (Hannah Jacobs (@hannahljnc), Liz Milewicz (@LizMilewicz), Brian Norberg) See also the Digital Humanities Initiative website Slides
5:00 PM – PhD Lab/Wired Lab	Lab Time/Open
6:00 PM –	Closing Dinner at Viceroy 335 W Main. St, Durham

Day 10. Next Steps (Friday, August 3)

Projects and Plans

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Ahmadieh Familiy Lecture Hall

Lighting Round Reflections and Next Steps (ALL)

Next Steps Brainstorming:

Deliverables, discussions, plans

What do you wish you had known? What would you tell your past self? Who is your future self?

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

PhD Lab

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

PhD Lab and Wired Lab

Open Discussion/Demos/Consults

Reusable #nehvardhi Twitter Archive | Readable Twitter Archive

2:25 PM –

Break/Departures