Augmented Reality Collaboration: The Augmented Palimpsest Project - Tamara O’Callaghan and Andrea R. Harbin

1. Augmented Reality Collaborations:
The Augmented Palimpsest
Andrea R. Harbin
English Department
State University of New York - Cortland
Tamara F. O’Callaghan
English Department
Northern Kentucky University

2. IKEA Catalogue

3. 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.

4. The Augmented Palimpsest Project
Dr. Tamara F. O’Callaghan
Professor of English, Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Andrea R. Harbin
Associate 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

5. 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

6. Hours of the Earls of Ormond
Courtesy of the British Library
BL Harley MS 2887 f.29

7. 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

8. Ellesmere Manuscript
Courtesy of The Huntington Library and Digital
Scriptorium, Huntingdon EL 26 c 9

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

10. Buckler

11. Bollocks Dagger

12. Bollocks/Testicular Purse

13. Geoffrey Chaucer

14. Wife of Bath’s Horse

15. Canterbury Cathedral

16. Collaboration Challenges
• Different discourse communities
• Knowledge of the technology
• Mode of communication
• Time management
• Distance

17. The Augmented Palimpsest