Interaction Design for Stratigraphic Analysis in Archaeology
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چکیده
Stratigraphic analysis, as defined my Harris in his Matrix approach, constitutes one of the most diffused analysis methods in archaeology. After a long collaboration with Archaeologists and other domain experts, we developed a second version of ArchMatrix, a system for graph-based interaction with excavation data. This system aims at solving the challenges that affect the archaeological practice given by its peculiar distributed environment. This position paper presents an overview of the research domain, the ArchMatrix system and the results of the preliminary usability tests with the end users.
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