Spatial sound information/cues may enhance the sense of immersiveness in virtual story telling. However, their role within complex, loosely-structured narratives is little understood. This paper describes a virtual heritage project that aims to convey a factual story using interactive virtual environments. Sound was added to the existing project in an effort to enhance the virtual experience. T...

In this paper are treated briefly the geotechnical analysis of hills slopes areas in the heritage town of Berati, Albania. From engineering geological mapping on scale 1:10 000 and geotechnical investigations carried out in urban area of Berati town was found that two zones are threated from landslides phenomenon. The first one is located in center part, whereas the second in northeast part of ...

Geotourism is a form of nature-oriented tourism devoted to the knowledge and understanding landscape forms geological processes; flora fauna cultural, historical human heritage. The great morphological variability Avellino Province, also called Irpinia, in southern Italy makes this province particular interest for geotourists. Irpinia has unique set geosites, sites cultural interest, archaeolog...

Monuments of natural beauty are protected by international treaties similarly to cultural heritage objects. Some of the them need to be preserved due to abandonment and other need to be protected due to a range of reasons, like for example structural or geological. The paper presents a case study of 3D documentation of a rock cliff, which is protected as a monument of natural beauty. In specifi...

The inventory and assessment of a geosite in territory provides sound basis for the protection use its geological heritage. This article aims to evaluate most relevant geosites province Chimborazo (Ecuador), applying Spanish Inventory Sites Geological Interest (IELIG, Spanish) method, proposing alternatives geotourism development studied area. methodological process was based on: (i) preliminar...

The paper will discuss the problematic approach of ancient landscape reconstruction, stressing the importance of data and information sharing through the web. Thanks to new possibilities offered by Open Source approach and, in specific, by some tools, such as Virtual Terrain and OpenSceneGraaph, it’s now possible to construct a web-based shared system, allowing users and experts to interact dyn...

In this paper we describe an artistic response to a collection of natural history museum artefacts, developed as part of a residency with an arts organisation. Drawing on a critical literature in studies of material culture, the work incorporated data sonification, image audification, field recordings and created a number of instruments for exploring geological artefacts and meterological data ...

a School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia b Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA d Department of Paleontology,...