Virtual Reality and Art History: A Case Study of Digital Humanities and Immersive Learning Environments

doi:10.33423/jhetp.v22i2.5036

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“…This would explain why Humanities or Social Sciences professors do not stand out for their high ratings of VR, but Engineering professors (in principle more open, due to their training, to digital technologies) do. This is despite the existence, confirmed in the literature, of notable applications of VR to the teaching of the Humanities (Hutson & Olsen, 2022).…”

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Quantitative analysis of the use of virtual reality environments among higher education professors

Antón-Sancho,

Vergara,

Fernández-Arias

2024

Smart Learn. Environ.

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Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer-generated environment with noteworthy didactic applications in different educational levels and areas of knowledge. The study of the perceptions of the agents involved about the use of VR in lectures is a fruitful line of research because it has implications in terms of the measures to be taken to improve the training and competence of professors in its use. In this paper, a quantitative, descriptive, and correlational research is carried out on the assessments of a sample of 1638 Latin American university professors on both (i) the didactic use of VR and (ii) the influence of the professors' area of knowledge on these assessments. For this purpose, a validated questionnaire was used, the responses to which were subjected to statistical analysis. As a result, it was found that the ratings of VR are very high, but professors believe that their digital skills for its use are insufficient. In addition, the professors' area of knowledge significantly influences their ratings, being higher in the areas of knowledge in which professors have a better self-concept of their digital skills. Furthermore, gender gaps have also been identified in the answers given, which behave differently according to the area of knowledge. Finally, some conclusions, implications, and recommendations are drawn from the results obtained.

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“…Although higher education in technical and health areas are those that most frequently apply VR technologies, VR can be applied in other areas. Among them, higher humanistic and artistic education (González-Zamar & Abad-Segura, 2020; Hutson & Olsen, 2022) or history education (Zhang, 2019), among others.…”

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Quantitative analysis of the use of virtual reality environments among higher education professors

Antón-Sancho,

Vergara,

Fernández-Arias

2024

Smart Learn. Environ.

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“…Furthermore, VR facilitates collaboration and peer learning in ways that were previously impossible. Students can share virtual spaces, co-create artworks, and provide feedback to one another regardless of physical distance [12]. This collaborative aspect fosters a sense of community and collective learning, enriching the educational experience for all involved.…”

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Practice of Digital Media Art Education Based on Virtual Reality Technology

2024

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Digital media art education has entered a new era with the integration of virtual reality (VR), offering students immersive and interactive learning experiences. Through VR technology, students can explore the creative possibilities of digital media art in a simulated environment that transcends traditional classroom boundaries. From interactive installations to virtual exhibitions, VR enables students to experiment with diverse mediums, techniques, and concepts in a safe and engaging space. Moreover, VR facilitates collaboration and peer feedback, allowing students to showcase their work, receive critiques, and collaborate with peers from around the world in virtual studios and galleries. This paper explores the practical implementation of digital media art education utilizing virtual reality (VR) technology, augmented by Multimedia Linear Statistical Feature Classification (MLSC). VR technology offers immersive and interactive learning environments, allowing students to explore and create digital media art in three-dimensional spaces. The incorporation of MLSC enhances the educational experience by providing personalized feedback and assessment based on statistical analysis of multimedia features. Through simulated experiments and empirical validations, the effectiveness of the VR-based digital media art education approach with MLSC is evaluated. Results demonstrate significant improvements in student engagement, creativity, and learning outcomes. The students using the VR platform with MLSC achieved a 40% increase in project completion rates and a 30% improvement in artistic proficiency compared to traditional methods. These findings highlight the potential of combining VR technology with MLSC to revolutionize digital media art education, preparing students for careers in the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of digital media.

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“…And unlike experiences for the scientific and medical communities, which tended to be longer, these were necessarily short to keep visitors moving through exhibition spaces (Carrozzino & Bergamasco, 2010). These site-specific XR experiences quickly gave way to completely virtual museums, such as The Exploratorium, a public science museum, and The CREATE project, an EU funded project that allows users to reconstruct archeological sites (Hutson & Olsen, 2022b). Around the same time, whole museum collections were digitized for viewing using aug- 2014, an inexpensive HMD that was quickly adopted for secondary education (Boel et al, 2021).…”

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Digital Twins and Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Case Study of Best Practices and Reproducibility in Chiesa dei SS Apostoli e Biagio

Hutson¹,

Weber²,

Russo³

2023

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The use of digital twin technologies to preserve cultural heritage has become increasingly common over the past two decades. Evolving from the use of virtual environments (VE) and digital reconstructions that required multiple phases of workflow and multiple software applications and various hardware to output a useable experience to the immediacy of 3D artificial intelligence (AI) generative content and the latest generation of photogrammetric scanning, non-specialists are now able to more easily create digital twins. At the same time, the destruction of cultural heritage has accelerated due to geopolitical instability, seen in examples such as the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2022). Even with advances in user-friendly and commercially available technologies, digital art history and the digital humanities are in a race against time to train and equip enough individuals onsite to create digital twins before more irreplaceable cultural artifacts and sites are lost to natural disasters, accelerated by climate change, or through armed conflict. However, there remain no international standards for methodological reproducibility and the techniques used currently by many scholars include specialized training and knowledge. As such, this paper presents a case study that addresses reproducibility and explainability in the digital humanities through a detailed workflow of the creation of a digital twin of Chiesa dei SS Apostoli e Biagio in Florence, Italy. A model is presented that is scalable and leverages widely available, user-friendly 360 cameras and photogrammetry with LiDAR to capture cultural heritage sites with best practices on how to quickly and effectively train non-specialists to create site-specific digital twins of a variety of cultural heritage structures.

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Virtual Reality and Art History: A Case Study of Digital Humanities and Immersive Learning Environments

Cited by 17 publications

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Quantitative analysis of the use of virtual reality environments among higher education professors

Quantitative analysis of the use of virtual reality environments among higher education professors

Practice of Digital Media Art Education Based on Virtual Reality Technology

Digital Twins and Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Case Study of Best Practices and Reproducibility in Chiesa dei SS Apostoli e Biagio

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