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

PEGASUS：通过网格共享虚拟现实展览、试点和演示者

• 批准号: EP/F005393/1
• 负责人: Peter Ainsworth
• 金额: $ 6.65万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF005393%2F1
• 关键词: PEGASUS; sharing; virtual; reality; exhibitions

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.

一场名为“描绘中世纪：百年战争中的武器、盔甲和手稿”的大型国际展览将于2007年秋季至2008年春季在英国利兹皇家军械库博物馆举行。它由Leverhulme信托基金赞助，基于申请人对一组15世纪早期Jehan Froissart编年史的彩绘手稿的完整研究。这个免费的展览为实验软件和网格技术的发展提供了一个绝佳的平台，以扩大和加强其在这个国家和美国更广泛的公众中的传播，并探索未来军械库事件的潜力，如亨利八世（伦敦塔，2009）。展览的情感影响评估将由epsrc资助的情感交流研究网络的成员通过AHRC 21世纪设计奖（PI Chris Rust， Sheffield Hallam大学）进行。创新的3D显示软件和项目网站由谢菲尔德部落集团和申请人的dti KTP提供支持。展览前和展览后的测试将由切斯特菲尔德圣玛丽高中的历史、英语和信息通信技术学生进行。四份原始手稿中的一份将在一个密封的玻璃盒子里，在低沉而戏剧性的灯光下展出，形成展览的中心。参观者与手稿的第一次接触将是通过手稿手稿的3D沉浸式体验（软件由tribe， Genesys和ZOO Digital提供；硬件由intion和Eon提供）。它的虚拟“页面”将是可全面探索的（不像真实的物体），并且可以与内容和材料的不同方面进行互动。几个关键主题将涉及：百年战争，杰汉·弗罗伊萨特和他的编年史，14世纪晚期的冲突，政治和战争，武器，盔甲和战斗人员，城堡中的生活，攻城战争，统治者，王国和宣传，还有：编年史：从羊皮到羊皮纸书，皮埃尔·德·利弗尔手稿；斯通赫斯特手稿和它的10个“亲戚”（来自巴黎、伦敦、纽约、贝萨农和图卢兹的彩绘手稿）每个主题区都将具体介绍军械库最常见的游客群体，根据他们的好奇心、可能的参与度和注意力持续时间来确定。还将考虑到不同年龄组和残疾人的特殊需要。PDA设备与RFID标签的接口将被用来为参观者提供一系列可选的视听路线，通过展览（谢菲尔德大学完成博士项目）。斯通赫斯特学院的手稿书和它的虚拟“同伴”将由皇家军械库自己收藏的当代武器和盔甲展览来补充。除了网站资料外，斯通赫斯特手稿书的固定展示将通过互动3D展示，以及由Genesys和ZOO Digital interactive DVD and Video （Sheffield）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，在皇家军械库的其他场馆（伦敦塔、纳尔逊堡和肯塔基州路易斯维尔的弗雷泽）与远程观众分享展览最吸引人、最具创新性的特征。弗雷泽享受联邦资金来支持这种创新；英国皇家军械库博物馆没有这种支持，因此支持申请人目前的申请，用于上述目的。要求：英国《金融时报》技术开发人员的雇佣成本，对军械公司、WUN Grid卑尔根和白玫瑰网格开发成本的贡献，加上安斯沃思教授和罗马诺博士10%的时间。

项目成果

Digital Attraction: from the real to the virtual in manuscript studies

数字吸引力：手稿研究从真实到虚拟

• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, issue on Authenticity
• 作者: Ainsworth PF

e-Science for medievalists: options, challenges, solutions and opportunities

中世纪主义者的电子科学：选择、挑战、解决方案和机遇

• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Digital Humanities Quarterly
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Ainsworth PF

Essays in Later Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane HM Taylor, Ed Rebecca Dixon

中世纪后期法国文学论文集：简·HM·泰勒的遗产、艾德·丽贝卡·迪克森

• 发表时间: 2010
• 作者: Ainsworth PF

Optimising the use of Storage Resource Broker to Host Manuscript Images and Virtual Exhibitions Online

优化存储资源代理的使用来托管手稿图像和在线虚拟展览

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Meredith MJ

Breaching the Strongroom : a Pervasive Informatics Approach to Working with Medieval Manuscripts

闯入保险箱:处理中世纪手稿的普遍信息学方法

• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: Proceedings of the KMIS 2011 International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Paris, Université de Créteil
• 作者: Ainsworth PF