The development of a collaborative virtual environment for 3D reconstruction of cuneiform tablets

Ch'ng, Eugene; Woolley, Sandra I.; Hernandez-Munoz, Luis; Collins, Tim; Lewis, Andrew; Gehlken, Erlend

Abstract

The efficient reconstruction of ancient cuneiform tablets has been a challenging problem over many decades, which if an approach is found to speed up the rate of potential fragment joins, will lead to a discovery of rich historical records of knowledge inscribed 5,000 years ago. This paper describes The Leverhulme Trust funded development of a crowd-sourcing collaborative virtual environment via the identification of cooperative personalities. We conducted experiments in which 12 groups of 3 participants collaborated to reconstruct fragments in a laboratory 3D puzzle virtual environment. Personality types were analysed together with NASA TLX workloads and task performance. We discovered that patterns exist for each of the virtual interaction modalities, demonstrating a potential for profiling systems to group personality types for maximising the effective reconstruction of cuneiform fragments.

• Conference Name: 2014 International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM)
• Conference Location: Hong Kong, China
• Start Date: Dec 9, 2014
• End Date: Dec 12, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Jun 29, 2015
• Publication Date: 2014
• Deposit Date: Nov 9, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VSMM.2014.7136692