Exploring the Second life of a Byzantine Basilica

Getchell, Kristoffer; Miller, Alan; Allison, Colin; Sweetman, Rebecca

doi:10.1007/978-3-211-09418-1_11

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“…Other works associated with the educational activities category include Alarifi (2008), Getchell et al (2006), Getchell, Miller, Allison and Sweetman (2008) and Roussou (2004).…”

Section: A Virtual World Educational Taxonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education

Duncan

Miller

Jiang³

2012

Brit J Educational Tech

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Virtual Worlds are an important tool in modern education practices as well as providing socialisation, entertainment and a laboratory for collaborative work. This paper focuses on the uses of virtual worlds for education and synthesises over 100 published academic papers, reports and educational websites from around the world. A taxonomy is then derived from these articles, delineating current theoretical and practical work on Virtual World usage, specifically in the field of education. The taxonomy identifies rich veins of current research and practice in associated educational theory and in simulated worlds or environments, yet it also demonstrates the paucity of work in important areas such as evaluation, grading and accessibility.

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“…Other works associated with the educational activities category include Alarifi (2008), Getchell et al (2006), Getchell, Miller, Allison and Sweetman (2008) and Roussou (2004).…”

Section: A Virtual World Educational Taxonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education

Duncan

Miller

Jiang³

2012

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…It has been used to enable school students at Madras college to explore reconstructions of the local St Andrews Cathedral, has been used in higher education degrees in the arts (Getchell et al 2009), social science (Ajinomoh et al 2012) and the sciences and is accessible over the Internet (Dow et al 2014). In ) a virtual time window system is described where mobile devices present a window into the past.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mobile Exploration of Medieval St Andrews

Fabola

Davies

Kennedy

et al. 2015

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Saint Andrews is a town with a rich history. It was the religious centre of Scotland for close to a millennium. The Cathedral was strongly associated with the wars of Independence and Robert the Bruce. The castle was the scene of pivotal revolt leading to the reformation and hosted the first Scottish protestant congregation. St Salvators chapel was the religious centre of Scotland's first University. This paper presents work which explores using mobile technologies to support investigation, learning and appreciation of the past. It builds on tradition and world class scholarship into the history of this important town and makes them available to school students, researchers and tourists using mobile technologies. From text based quests, through mobile apps to location aware stereoscopic 3D experiences the gamut of available commodity hardware is used to enable the past to be explored in new ways.

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“…Virtual worlds have applications beyond providing a platform similar to 3D games for arbitrary online social activities. They can be used for educational purposes -for example Getchell et al (Getchell et al, 2009) describe their use to investigate a Byzantine Spartan Basilica based upon real excavations. In another work (Sturgeon et al, 2009) virtual worlds have been used to provide a virtual laboratory for conducting 802.11 wireless (WiFi) experiments.…”

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Virtual Machines for Virtual Worlds

2012

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

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Abstract:Multi User Virtual Worlds provide a simulated immersive 3D environment that is similar to the real world. Popular examples include Second Life and OpenSim. The multi-user nature of these simulations means that there are significant computational demands on the processes that render the different avatar-centric views of the world for each participant, which change with every movement or interaction each participant makes. Maintaining quality of experience can be difficult when the density of avatars within the same area suddenly grows beyond a relatively small number. As such virtual worlds have a dynamic resource-on-demand need that could conceivably be met by Cloud technologies. In this paper we make a start to assessing the feasibility of using the Cloud for virtual worlds by measuring the performance of virtual worlds in virtual machines of the type used for Clouds. A suitable benchmark is researched and formulated and the construction of a test-bed for carrying out load experiments is described. The system is then used to evaluate the performance of virtual worlds running in virtual machines. The results are presented and analysed before presenting the design of a system that we have built for managing virtual worlds in the Cloud.

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Exploring the Second life of a Byzantine Basilica

Cited by 12 publications

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A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education

A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education

Mobile Exploration of Medieval St Andrews

Virtual Machines for Virtual Worlds

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