Bringing a building into being: A Virtual Reality Application as a non-traditional research output

Westin, Jonathan, 1980 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för Digital Humaniora (CDH),Centrum för kritiska kulturarvsstudier (CCHS),Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion,Centre for Digital Humanities,Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS),Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion

Almevik, Gunnar, 1969 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kulturvård,Department of Conservation

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Intellect, 2022
2022
English.
In: Craft Research. - : Intellect. - 2040-4689 .- 2040-4697. ; 13:2, s. 285-302

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Abstract Subject headings

This article sets out from the digital reconstruction of a historic building and assesses and discusses the use of a Virtual Reality Application as a self-standing research output. Despite the recognized possibilities and the amount of research that goes into the creation of scientific virtual reconstructions, there is still a need for broadly accepted procedures to not only publish them but also incorporate them into the academic systems as research outputs in their own right. The empirical material - a digital reconstruction of a wooden stave church - is here explored as both a hermeneutic device in the research process and a research output. We argue that the use of technology such as virtual reality that can communicate presence is particularly important in research on embodied craft skills and sensory-based judgements to reduce the loss of information in translations between modes, medias and formats. However, to function and have an impact as a research output, new formats have to adapt to fundamental and broadly accepted conventions within academia which have been established by the text-on-paper formats and establish conventions that facilitate access, navigation and referencing.

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