Real virtuality: use of hypermedia and VR in the field of education and cultural heritage

Author

Ronchi, Alfredo M.

Author_Institution

Dept. ISET, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

7-11 Jul 1997

Abstract

This paper briefly introduces a couple of projects that represent the work currently in progress care of the ISET Department of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in the field of Cultural Heritage and Educational Multimedia. The first project started two years ago, and aims to create a virtual environment in education and training; a first phase pilot project is actually running as a support to computer aided design course. The second project, is called Museums Over States and Virtual Culture (MOSAIC) co-funded by the European Commission in the TEN Telecom framework. Both this projects are taking advantage from the combined use of VR and hypermedia

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; education; humanities; hypermedia; project engineering; virtual reality; Europe; Italy; MOSAIC; computer aided design course; cultural heritage; education; hypermedia; projects; training; virtual environment; virtual reality; Application software; Computer graphics; Computer science education; Cultural differences; Design automation; Educational institutions; Europe; Laboratories; Seminars; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 1997. ISIE '97., Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guimaraes

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3936-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.1997.651770

Filename

651770