UID:
almahu_9949569066102882
Format:
1 online resource (255 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-472-12455-2
Series Statement:
Comp digial humanities series
Content:
Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature at heritage sites and museums, allowing historians to create immersive, multifaceted learning experiences. Now that computer vision can be directed at the past, research involving thousands of images can recreate lost or destroyed objects or environments, and discern patterns in vast datasets that could not be perceived by the naked eye. Seeing the Past with Computers is a collection of twelve thought-pieces on the current and potential uses of augmented reality and computer vision in historical research, teaching, and presentation. The experts gathered here reflect upon their experiences working with new technologies, share their ideas for best practices, and assess the implications of—and imagine future possibilities for—new methods of historical study. Among the experimental topics they explore are the use of augmented reality that empowers students to challenge the presentation of historical material in their textbooks; the application of seeing computers to unlock unusual cultural knowledge, such as the secrets of vaudevillian stage magic; hacking facial recognition technology to reveal victims of racism in a century-old Australian archive; and rebuilding the soundscape of an Iron Age village with aural augmented reality. This volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of history and the digital humanities more broadly. It will inspire them to apply innovative methods to open new paths for conducting and sharing their own research.
Note:
Includes index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Seeing the Past (Kevin Kee and Timothy Compeau) -- One: The People Inside (Tim Sherratt and Kate Bagnall) -- Two: Bringing Trouvé to Light: Speculative Computer Vision and Media History (Jentery Sayers) -- Three: Seeing Swinburne: Toward a Mobile and Augmented-Reality Edition of Poems and Ballads, 1866 (Bethany Nowviskie and Wayne Graham) -- Four: Mixed-Reality Design for Broken-World Thinking (Kari Kraus, Derek Hansen, Elizabeth Bonsignore, June Ahn, Jes Koepfler, Kathryn Kaczmarek Frew, Anthony Pellicone, and Carlea Holl-Jensen) -- Five: Faster than the Eye: Using Computer Vision to Explore Sources in the History of Stage Magic (Devon Elliot and William J. Turkel) -- Six: The Analog Archive: Image-Mining the History of Electronics (Edward Jones-Imhotep and William J. Turkel) -- Seven: Learning to See the Past at Scale: Exploring Web Archives through Hundreds of Thousands of Images (Ian Milligan) -- Eight: Building Augmented Reality Freedom Stories: A Critical Reflection (Andrew Roth and Caitlin Fisher) -- Nine: Experiments in Alternative-and Augmented-Reality Game Design: Platforms and Collaborations (Geoffrey Rockwell and Sean Gouglas) -- Ten: Tecumseh Returns: A History Game in Alternate Reality, Augmented Reality, and Reality (Timothy Compeau and Robert MacDougall) -- Eleven: History All Around Us: Toward Best Practices for Augmented Reality for History (Kevin Kee, Eric Poitras, and Timothy Compeau) -- Twelve: Hearing the Past (Shawn Graham, Stuart Eve, Colleen Morgan, and Alexis Pantos) -- Contributors -- Index.
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English
Additional Information:
Supplement (work): Kee, Kevin, Seeing the Past with Computers.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-472-90087-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-472-13111-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3998/mpub.9964786
