Did That Stone Move? Staging stone swarms in galleries and virtual reality

Conference theme: Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs

Conference date: 4–8 July 2022

Keywords: Virtual reality, Mixed reality, Swarm robotics, Human-robot interaction, Photogrammetry, Archaeology

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of a forthcoming interactive multimedia gallery installation, Sacrifice. We introduce the rationale to examine relationships with the human audiences and a swarm of ground robots, through collective movement to engage with audience members. In global collaboration with archaeological researchers and cultural custodians, we have developed photogrammetric models of monoliths to disguise the ground robots. We explain our tandem virtual/actual reality workflow and how it has influenced the evolution of the exhibition concept and may have benefits for practice led design on interdisciplinary projects. We anticipate that the juxtaposition of ancient stonecraft with modern robotic control technologies will provoke a wider discussion about the future of human-robot collaboration in society.

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Elena M. Vella

Daniel A. Williams

Aleks Michalewicz

Airlie Chapman

Robert Ellis Walton

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Publication date: July 2022

Publication date (Print): July 2022

Pages: 229-233

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[0001]The University of

Melbourne, Australia

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.43

SO-VID: 5d056732-39a0-49e4-941a-32fca0cae9bb

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2022

Conference acronym: EVA 2022

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 4–8 July 2022

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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[1] A. AfzalC. Le Goues, M. Hilton and C.S. Timperley (2020) A study on challenges of testing robotic systems, in: 2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST). IEEExs, pp. 96–107.

[2] C. Bartneck and J. Hu (2004) Rapid Prototyping for Interactive Robots. Presented at The 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 136–145.

[3] S. Benford and G. Giannachi (2011) Performing mixed reality. MIT Press.

[4] H KozimaC. Nakagawa and H. Yano (2005) Using robots for the study of human social development, in: AAAI Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics. Citeseer, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

[5] S. SabanovicM.P. Michalowski and R. Simmons (2006) Robots in the wild: Observing human-robot social interaction outside the lab, in: 9th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, 2006. IEEE, pp. 596–601.

[6] E. Sahin and A.F. Winfield (2008) Special issue on swarm robotics. Swarm Intell. 2, 69–72.

[7] T. SetterA. Gasparri and M. Egerstedt (2016) Trust-based interactions in teams of mobile agents. Presented at the American Control Conference.

[8] S. Shaviro (2014) The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism, Posthumanities. University of Minnesota Press.

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