Hearts and minds: The interrogations project

Author

Tsoupikova, Daria ; Coover, Roderick ; Rettberg, Scott ; Nishimoto, Arthur

fYear

2015

fDate

23-27 March 2015

Firstpage

377

Lastpage

377

Abstract

Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is an interactive Virtual Reality narrative performance developed in Unity for the CAVE2™ large-scale 320-degree panoramic virtual reality environment at the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The work provides an experience of true stories of abusive violence, battlefield torture and post-traumatic stress during the American-led counterinsurgency and counter terrorism campaigns in Iraq in the years after September 11, 2001. The immersive virtual reality environment of the CAVE2™ is used to communicate both difficult truths about torture and to produce an affective impression of the how these practices were experienced by individual American soldiers.

Keywords

humanities; virtual reality; CAVE2; EVL; UIC; abusive violence; battlefield torture; digital humanities; electronic visualization lab; interactive virtual reality narrative performance; interrogations project; panoramic virtual reality environment; post-traumatic stress; the University of Illinois Chicago; Heart; Interviews; Navigation; Stress; Three-dimensional displays; Virtual reality; Visualization; Virtual reality; art; digital humanities; immersive environments; storytelling; torture; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality (VR), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Arles

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2015.7223453

Filename

7223453