LabInVirtuo

The hypothesis we defend is twofold: 1) the immersion of the users in a "Sensory Realistic Intelligent Virtual Environment" (EVIRS) where the body is engaged from a kinematic, gestural and sensory point of view will result in: a) an increased recovery of the various procedural, episodic and autobiographical memories that are usually interrogated in the classical framework of oral archive productions ; b) beyond declarative knowledge, the possibility of capturing gestures and embodied knowledge; c) a better memorization of the knowledge proposed in mediation; 2) Collaborative Virtual Reality (VR) makes it possible, over and above traditional approaches in humanities, to develop multidisciplinary research methods and innovative mediations with a qualitative and quantitative leap in the elicitation and restitution of knowledge and know-how. The project is in the field of knowledge engineering, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Digital Humanities (DH), on the topic: "Human activity versus history and heritage of industrial and sensorial cultural landscapes" as a demonstration. Our objectives are to develop and validate : a) virtual laboratories and interdisciplinary research methods in the crossed field of human sciences and computer science based on demonstrators of strong historical and heritage interest; b) collaborative methods involving both institutional (museums, etc.) and non-institutional (workers, etc.) players in the field of cultural history and the digital preservation of industrial occupations; c) scenarios located in the SRIVE and dedicated to mediation.