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

一个名为“描绘中世纪：百年战争中的武器、盔甲和盔甲”的大型国际展览将于2007年秋季至2008年春季在英国利兹的皇家军械博物馆举行。由Leverhulme Trust赞助，它是基于申请人对一组15世纪早期Jehan Froissart编年史的插图手稿完成的研究。这个免费展览为实验软件和网格技术的开发提供了一个极好的平台，以扩大和加强其在这个国家和美国更广泛的公众传播，并探索未来军械库活动的潜力，如亨利八世（伦敦，2009年）。EPSRC资助的情感传播研究网络的成员将对展览的情感影响进行评估，通过AHRC为21世纪设计奖（PI Chris Rust，谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学）。创新的3D显示软件和项目网站由DTI KTP与Tribal Group，谢菲尔德和申请人支持。展览前和展览后的试读将由切斯特菲尔德玛丽高中的历史、英语和信息技术专业的学生进行。四份手稿中的一份将在一个密封的玻璃盒中以低而引人注目的灯光展示，成为展览的中心。参观者与手稿的第一次接触将是通过手稿抄本的3D沉浸式体验（软件由Tribal，Genesys和ZOO Digital提供;硬件由Inition和Eon提供）。它的虚拟“页面”将是全面的探索（不像真实的对象）和热点，使其内容和材料的不同方面的参与。几个关键主题将涉及：百年战争Jehan Froissart和他的编年史14世纪末的冲突，政治和战争武器，装甲和战斗人员城堡中的生活围攻战争统治者，王国和军队还有：编年史制作：从羊皮到羊皮书皮埃尔·德·利福尔手稿：一个中世纪的城堡斯托尼赫斯特曼尼托普特和它的10个“亲戚”（来自巴黎、伦敦、纽约、贝桑农和图卢兹）每个主题区域都将具体参考军械库最常识别的游客群体，根据其合理的深度进行展示。好奇心、可能的参与度和注意力广度。展览会亦会考虑不同年龄组别及残疾人士的特别需要，并会使用附有无线射频识别标签的电子手帐装置，为参观者提供一系列可供选择的视听通道（谢菲尔德大学完成博士项目）。斯托尼赫斯特学院的手抄本和它的虚拟“同伴”将由皇家军械库的当代武器和盔甲的展示来补充。自己的收藏。除了网站材料外，Stonyhurst手稿的固定展示将通过互动3D展示以及Genesys和ZOO Digital Interactive DVD和视频设计的游戏和竞赛进行丰富和扩展（谢菲尔德）.设计展览的过程产生了许多令人兴奋的想法，其中最吸引人的是与皇家军械库其他场馆的远程观众分享展览最吸引人和创新的特点：伦敦塔、纳尔逊堡和肯塔基州路易斯维尔的弗雷泽，使用高速/大容量网格资源。弗雷泽博物馆享有联邦资金支持这种创新;皇家军械博物馆没有这种支持，因此支持申请人为上述目的提出的本申请。要求的：英国《金融时报》技术开发人员的雇佣费用，对Armouries、WUN Grid卑尔根和白色玫瑰网格开发费用的贡献，加上安斯沃思教授和罗马诺博士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.