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

2022; British Computer Society; Linguagem: Inglês

10.14236/ewic/eva2022.43

1477-9358

Elena M. Vella, Daniel A. Williams, A. Michalewicz, Airlie Chapman, Robert Walton,

Robotics and Automated Systems

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.