2011: The Virtual Duke project focuses on modeling the Duke campus in Google Sketchup and places models in Google Earth with rich annotations. Students also created informative video tours through the content. As the instructor of these course and independent study opportunities I bring together students collaborators with real “clients” in order to produce a usable, and hopefully sustainable “product” for some part of the larger community. In Fall 2011 Duke rolled out a new interactive campus map system that took part of its inspiration from the ISIS 200 Research Capstone students’ work.
Digital Durham 1-2-3 partners with historian Trudi Abel, whose Digital Durham archival project formed the basis of the “Walltown Neighborhood History Project” collaboration with DukeEngage in Summer 2010, as well as a class we co-taught in Spring 2011, and another MALS class she taught in Fall 2011,a ll of which activated Google Earth mapping as an accessible way to think about spatial history and the potential for map-based forms of academic authorship.
Digital Durham 3.0 is an augmented reality project designed to embody the presence of the past. It builds upon the Digital Durham archive, as well as the Digital Durham mapping work we have done. The 3.0 version attempts to highlight the presence of the past through embodied experience of a physical space through “augments” using the Layar augmented reality platform plus archival and new material annotating the real world environment.
Our goal is to create a rich set of historical narratives that can be accessed both in real time by individuals in Durham, and online through a web-based virtual environment. Ultimately we would like to create a system where different “views” of the same core database of information can take place from within various applications and technology-mediated experiences. Working towards the platform that would help us achieve this is part of the goals of the FHI GreaterThanGames Lab, which I co-direct.
Our Durham work is just one aspect of the approach. In 2011-12 we are also co-developing a “two cities” project with our collaborators at Jacobs University in Bremem, Germany, as well as an AR project in Venice as part of the Wired! Lab’s Visualizing Venice project.
- Digital Durham 3.0 (Fall 2011 and Spring 2012) – augmented reality version of DD – coming soon!
- Digital Durham 2.0 (Spring 2011 and Fall 2011)
- Walltown Neighborhood History Project (Summer 2010)
- ISIS 200 “Duke Tour” (Spring 2010)
- CIT Talk slides 5/10 (Instructional Tech Showcase 2010)
- Virtual Duke – ISIS Mapping 2.0 (CIT Video)
- Journal of Interactive Teaching and Pedagogy Special Issue on XR! December 10, 2019
- Visiting Scientist at U of Padua in December 2019 December 10, 2019
- DIGITAL POWER: Activism, Advocacy and the Influence of Women Online November 1, 2019
- Spring 2020 Teaching October 7, 2019
- New Media Caucus Border Control presentation of Psychasthenia Studio September 23, 2019
- Fall 2019 Teaching (and other activities) August 15, 2019
- Venice, Padua, Utrecht, Krakow, Warsaw, Grinnell, Pittsburgh, and LA! August 2, 2019
- Summer 2019 Teaching – DH in Lahore and Venice July 3, 2019
- 3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends March 8, 2019
- Spring 2019 Teaching January 7, 2019