May 6

Topic:  Spatial History, VR and AR in History

Readings:

•  Addison, Alonzo C., "Emerging Trends in Virtual Heritage," in IEEE Multimedia. April-June 2000. pp. 22-25. [Course Pack]

Bonnett, John, "A Plea for Design: Historians, Digital Platforms, and the Mindful Dissemination of Content and Concepts," in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 25(2): 189-231. [Course Pack]

•  Cunfer, Geoff, "Causes of the Dust Bowl," in Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History  (Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2002): 93-104 [Course Pack]

Frischer, Bernard, "Introduction:  From Digital Illustration to Digital Heuristics," in Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology Eds. Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild. BAR International Series.  (1805): v-xxiv.  Available on-line at:  http://www.frischerconsulting.com/frischer/pdf/Frischer_Heuristics.pdf

•  Lutz, John S., Patrick A. Dunae, Jason Gilliland, Don Lafrenière, and Megan Harvey, "Turning Space Inside Out: Spatial History and Race in Victorian Victoria," in Historical GIS Research in Canada (Calgary, AB:  University of Calgary Press, 2014): 1-25 [Course Pack] 

•  Rauch, Jonathan, "Seeing Around Corners," in The Atlantic.  April 2002.  Available on-line at:  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/04/seeing-around-corners/302471/

•  Shilkrot, Roy, Nick Montfort and Pattie Maes, "nARratives of Augmented Worlds," 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - Media, Art, Social Science, Humanities and Design (ISMAR-MASH'D), Munich, 2014, pp. 35-42.  Available on-line at:  http://fluid.media.mit.edu/sites/default/files/nARratives_ISMAR2014.pdf

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Activities

Instructor:  Andrew Roth and John Bonnett

Morning (9-12)

Introduction

Seminar: Discussion of Readings

Demonstration and Hands-on Session: Augmented Reality Applications and Adobe 123D

 

Afternoon (1-4)

Hands-on Session: SketchUp

Resources

Course Pack Readings [In Resources Folder]

 https://lms.brocku.ca/portal/site/Intro_to_Digital_History

 

3D Modeling Lecture

 http://bit.ly/1rEYo0F

 

3D Modeling PowerPoint Slides

 http://bit.ly/23FvMjX