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Articles

• Kurillo, Gregorij
• Forte, Maurizio

Archaeologists collect vast amounts of digital data around the world; however, they lack tools for integration and collaborative interaction to support reconstruction and interpretation process. TeleArch software is aimed to integrate different data sources and provide real-time interaction tools for remote collaboration of geographically distributed scholars inside a shared virtual environment. The framework also includes audio, 2D and 3D video streaming technology to facilitate remote presence of users. In this paper, we present several experimental case studies to demonstrate the integration and interaction with 3D models and geographical information system (GIS) data in this collaborative environment.

• History and Archaeology
• Computer and information sciences

• Αρχαιολογία

Collaborative systems, cyberarchaeology, GIS, remote interaction, data visualization

Corresponding author: mforte@ucmerced.edu, Teleimmersive archeology project was supported by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at University of California, Berkeley. We also acknowledge financial support from NSF grants 0703787 and 0724681, HP Labs, The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) for the implementation of the teleimmersion software.

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