Presenting the Past

Presenting GENETICS: honoring the past, embracing the future.

Evaluating the Use of Virtual Reality and Multimedia Applications for Presenting the Past

Virtual Reality (VR) applications provide various possibilities for use in cultural heritage interpretation. They offer users (to varying degrees, depending on the type of application) the feeling of immersion in a multimedia environment, giving them the sense that they have been transported to the recreated space, be it the streets of an ancient city or the stadium where the original Olympic G...

Re-Presenting the Past: The Disciplinary History of Indian Sociology and Anthropology

Presenting Past and Present of an Archaeological Site in the Virtual Showcase

In this paper, we present our effort to use augmented reality technology to present an archaeological site inside the “Virtual Showcase”. A real scale model of the ruin of the roman “Heidentor” is complemented with virtual overlays to provide the visitor with additional information about the exhibit and interact with it in various ways. Using an authoring framework developed by us, it is possib...

Re-Presenting the Future of Medicine’s Past: Towards a Politics of Survival1

The ‘death’ of the social history of medicine was predicated on two insights from postmodern thinking: first, that ‘the social’ was an essentialist category strategically fashioned in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and second, that the disciplines of medicine and history-writing grew up together, the one (medicine) seeking to objectify the body, the other (history-writing...