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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 one’s 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
• Heidegger’s “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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• Tuesday’s events will begin at 8:15AM 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 today’s sessions.