TY - CPAPER
KW - Cambodia
KW - Cybernetics
KW - Education
KW - Hinduism
KW - Information science
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs)
KW - Multi-user virtual environment
KW - New media
KW - place-making
KW - Tangible heritage
KW - Temple
KW - Virtual reality
AU - Daniel Michon
AU - Yehuda Kalay
AB - MUVEs (Multi-User Virtual Environments) are a new media for researching the genesis and evolution of sites of cultural significance. MUVEs are able to model both the tangible and intangible heritage of a site, allowing the user to obtain a more dynamic understanding of the culture. This paper illustrates a cultural heritage project which captures and communicates the interplay of context (geography), content (architecture and artifacts) and temporal activity (rituals and everyday life) leading to a unique digital archive of the tangible and intangible heritage of the temple complex at Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia, circa seventh-eighth century CE. The MUVE is used to provide a platform which enables the experience of weaved tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This, we argue, turns static space into meaningful place. Further, this kind of digital model has the potential to bring together Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger s theorizing on the importance of community in education and more recent theorizing on the impact of Virtual Worlds on learning by James Paul Gee.
C2 - IMSCI - Int. Multi-Conf. Soc., Cybern. Informatics, Proc.
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: IMSCI - Int. Multi-Conf. Soc., Cybern. Informatics, Proc.
N2 - MUVEs (Multi-User Virtual Environments) are a new media for researching the genesis and evolution of sites of cultural significance. MUVEs are able to model both the tangible and intangible heritage of a site, allowing the user to obtain a more dynamic understanding of the culture. This paper illustrates a cultural heritage project which captures and communicates the interplay of context (geography), content (architecture and artifacts) and temporal activity (rituals and everyday life) leading to a unique digital archive of the tangible and intangible heritage of the temple complex at Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia, circa seventh-eighth century CE. The MUVE is used to provide a platform which enables the experience of weaved tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This, we argue, turns static space into meaningful place. Further, this kind of digital model has the potential to bring together Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger s theorizing on the importance of community in education and more recent theorizing on the impact of Virtual Worlds on learning by James Paul Gee.
PB - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, IIIS
SN - 9781936338344 (ISBN)
SP - 132
EP - 139
TI - Virtual Sambor Prei Kuk: An Interactive Learning Tool
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896275345&partnerID=40&md5=e2d8f1ddea48875b3a178bb4074e5407
VL - 2
ER -