Telearch - Integrated visual simulation environment for collaborative virtual archaeology.

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. TELEARCH INTEGRATED VISUAL SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ARCHAEOLOGY Gregorij Kurillo1 and Maurizio Forte2 1 University of California,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 736 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley 2 University of California, Merced, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Corresponding author: mforte@ucmerced.edu Received: 10/02/2012 Accepted: 23/02/2012