GeoSCAPE: designing a reconstructive tool for field archaeological excavation

Authors:
Jay Lee;Hiroshi Ishii;Blair Duun;Victor Su;Sandia Ren
Affiliations:
MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2001

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Abstract

We introduce GeoSCAPE, a "reconstructive" tool for capturing measurement data in field archaeology and facilitating a 3D visualization of an excavation rendered in computer graphics. This project is carried out by extending a recently developed an orientation-aware digital measuring tape, called HandSCAPE that has been examined to address the efficiency of bridging measuring and modeling for on-site application areas [2]. In this paper, we present the GeoSCAPE system using the same digital tape measure interacting with an enhancing archaeological-specific 3D visualizations the goal is to provide visual reconstruction methods by acquiring accurate field measurements and visualizing the complex work of an archaeologist during the course of on-site excavation.