Augmented Reality Collaborations: The Augmented Palimpsest

Andrea R. HarbinEnglish Department

State University of New York - Cortland

Tamara F. O’CallaghanEnglish Department

Northern Kentucky University

IKEA Catalogue

Augmented Reality (AR)

“A medium in which digital information is overlaid on the physical world that is in both spatial and temporal registration with the physical world and that is interactive in real time.”

Alan B. Craig, Understanding Augmented Reality (Elsevier, 2013), 36.

The Augmented Palimpsest Project

Dr. Tamara F. O’CallaghanProfessor of English, Northern Kentucky University

Dr. Andrea R. HarbinAssociate Professor of English, State University of New York, Cortland

Dr. Alan B. Craig (project advisor and AR specialist)Independent AR expert and research scientist

Ryan Rocha (independent digital artist)3D modeler and graphic artist

The Augmented Palimpsest

Fiducial markers (more complex and aesthetically pleasing than QR codes) are “hidden” in medieval manuscript border to trigger:

• Audio of passage in Middle English

• Link to digitized image of medieval manuscript page with opening of The Canterbury Tales

• Link to online Middle English glossary

• Link to modern English translation

• 3D model of Canterbury Cathedral

Hours of the Earls of Ormond

Courtesy of the British LibraryBL Harley MS 2887 f.29

The Augmented Palimpsest

• Audio of passage in Middle English

• Link to digitized image of medieval manuscript page with opening of The Canterbury Tales

• Link to online Middle English glossary

• Link to modern English translation

• 3D model of Canterbury Cathedral

Ellesmere Manuscript

Courtesy of The Huntington Library and Digital Scriptorium, Huntingdon EL 26 c 9

The Augmented Palimpsest

• Audio of passage in Middle English

• Link to digitized image of medieval manuscript page with opening of The Canterbury Tales

• Link to online Middle English glossary

• Link to modern English translation

• 3D model of Canterbury Cathedral

Buckler

Bollocks Dagger

Bollocks/Testicular Purse

Geoffrey Chaucer

Wife of Bath’s Horse

Canterbury Cathedral

Collaboration Challenges

• Different discourse communities• Knowledge of the technology• Mode of communication• Time management• Distance

The Augmented Palimpsest