Multisensory Virtual Experience of Tanning in Medieval Coventry

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dc.contributor.authorDong, Yuanfaen_US
dc.contributor.authorWebb, Marken_US
dc.contributor.authorHarvey, Carloen_US
dc.contributor.authorDebattista, Kurten_US
dc.contributor.authorChalmers, Alanen_US
dc.contributor.editorTobias Schreck and Tim Weyrich and Robert Sablatnig and Benjamin Stularen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-27T06:39:31Z
dc.date.available2017-09-27T06:39:31Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn the medieval period, Coventry, in the English Midlands was a major centre for tanning as well as for its better-known cloth industry. Heavily damaged during the Second World War, and unsympathetically rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s, there is little left in modern Coventry to remind visitors of this important period in Coventry's history. The tanning of cattle hides was a labour intensive and smelly process. After the hooves and horns had been chopped off the animal skins from butchers, the skins were immersed in pits filled with dog dung or lime, scraped and then sprinkled with urine and left to rot in a warm environment. Finally the hides were soaked for up to twelve months in a tanning liquid to achieve the desired quality of leather. To fully appreciate the medieval tanning process, any virtual recreation needs to be multisensory: the sites of the skins in various stages of processing, the shouts of the workers, and the pungent smells. This paper presents the process of recreating this important multisensory experience and discusses how this can provide visitors with a richer experience of Coventry's illustrious past.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersPresentation and User Experience
dc.description.seriesinformationEurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/gch.20171297
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-03868-037-6
dc.identifier.issn2312-6124
dc.identifier.pages93-97
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/gch.20171297
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/gch20171297
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectVirtual reality
dc.subjectRay tracing
dc.subjectPerception
dc.subjectApplied computing
dc.subjectArchitecture (buildings)
dc.titleMultisensory Virtual Experience of Tanning in Medieval Coventryen_US
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