Papers by Demetrius Lacet
Virtual tour in the digital TV: Interactive presentation of remote locations using the 360° Google Street View´s immersion methodology
This document presented the relationship between Digital TV - through their interactivity - and v... more This document presented the relationship between Digital TV - through their interactivity - and virtual tours, regarding the presentation of remote locations based on the methodology employed in virtual tours of Google Street View. Briefly expounded the evolution of some issues necessary for the proper understanding of the project as: Virtual Tour, Google Street View, Tourism and Digital TV, drawing parallels and points of encounter between these social and cultural phenomena, and present a reflection on using conceptual image at the expense of its use as a visual representation only. This research was presented a possible adaptation to the Digital TV visitation to remote places through 360° panoramic tours. As validation of the hypothesis, an application was developed for Digital TV containing a virtual tour to a museum in the light of the methods used to develop virtual tours to the internet in order to demonstrate their use successfully in this new platform. As a complement, a WE...
Magical Board Theatre: interactive stories that can be played on multiple boards -two educational prototypes
Work-in-Progress—The Role of Immersion When Designing Characters for Adapting Textual Narratives into Comic Strips for Online Higher Education: Trials Prototyping Characters
2022 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)
This document presented the relationship between Digital TV through their interactivity and virtu... more This document presented the relationship between Digital TV through their interactivity and virtual tours, regarding the presentation of remote locations based on the methodology employed in virtual tours of Google Street View. Briefly expounded the evolution of some issues necessary for the proper understanding of the project as: Virtual Tour, Google Street View, Tourism and Digital TV, drawing parallels and points of encounter between these social and cultural phenomena, and present a reflection on using conceptual image at the expense of its use as a visual representation only. This research was presented a possible adaptation to the Digital TV visitation to remote places through 360° panoramic tours. As validation of the hypothesis, an application was developed for Digital TV containing a virtual tour to a museum in the light of the methods used to develop virtual tours to the internet in order to demonstrate their use successfully in this new platform. As a complement, a WEB sy...
3D in-world Telepresence With Camera-Tracked Gestural Interaction
While many education institutes use Skype, Google Chat or other commercial video-conferencing app... more While many education institutes use Skype, Google Chat or other commercial video-conferencing applications, these applications are not suitable for presenting architectural or urban design or archaeological information, as they don't integrate the presenter with interactive 3D media. Nor do they allow spatial or component-based interaction controlled by the presenter in a natural and intuitive manner, without needing to sit or stoop over a mouse or keyboard. A third feature that would be very useful is to mirror the presenter's gestures and actions so that the presenter does not have to try to face both audience and screen. To meet these demands we developed a prototype camera-tracking application using a Kinect camera sensor and multi-camera Unity windows for teleconferencing that required the presentation of interactive 3D content along with the speaker (or an avatar that mirrored the gestures of the speaker). Cheaply available commercial software and hardware but coupled ...
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Oct 23, 2019
This article presents an approach that allows the reuse of choreographies of digital stories, reg... more This article presents an approach that allows the reuse of choreographies of digital stories, regardless of the platform for which they have been developed. Nowadays, story choreographies are linked to either game technology, simulations or interactive animations for which they have been implemented, so they become unavailable as these platforms become obsolete. This limits their reuse, because to perpetuate these digital stories requires new and repeated efforts and investments in its recreation for new technological platforms that appear in substitution of the previous ones. We propose a methodology to safeguard the semantics of this "narrative choreographies" in an independent way, allowing them to be automatically adapted to new technological platforms when the original ones become obsolete.
Chapters in books by Demetrius Lacet
Castelo de Vide, 1521. Potencialidades e usos das ferramentas digitais para a análise e divulgação do património histórico urbano no âmbito do projeto FRONTOWNS, 2024
Over the last few decades, the study of medieval urban centres has made significant
progress tha... more Over the last few decades, the study of medieval urban centres has made significant
progress thanks to multidisciplinary approaches and new technologies. This context
allowed for innovative proposals to study and disseminate the cities, especially
digital reconstructions and animations of urban centres. A specific focus of the
FRONTOWNS project was the 3D reconstruction of the town of Castelo de Vide
(Alentejo, Portugal) in the Middle Ages, combining documentary, cartographic,
archaeological and architectural data. The creation of this digital model is making
it possible to study and disseminate the medieval town in an innovative way,
showing the potential of these tools to understand the interactions and fluxes
between medieval urban centres. The preliminary results also provide a reflection
on methodologies and good practices in the development of digital reconstructions
and the challenges faced.
SILVA, Gonçalo Melo da; SILVA, Demetrius Lacet; CUESTA-GÓMEZ, Fabián; TRINDADE, Luísa; PRATA Sara e COSTA, Adelaide Millán, “Castelo de Vide, 1521. Potencialidades e usos das ferramentas digitais para a análise e divulgação do património histórico urbano no âmbito do projeto FRONTOWNS”, in CUESTA-GÓMEZ, Fabián; PRATA Sara; COSTA, Adelaide Millán; PEREIRA, Joana; PACHECO, Mafalda (eds.), Pequenas Cidades no Tempo: as redes urbanas. Lisboa: IEM, Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, 2024, pp. 309-337. ISBN: 978-989-9228-03-0.
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Papers by Demetrius Lacet
Chapters in books by Demetrius Lacet
progress thanks to multidisciplinary approaches and new technologies. This context
allowed for innovative proposals to study and disseminate the cities, especially
digital reconstructions and animations of urban centres. A specific focus of the
FRONTOWNS project was the 3D reconstruction of the town of Castelo de Vide
(Alentejo, Portugal) in the Middle Ages, combining documentary, cartographic,
archaeological and architectural data. The creation of this digital model is making
it possible to study and disseminate the medieval town in an innovative way,
showing the potential of these tools to understand the interactions and fluxes
between medieval urban centres. The preliminary results also provide a reflection
on methodologies and good practices in the development of digital reconstructions
and the challenges faced.
SILVA, Gonçalo Melo da; SILVA, Demetrius Lacet; CUESTA-GÓMEZ, Fabián; TRINDADE, Luísa; PRATA Sara e COSTA, Adelaide Millán, “Castelo de Vide, 1521. Potencialidades e usos das ferramentas digitais para a análise e divulgação do património histórico urbano no âmbito do projeto FRONTOWNS”, in CUESTA-GÓMEZ, Fabián; PRATA Sara; COSTA, Adelaide Millán; PEREIRA, Joana; PACHECO, Mafalda (eds.), Pequenas Cidades no Tempo: as redes urbanas. Lisboa: IEM, Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, 2024, pp. 309-337. ISBN: 978-989-9228-03-0.