Immersive Installation: “A Virtual St Kilda”

John Philip McCaffery; Sarah Elizabeth Kennedy; Alan Henry David Miller; Iain Angus Oliver; A. Watterson; Colin Allison

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_9

Immersive Installation: “A Virtual St Kilda”

John Philip McCaffery, Sarah Elizabeth Kennedy, Alan Henry David Miller, Iain Angus Oliver, A. Watterson, Colin Allison

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Abstract

This paper discusses a Virtual Histories project, which developed a digital reconstruction of St Kilda. St Kilda is the most remote and western part of the United Kingdom. It was evacuated in the 1930s and lay empty for several decades. It is a world heritage site for both built and natural environment . The Virtual St Kilda acted as a focus for the collection and presentation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It was on show as an exhibition in the Taigh Chearsabah museum (Figure 5) located in North Uist Scotland. The exhibition is built around the OpenSimulator Open VirtualWorld server using commodity hardware. The simulation covers some 4 square km of virtual space, and models both tangible and intangible culture. It is integrated into an exhibition and articulates an interpretation of the St Kilda legacy through the prism of contemporary North Uist life.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Immersive Education
Subtitle of host publication	4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Mark Ebner, Kari Erenli, Rainer Malaka, Johanna Pirker, Aaron E. Walsh
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	101-113
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319220178
ISBN (Print)	9783319220161
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_9
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2015
Event	4th European Immersive Education Summit - University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Vienna, Austria Duration: 24 Nov 2014 → 26 Nov 2014 Conference number: 4 http://immersiveeducation.org/EUROPE

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	486
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	4th European Immersive Education Summit
Abbreviated title	EiED 2014
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	24/11/14 → 26/11/14
Internet address	http://immersiveeducation.org/EUROPE

Keywords

Virtual worlds
Museum studies
Immersive technology
Cultural heritage
Reconstruction
Community involvement
OpenSim

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McCaffery, J. P., Kennedy, S. E., Miller, A. H. D., Oliver, I. A., Watterson, A., & Allison, C. (2015). Immersive Installation: “A Virtual St Kilda”. In M. Ebner, K. Erenli, R. Malaka, J. Pirker, & A. E. Walsh (Eds.), Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 101-113). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 486). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_9

McCaffery, John Philip ; Kennedy, Sarah Elizabeth ; Miller, Alan Henry David et al. / Immersive Installation : “A Virtual St Kilda”. Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Mark Ebner ; Kari Erenli ; Rainer Malaka ; Johanna Pirker ; Aaron E. Walsh. Cham : Springer, 2015. pp. 101-113 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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McCaffery, JP, Kennedy, SE , Miller, AHD , Oliver, IA, Watterson, A & Allison, C 2015, Immersive Installation: “A Virtual St Kilda”. in M Ebner, K Erenli, R Malaka, J Pirker & AE Walsh (eds), Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 486, Springer, Cham, pp. 101-113, 4th European Immersive Education Summit, Vienna, Austria, 24/11/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_9

Immersive Installation: “A Virtual St Kilda”. / McCaffery, John Philip; Kennedy, Sarah Elizabeth ; Miller, Alan Henry David et al.
Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Mark Ebner; Kari Erenli; Rainer Malaka; Johanna Pirker; Aaron E. Walsh. Cham: Springer, 2015. p. 101-113 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 486).

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McCaffery JP, Kennedy SE , Miller AHD , Oliver IA, Watterson A, Allison C. Immersive Installation: “A Virtual St Kilda”. In Ebner M, Erenli K, Malaka R, Pirker J, Walsh AE, editors, Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer. 2015. p. 101-113. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_9

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