PEGASUS : sharing virtual reality exhibitions over the Grid, a pilot and demonstrator

一个大型的国际展览将于2007年秋季至2008年春季在英国利兹的皇家军械博物馆举行，展览的临时名称为《描绘中世纪：百年战争中的武器、盔甲和手稿》。它由Leverhulme Trust赞助，基于申请者对一组15世纪早期耶汉·弗罗伊萨特编年史的照明手稿完成的研究。这个免费的展览为开发实验软件和网格技术提供了一个极好的平台，可以扩大和增强其在美国和美国更广泛的公众中的传播，并探索未来军械活动的潜力，如亨利八世(伦敦塔，2009)。展览的情感影响将由EPSRC资助的情感传播研究网络的成员通过AHRC为21世纪设计奖(PiChris Rust，谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学)进行评估。创新的3D显示软件和项目网站由Tribal Group、Shefffield和申请者共同支持的DTI KTP支持。来自切斯特菲尔德圣玛丽高中的历史、英语和信息通信技术专业的学生将在展览前和展览后进行试验。四份原稿中的一份将在低亮度、戏剧性的灯光下展示，在一个密封的釉面盒子里，构成展览的中心。参观者与手稿的第一次接触将通过手稿手稿的3D沉浸体验(软件由Tribal、Genesys和Zoo Digital提供；硬件由Inition和Eon提供)。它的虚拟“页面”将是全面可探索的(不同于真实对象)和热点，以支持与其内容和实质性的不同方面的互动。几个主要主题将涉及：百年的WarJehan Froissart和他的编年史14世纪末的冲突、政治和战争武器、装甲和战斗城堡中的生活战争的统治者、领域和传播还有：正在形成的编年史：从羊皮到羊皮纸Pierre de Liffol手稿：中世纪的企业家Stonihurst手稿和它的10个“亲属”(来自巴黎、伦敦、纽约、贝桑松和图卢兹的有照明的手稿)每个主题区域都将展示特定的参观者群体，他们的好奇心、参与度和关注度是合理的深度。展览还将考虑到不同的年龄段和残疾人士的特殊需求。带有RFID标签的PDA设备将在展览期间为参观者提供一系列可选的视听路线(谢菲尔德大学完成的博士项目)。史托尼赫斯特学院的手稿书和它的虚拟“同伴”将通过展示皇家兵工厂自己收藏的当代武器和盔甲来补充。除了网站素材，史托尼赫斯特手稿书的固定陈列将通过交互式3D展示以及由Genesys和ZOO Digital Interactive DVD and Video(谢菲尔德)设计的游戏和比赛来丰富和扩展。展览的设计过程产生了许多令人兴奋的想法，其中最吸引人的是如何利用高速/容量网格资源，在皇家军工厂的其他场馆与远程观众分享展览最吸引人和最具创新性的特色：伦敦塔、纳尔逊堡和肯塔基州路易斯维尔的弗雷泽。弗雷泽博物馆享有支持这种创新的联邦资金；皇家军械博物馆没有这种支持，因此支持申请者目前的申请，用于上述目的。要求：英国《金融时报》一名技术开发人员的雇佣成本、对Armuries的贡献、WUN网格卑尔根和白玫瑰网格的开发成本，外加安斯沃斯教授和罗马诺博士10%的时间。

A major international exhibition provisionally entitled Picture the Middle Ages : Arms, Armour and Manuscripts from the 100 Years' War will be held at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds UK, between Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. Sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, it is based on completed research by the applicant on a group of early 15th-century illuminated manuscripts of Jehan Froissart's Chronicles. This free exhibition offers a marvellous platform for the development of experimental software and grid-enabled technologies for widening and enhancing its dissemination to a broader public in this country and in the USA, and to explore the potential for future Armouries events such as Henry VIII (Tower of London, 2009).Evaluation of the affective impact of the exhibition will be carried out by members of the EPSRC-funded Affective Communication research network, via an AHRC Designing for the 21st Century award (PI Chris Rust, Sheffield Hallam University).Innovative 3D display software and a project website are supported by a dti KTP with Tribal Group, Sheffield, and the applicant. Pre- and post- exhibition trialling will be done by History, English and ICT pupils from St Mary's High School, Chesterfield.One of the four original manuscripts will be displayed in low, dramatic lighting, in a sealed, glazed case, forming the centrepiece of the exhibition. The first contact that visitors will have with the manuscript will be via a 3D immersion experience of the manuscript codex (software by Tribal, Genesys and ZOO Digital; hardware by Inition and Eon). Its virtual 'pages' will be comprehensively explorable (unlike the real object) and hotspotted to enable engagement with different facets of its content and materiality. Several key themes will be engaged with:The Hundred Years' WarJehan Froissart and his ChroniclesConflict, Politics and Warfare in the late 14th centuryArms, Armour and CombattantsLife in a CastleSiege WarfareRulers, Realms and PropagandaAlso:Chronicles in the Making: from sheepskin to parchment bookThe Pierre de Liffol manuscripts: a medieval entrepreneurThe Stonyhurst Manuscript and its 10 'relatives' (illuminated manuscripts from Paris, London, New York, Besanon and Toulouse)Each themed area will be presented with specific reference to the visitor groups most commonly identified by the Armouries in term of the plausible depth of their curiosity, likely engagement and attention span. Account will also be taken of different age groups and of the particular needs of people with disabilities.PDA devices interfacing with RFID tags will be used to provide visitors with a range of optional audio-visual routes through the exhibition (U of Sheffield completed PhD project).The Stonyhurst College manuscript book and its virtual 'companions' will be complemented by a display of contemporary arms and armour from the Royal Armouries' own collections. In addition to website material, the fixed display of the Stonyhurst manuscript book will be enriched and expanded via the interactive 3D display, and through a game and competition devised by Genesys and ZOO Digital Interactive DVD and Video (Sheffield).The process of designing the exhibition has generated a number of exciting ideas, the most appealing of which has centred on the challenge of sharing the exhibition's most absorbing and innovative features with remote audiences at the Royal Armouries' other venues: the Tower of London, Ft Nelson and the Frazier in Louisville, KY, using high-speed/capacity grid resources. The Frazier enjoys federal funding to support such innovation; the Royal Armouries Museum has no such support and is therefore backing the applicant's present application for the purposes described above. Requested: employment costs for a FT technical developer, contribution to Armouries, WUN Grid Bergen and White Rose Grid development costs, plus 10% of Prof Ainsworth's and Dr Romano's time.