Central Land Council Press Release: Traditional owners of Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) have invested their rent income from the Yeperenye/Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park in an interactive visitor experience at the sacred site near Alice Springs. They will launch the interactive tour with CLC chair Francis Kelly, the Member for […]
aboriginal • Anthwerrke • application • Arrernte • Australia • dreaming • Emily Gap • interactive • songline • tour • traditional ownersGlottolog Data Explorer
The aim of this web application is to draw attention to the pressing issue of language endangerment. We hope that the map illustrates the huge number of distinct languages around the world in the present day, and implies that there is much to be lost, socially and culturally, if the […]
application • database • endangered language • Glottolog • indigenous language • interactive • mappingThe Glottolog Data Explorer: Mapping the world’s languages
We present THE GLOTTOLOG DATA EXPLORER, an interactive web application in which the world’s languages are mapped using a JavaScript library in the ‘Shiny’ framework for R (Chang et al., 2016). The world’s languages and major dialects are mapped using coordinates from the Glottolog database (Hammarström et al., 2016). The […]
2016 • application • database • endangered language • Glottolog • indigenous language • interactive • mappingDesign Interactions in ʔeləw̓ k ̓ʷ — Belongings
Our pictorial visually describes ʔeləw̓ k ̓ʷ — Belongings, an interactive tangible tabletop installed in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The tabletop was designed to communicate the continuity of Musqueam culture, convey the complexity of belongings that were excavated from Musqueam’s ancient village site, and […]
2016 • Belongings • design • interactive • knowledge tradition • Musqueam • oral history • tabletop • tangible system • user interface • ʔeləw̓ k̓ʷʔeləw̓ k ̓ʷ — Belongings: A Tangible Interface for Intangible Cultural Heritage
ʔeləw̓ k̓ʷ — Belongings is an interactive tabletop using a tangible user interface to explore intangible cultural heritage. The table was designed for the c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city exhibition. This exhibition is a partnership of three major institutions in Vancouver, BC, exploring the significant ancient village site on […]
2016 • Belongings • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • intangible • interactive • museum • Musqueam • tabletop • user interface • ʔeləw̓ k̓ʷJournal of Interactive Humanities
The humanities have begun to embrace digital technology as a means of expressing scholarship and thought. However, it has become apparent that humanities content cannot simply be transferred into these new media. The humanities may be making the mistake it has observed of other fields: “Part of the problem seems […]
cultural heritage • design • digital heritage • digital humanities • interactive • research • technologyStory Guided Virtual Cultural Heritage Applications
Virtual cultural heritage applications, particularly virtual museums, nowadays include various forms of storytelling. Every object, site or artifact is better perceived and understood through the adjoining story. Interactive applications naturally request the storytelling to become interactive as well. This paper describes the concepts of interactive digital storytelling in our virtual […]
2014 • cultural heritage • digital storytelling • interactive • storytelling • user experience • virtual museum