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CFRP

Understanding French theater history with AR

Tyler Angert, Yichen Jia

CMS.833 Digital Humanities

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Problems:

Solutions:

The data need to be visualized with the historical environment

Students needs to feel like they can be a part of the theater.

Augmented Reality is probably the way to go.

How do we think about historical context in education?

What makes students more engaged with material?

How can emerging technologies make data more tangible?

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Design ideas

Augmented Reality environment

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Theatres projected in empty classroom

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Tickets selling information represented in 3D space

User interface on the ground / is “built into” the visualization

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Step on buttons to select theatres

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UI Brainstorming

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Concept for stage-centric UI

Instead of creating a UI separate from the visualization, we wanted to create the UI as the theater.

Students can swipe through time periods with a slider that follows the shape of the stage.

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Prototyping

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3D Models with UI Overlay

As students slide through different time periods, the overlaid bar charts change height to show the relevant data.

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Theater-selection concept