Title
Exploring spatial narratives and mixed reality experiences in Oakland Cemetery
Abstract
The Historic Oakland Cemetery in downtown Atlanta provides a unique setting for exploring the challenges of location-based mixed-reality experience design. Our objective is to entertain and educate visitors about historically and culturally significant events related to the deceased inhabitants of the cemetery. We worked with the constraints and affordances of the physical environment of the cemetery to design an audio-based dramatic experience. The dramatic narrative is realized through voice actors who play the parts of cemetery residents and tell stories about the time periods in which they lived. The experience provides navigation and linearity through a main narrator who guides visitors to various gravesites. While at each grave, the visitor can choose from several categories of content using a handheld controller. Formative evaluations conducted with users in the cemetery indicate strengths of the current experience and suggest ideas for continued development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1178477.1178484
Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
downtown atlanta,audio-based dramatic experience,cemetery resident,location-based mixed-reality experience design,current experience,deceased inhabitant,culturally significant event,spatial narrative,historic oakland cemetery,mixed reality experience,continued development,dramatic narrative,experience design,formative evaluation,mixed reality
Computer science,Downtown,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Mixed reality,Atlanta,Affordance,Visitor pattern,Formative assessment
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-110-4
30
2.74
References 
Authors
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven Dow1125292.97
Jaemin Lee21159.25
Christopher Oezbek315813.13
Blair Maclntyre4545.92
Jay David Bolter538954.81
Maribeth Gandy653754.07