scholarly journals EFFECTS OF INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA ON ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE LEARNING

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (2-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana A. Abubakar ◽  
Puteri Shireen Jahnkassim ◽  
Murni Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Retention Score ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental

This study attempts to determine the effects of three modes of digital media (virtual reality, video, and Web) on architectural heritage learning. It also aims to determine the demographics' effects of museum visitors on learning using interactive digital media. The content of these media focuses on historical and architectural information of a cultural heritage monument at a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This study has employed quasi-experimental method with the use of designated tasks and retention test in real-world setting. It is found that there is a significant difference among these digital media on retention score. Further analysis reveals that virtual reality provides the lowest retention score and contributes to this significant difference when compared to video. There is no significant difference between gender and retention score. However, there is a significant difference among age and retention score. This study contributes towards empirical evidence on the significant use of interactive digital media on architectural heritage learning and provides insights about demographic effects of interactive digital media on architectural heritage learning.

scholarly journals The Wadden Sea as a National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site: Students’ Word Associations with These Two Conservation Designations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8006
Author(s):  
Till Schmäing ◽  
Norbert Grotjohann
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Word Associations ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Significant Difference

The Wadden Sea ecosystem is unique in many respects from a biological perspective. This is one reason why it is protected by national parks in Germany and by its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In biology didactics, there are only a few studies that focus on the Wadden Sea. This work investigates students’ word associations with the two stimulus words “national park” and “UNESCO World Heritage Site”. The survey was conducted among students living directly at the Wadden Sea and among students from the inland. The analysis of the identified associations (n = 8345) was carried out within the framework of a quantitative content analysis to be able to present and discuss the results on a group level. A statistically significant difference was found between the two groups. Overall, results showed that the students made subject-related associations as well as a large number of associations to both stimulus words that could be judged as non-subject-related. In some cases, a connection with the region of residence could be found, but this was not generally the case. Even students’ immediate residential proximity to the Wadden Sea is no guarantee that they have knowledge of the two considered protection terms.

Research Strategy for Studying User's Acceptance of Tourism-Related ITs

2020 ◽  
pp. 1661-1681
Author(s):  
Tan Gek Siang ◽  
Kamarulzaman Ab. Aziz ◽  
Zauwiyah Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Augmented Reality Application

This paper aims to guide future researchers on research strategy for studying user's acceptance of tourism-related Information Technologies (ITs). In a study on user's acceptance of the technological-combination of virtual reality and augmented reality application in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Melaka, the author proposes 11 steps of research strategy which begin with developing the research framework (Step 1), proposing the research hypotheses (Step 2), determining research design (Step 3), designing sampling processes (Step 4), designing questionnaire (Step 5), conducting face validity (Step 6), developing the prototypes (Step 7), conducting pilot testing (Step 8), collecting data (Step 9), analyzing data (Step 10), as well as providing conclusion (Step 11).

Making post-colonial place identity: the regeneration of the St Lazarus neighbourhood, Macau

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Ye
Keyword(s):  
Place Branding ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site

Purpose This study aims to identify how the place identity of the former Portuguese neighbourhood of St Lazarus was reshaped for the purposes of place branding, tourism and consumption in post-colonial Macau. Design/methodology/approach This study sees place identity as a constructed multiplicity whose components are strategically assembled to (re)make the self. It uses the Deleuze–Guattarian theory of assemblage to analyse identity-making, specifically to examine how urban elements, including material content (material qualities of forms, programmes and life) and narrative expressions (interpretations of place), come together to shape the sense of place. Findings The heritage conservation policy and creative district planning guidance are overarching controls. Following them, several material and narrative elements are connected. The colonial character of the architecture is reinforced and an artistic atmosphere is created, while inhabitants’ everyday life is suppressed and the difficult past is almost erased. The newly processed post-colonial identity seems another kind of colonisation. Coloniality as a power relationship continues in a different form. The hidden structure driving these processes is global capitalism. Originality/value Studies on colonial architectural heritage in Macau, particularly outside of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, remain relatively scarce. This study aims to fill this gap and to further examine the Deleuze–Guattarian theory in the context of place study.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES IN THE PRESERVATION OF RIGA’S ARCHITECTURAL CULTURAL HERITAGE / IŠŠŪKIAI, SU KURIAIS SUSIDURIA RYGOS ARCHITEKTŪRINIO KULTŪROS PAVELDO APSAUGA

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Sarmite Barvika ◽  
Sandra Treija ◽  
Egons Berzins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Visible Part ◽  
Historic Centre

Historical buildings are the most visible part of cultural heritage. They make up Latvia’s historical landscape that has been centuries in the making. In the vast majority of cases these buildings are included in the historical cultural heritage of Latvia. However, the practical mechanisms of their preservation (ownership preservation, maintenance, renewal opportunities) and, consequently, their economic potential, still have not yet been fully evaluated. Does cultural value interact with market value? What factors affect urban planning in the Historic Centre of Riga and its PZ – a UNESCO World Heritage site? Answers to these questions, as well as the main challenges in the preservation of values of Riga’s architectural heritage will be discussed in the paper. Istoriniai pastatai – matomiausia kultūrinio paveldo dalis. Jie išryškina šimtmečiais kurtą Latvijos istorinį kraštovaizdį. Dauguma tokių pastatų įrašyta į Latvijos istorinio kultūros paveldo sąrašus. Vis tik praktiniai jų apsaugos mechanizmai (nuosavybės apsauga, priežiūra, atnaujinimo galimybės), o kartu ir ekonominis potencialas dar nėra visapusiškai įvertinta. Ar yra kultūrinės vertės ir rinkos vertės tarpusavio sąveika? Kokie veiksniai turi įtakos Rygos istorinio centro urbanistiniam planavimui – ar tai, pavyzdžiui, buvimas UNESCO pasaulio paveldo sąraše? Bandoma atsakyti į šiuos klausimus, aptariami Rygos architektūrinio paveldo vertybių apsaugos srityje kylantys iššūkiai.

