From Sites to Landscapes: How Computing Technology Is Shaping Archaeological Practice

As known, tourism bears an exceptional ability to generate profit and furnish job opportunities, besides finding methods on how to gain benefits of dark tourism to the growth of the Egyptian tourism sector. So the study focuses on how to use a unique set of marketing tools as Rumours and Dark testimonies to entice visitors to go to visits darkish heritage sites which using uncommon scenarios and it's primarily based on the technique of the interpretation that affords to the site visitors as a unique experience it combines the tangible and intangible effects inside the sites. Also, the study draws attention to unfamiliar types of tourism through using technology, exhibitions, drama and storytelling. The study also investigates how the community can cooperate with the stakeholders in promoting dark tourism with stakeholders for implementation. Finally, the research approach is based totally on a descriptive-analytical study, using the method of descriptive analysis resources like empirical and theoretical articles, journals, newspapers, websites, books, blogs and using an online survey.

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“…• Interest in mortality and heritage, violence and suffering, curiosity, adventure and self-understanding (Chapman et al, 2011).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Rumours and Dark Stories to Promote Tourism: Applied to Egyptian dark tourism sites

Mostafa

Hammoud

Refai

et al. 2021

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hos

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“…There has not been any work so far that involves harvesting latent or instinctive behavior from the crowds in order to help answer humanities research questions. It is probable that there has never been such a need, until complex archaeological projects with large spatial-temporal scales such as the Europe's Lost World project and the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes project came on the scene (Ch'ng et al, 2011;Ch'ng & Stone, 2006;Gaffney et al, 2012;Gaffney, Fitch, & Smith, 2009). The scale of these interdisciplinary projects pushes boundaries beyond that of conventional methods, and therefore, new ways of thinking become necessary.…”

Section: Behavior Mining With Crowds Within Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first is part of the Europe's Lost World project and the second is the €8 million European-funded Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes project (Ch'ng et al, 2011;Gaffney et al, 2012). Both have been well funded, which shows their importance to Europe's strategic plans in culture and heritage.…”

Section: Crowd Behavior Mining In Public Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crowd Behavior Mining with Virtual Environments

Ch’ng

2015

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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This article explores ways in which virtual environments can be used for crowdsourcing and behavior mining for filling gaps within the information space of topical research. Behavior mining in this article refers to the act of harvesting the latent or instinctive behavior of participants, usually a crowd, and injecting the population behavior into a preset context, such as within a virtual environment so that the subjective behaviors and the contexts are merged. The experimental approach combines various modalities centered upon virtual environments so as to induce presence in order to bring participants into the context. This approach is new and not well studied; however, it has real potential in research dealing with behaviors and culture in reconstructed virtual environments. Two virtual environments case studies at the 2012 and 2015 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition are presented, which demonstrate that the unique crowdsourcing activity is able to fill gaps within the information space so that answers to research questions can be more complete. Thus, by reconstructing and replicating a lost landscape, and by injecting harvested human behavior into the context of the landscape, we may be able to gather much more information than conventional methods will allow.

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“…In contrast there can be no doubt about the archaeological applicability of another computationally intensive project which blends simulation and virtual reality: Ch'ng and Stone (2006( , Ch'ng 2007 have combined agent-based modelling and gaming engine technology to generate dynamic vegetation models for archaeological reconstruction and interactive visualisation. To date their simulation is capable of synthesising the 'dispersal patterns of natural vegetation communities as they grow, reproduce, and compete for resources' (Ch'ng and Stone 2006, p. 1) and work is underway to add agents representing Mesolithic hunter-gatherers foraging in a landscape now submerged under the North Sea (Ch'ng et al 2011). Although this is one of-perhaps the-most technologically sophisticated archaeological simulation to date, it is not yet clear what inferential strategy will guide its deployment for the purposes of learning about the past.…”

Section: Expansion (2001 Onwards)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in Archaeological Simulation

Lake

2013

J Archaeol Method Theory

118

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This paper provides an up-to-date history of archaeological computer simulation, starting with the early 1970s simulation models, but paying particular attention to those developed over the past 20-25 years. It revises earlier accounts of archaeological simulation by proposing an alternation between programmatic phases, in which published work tends to be about simulation as a method, and mature phases in which there is greater emphasis on the substantive results of simulation experiments. The paper concludes that the burgeoning interest in computer simulation since circa 2000 is largely characterized by mature application in areas where it fits naturally into existing inferential frameworks (e.g., certain strands of evolutionary archaeology) but that explicitly "sociological" simulation remains a challenge.

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From Sites to Landscapes: How Computing Technology Is Shaping Archaeological Practice

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Using Rumours and Dark Stories to Promote Tourism: Applied to Egyptian dark tourism sites

Using Rumours and Dark Stories to Promote Tourism: Applied to Egyptian dark tourism sites

Crowd Behavior Mining with Virtual Environments

Trends in Archaeological Simulation

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