Virtual Heritage Tours: Developing Interactive Narrative-Based Environments for Historical Sites

Authors:
Deborah Tuck;Iryna Kuksa
Affiliations:
Narrative and Interactive Arts School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU;Narrative and Interactive Arts School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU
Venue:
ICIDS '09 Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In the last decade there has been a noticeable growth in the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for reconstructing cultural heritage sites. However, many of these virtual reconstructions evidence little of sites' social histories. Narrating the Past is a research project that aims to re-address this issue by investigating methods for embedding social histories within cultural heritage sites and by creating narrative based virtual environments (VEs) within them. The project aims to enhance the visitor's knowledge and understanding by developing a navigable 3D story space, in which participants are immersed. This has the potential to create a malleable virtual environment allowing the visitor to configure their own narrative paths.