You had to be there: Landscape archaeology using GIS and VR

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You had to be there Landscape archaeology using
GIS and VR

• L. Jesse Rouse
• Dept of Geology and Geography
• West Virginia University

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Introduction

• Being in the moment, to take in ones
  surroundings
• Objective goals of science?
• Subjective approaches more representative?
• Phenomenology
• Husserl, early 1900s
• Monte-Perleau, Heidegger

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Phenomenology

• Understanding based on individual experience
• Change in understanding as experience grows
• Move beyond an impartial observer to an active
  participant (emic vs etic)

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GIS

• Shift back towards objective, empirical
• Mostly due to underlying framework and
  methodology
• GIScience pushes for a more critical approach

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Phenomenology, GIS, and VR

• Attempts to join in landscape research
• Mostly implicit
• Difficult to experience through 2D/Static
• Extend GIS interface through Virtual Reality
• Immersive and dynamic interface
• Heideggers Being-in-the-world

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Gillings and Goodrick, 1996 Sensuous and
Reflexive GIS

• Use GIS to understand place and contextualization
  of data
• Use the senses to better interpret information
• Visualization
• Audio, Haptics, Smell, Taste
• Linked issues
• Multiple realities
• Link qualitative and quantitative information
• Retain reflexivity based on senses

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Experiential

• Reconstruction/recreation of life-like virtual
  world
• Create a prehistoric setting to view a relict
  landscape
• React and interact with virtual landscape
• View different perspectives/change perspectives

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Templewood Kilmartin Valley
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Immersive

• VR can place the user in the landscape
• Can step through the looking glass
• Offers the opportunity to experience and move
  through the landscape
• Individual can control navigation, just as in
  real world

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Conclusion

• Integration of GIS and VR to support subjective
  research
• Phenomenology offers a subjective approach
• Less detached, experiential
• Immersive technologies can insinuate the
  researchers within the research
• Being-in-the-world

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• Thanks go to
• WV Tech Center Staff
• Dept of Geology and Geography
• Eberly College of Arts Science
• WVView.org
• Laboratory of Geographic Information Science
• Natural Resource Analysis Center

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• Special thanks go to
• Dr. Keith Clarke
• Dr. Duane Nellis
• Dr. Greg Elmes
• Nichole Edwards

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• Tuesdays events will begin at 815AM
• in Room G21, White Hall
• Free parking on Tuesday only in Lot 1
• Directly across the street from White Hall
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• Thank you all for coming!
• We hope you enjoyed todays sessions.