Learning Through Experiences: Accessible Fabricated Dioramas for the Visually Impaired

Samaroudi, Myrsini; Echavarria, Karina Rodriguez

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“…Technology can be an ally in the process of decolonizing palaeontology. Museums and scientific institutions can share replicas, CT-scans, photogrammetry data and three-dimensional prints of important fossils, allowing information to be exchanged more widely and more equitably [ 245 ]. An international party working on Permian fossils in northeastern Brazil is already using this approach.…”

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Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

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Scientific practices stemming from colonialism, whereby middle- and low-income countries supply data for high-income countries and the contributions of local expertise are devalued, are still prevalent today in the field of palaeontology. In response to these unjust practices, countries such as Mexico and Brazil adopted protective laws and regulations during the twentieth century to preserve their palaeontological heritage. However, scientific colonialism is still reflected in many publications describing fossil specimens recovered from these countries. Here, we present examples of ‘palaeontological colonialism’ from publications on Jurassic–Cretaceous fossils from NE Mexico and NE Brazil spanning the last three decades. Common issues that we identified in these publications are the absence of both fieldwork and export permit declarations and the lack of local experts among authorships. In Mexico, access to many fossil specimens is restricted on account of these specimens being housed in private collections, whereas a high number of studies on Brazilian fossils are based on specimens illegally reposited in foreign collections, particularly in Germany and Japan. Finally, we outline and discuss the wider academic and social impacts of these research practices, and propose exhaustive recommendations to scientists, journals, museums, research institutions and government and funding agencies in order to overcome these practices.

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Section: Ways Forwardmentioning

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Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

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“…They can also be used to provide access to something that is inaccessible or to reconstruct something that does not exist anymore. Often the 3D model is enriched with audio to provide further information about the artwork [37,38].…”

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Site Experience Enhancement and Perspective in Cultural Heritage Fruition—A Survey on New Technologies and Methodologies Based on a “Four-Pillars” Approach

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This paper deals with innovative fruition modalities of cultural heritage sites. Based on two ongoing experiments, four pillars are considered, that is, User Localization, Multimodal Interaction, User Understanding and Gamification. A survey of the existing literature regarding one or more issues related to the four pillars is proposed. It aims to put in evidence the exploitation of these contributions to cultural heritage. It is discussed how a cultural site can be enriched, extended and transformed into an intelligent multimodal environment in this perspective. This new augmented environment can focus on the visitor, analyze his activity and behavior, and make his experience more satisfying, fulfilling and unique. After an in-depth overview of the existing technologies and methodologies for the fruition of cultural interest sites, the two experiments are described in detail and the authors’ vision of the future is proposed.

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“…The evaluation of the puzzle pot activity and its performance in terms of enhancing the visiting experience for families of the Archaeology Gallery has already taken place and the detailed analysis of data will be presented in the future as part of a larger research project on digitally fabricated interpretation material. The method for the evaluation of the overall experience is similar to the one tested with another artefact and museum [28,29] and deploys both quantitative and qualitative data collection.…”

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Fracturing Artefacts into 3D Printable Puzzles to Enhance Audience Engagement with Heritage Collections

Echavarria

Samaroudi

Weyrich

2020

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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Three-dimensional (3D) puzzles of heritage artefacts are typically used to engage audiences in the interpretation of archaeological objects in a museum gallery. The reason for this is that a puzzle can be seen as an enjoyable educational activity in the form of a game but also as a complex activity that archaeologists undertake when re-assembling fragments, for instance, of broken pottery. Until now the creation of this type of experiences is mostly a manual process and the artefacts used rarely reflect those in the collection due to the complex nature of the process. The contribution of this article is a novel digital worfklow for the design and fabrication of 3D puzzles that overcomes these limitations. The input to the workflow is an authentic artefact from a heritage collection, which is then digitised using technologies such as 3D scanning and 3D modelling. Thereafter, a puzzle generator system produces the puzzle pieces using a cell fracture algorithm and generates a set of puzzle pieces (female) and a single core piece (male) for fabrication. Finally, the pieces are fabricated using 3D printing technology and post-processed to facilitate the puzzle assembly. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed novel workflow, we deployed it to create a puzzle activity of the Saltdean urn, which is exhibited at the Archaeology Gallery of the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The workflow is also used with further artefacts to demonstrate its applicability to other shapes. The significance of this research is that it eases the task of creating puzzle-like activities and maintaining them in the long term within a busy public space such as a museum gallery.

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Learning Through Experiences: Accessible Fabricated Dioramas for the Visually Impaired

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

Site Experience Enhancement and Perspective in Cultural Heritage Fruition—A Survey on New Technologies and Methodologies Based on a “Four-Pillars” Approach

Fracturing Artefacts into 3D Printable Puzzles to Enhance Audience Engagement with Heritage Collections

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