Pure Land UNWIRED

2016 ◽  
pp. 76-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Greuter ◽  
Sarah Kenderdine ◽  
Jeffrey Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Gansu Province ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Western China ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Mogao Grottoes ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Single User ◽  
The Many

The Mogao Grottoes located in Gansu Province of north-western China consist of 492 cells and cave sanctuaries carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River in Mogao. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, they comprise the largest, most richly endowed, and oldest treasure house of Buddhist art in the world. However, for preservation and conservation reasons most of the caves are now closed to the public. This chapter discusses the range of technologies currently available for the virtual representation of Cave 220, just one of the many caves located at this site. In particular, the chapter focuses on the latest prototype, developed by the authors called Pure Land UNWIRED which uses a virtual reality platform specifically designed for a unique single user full-body immersive virtual reality experience. The discussion includes technical and evaluative analysis of this prototype.

Pure Land UNWIRED

2018 ◽  
pp. 1679-1701
Author(s):  
Stefan Greuter ◽  
Sarah Kenderdine ◽  
Jeffrey Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Gansu Province ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Western China ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Mogao Grottoes ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Single User ◽  
The Many

The Mogao Grottoes located in Gansu Province of north-western China consist of 492 cells and cave sanctuaries carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River in Mogao. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, they comprise the largest, most richly endowed, and oldest treasure house of Buddhist art in the world. However, for preservation and conservation reasons most of the caves are now closed to the public. This chapter discusses the range of technologies currently available for the virtual representation of Cave 220, just one of the many caves located at this site. In particular, the chapter focuses on the latest prototype, developed by the authors called Pure Land UNWIRED which uses a virtual reality platform specifically designed for a unique single user full-body immersive virtual reality experience. The discussion includes technical and evaluative analysis of this prototype.

Research Strategy for Studying User's Acceptance of Tourism-Related ITs

2016 ◽  
pp. 277-297
Author(s):  
Tan Gek Siang ◽  
Kamarulzaman Ab. Aziz ◽  
Zauwiyah Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Augmented Reality Application

This paper aims to guide future researchers on research strategy for studying user's acceptance of tourism-related Information Technologies (ITs). In a study on user's acceptance of the technological-combination of virtual reality and augmented reality application in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Melaka, the author proposes 11 steps of research strategy which begin with developing the research framework (Step 1), proposing the research hypotheses (Step 2), determining research design (Step 3), designing sampling processes (Step 4), designing questionnaire (Step 5), conducting face validity (Step 6), developing the prototypes (Step 7), conducting pilot testing (Step 8), collecting data (Step 9), analyzing data (Step 10), as well as providing conclusion (Step 11).

Chemostratigraphy of Cumberland Group (Pennsylvanian) strata influenced by salt tectonics, Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, eastern Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 969-985
Author(s):  
Fadel Bahr ◽  
Dave Keighley
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Weathering ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Salt Tectonics ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Grande Anse

ABSTRACT The Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of the western Cumberland Basin has been influenced by salt tectonics, specifically the formation of the Minudie Anticline, a salt wall. South of the Minudie Anticline, along the shoreline of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site, the post–Boss Point Formation succession comprises an ∼ 3 km succession of strata assigned to the Little River, Joggins, Springhill Mines, and Ragged Reef formations. North of the Minudie anticline, the Grande Anse Formation lies in angular unconformity on the Boss Point and basal Little River formations. Biostratigraphic studies have not been able to discern whether the Grande Anse Formation is equivalent to all, or just one, of the Joggins to Ragged Reef units south of the salt wall (the Minudie Anticline). To further investigate the relationship of the Grande Anse Formation with the units along the Joggins shoreline, forty sandstone samples from the post–Boss Point Fm strata were selected for a chemostratigraphic study, using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to determine major-element compositions. Transformed ICP-MS data, subjected to a Kruskal-Wallis test and post-hoc tests, show that there is no significant difference between Grande Anse and Ragged Reef formations in the mean values of almost all analyzed elements. In contrast, there are significant differences when comparing these two units and the older Little River, Joggins, and Springhill Mines formations in the case of elements usually encountered in detrital mineral phases (Si, Al, Ti, Na, and Fe). Sandstones of the Grande Anse and Ragged Reef formations show greater compositional maturity than the Little River, Joggins, and Springhill Mines formations. This trend is explained by a gradual overall change in paleoclimate from semiarid conditions during deposition of the Little River Formation to humid conditions during deposition of the Grande Anse and Ragged Reef formations, causing greater chemical weathering of the sediment. These findings indicate that > 2 km of sediment (Little River, Joggins, and Springhill Mines formations) accumulated south of the salt wall during the major episode of salt diapirism, followed by erosion of any topographic high associated with the salt wall, and accumulation of a further > 500 m of sediment (the laterally equivalent Ragged Reef and Grand Anse formations), all within a timespan of only ∼ 2 Myr.

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