Document Type
Digital Project
Description
Ghosts of the Horseshoe (Ghosts) is a mobile interactive application that endeavors to bring into view--literally, on mobile micro screens (iPads and iPhones at present)--the largely unknown history of slavery at South Carolina College. It deploys game mechanics (i.e., ludic methods), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and GPS functionality to generate awareness of and questioning about what otherwise seems ordinary: a grassy space at the center of a university campus. It organizes content into distinct but overlapping themes: (1) architectural ghosts (e.g., razed outbuildings); (2) human ghosts (e.g., un/named enslaved persons); and (3) the historic Wall delimiting the Horseshoe grounds.
Ghosts was designed and programmed by the three leads and by the students in two classes at the University of South Carolina.
Date
2014
Access URL
Date of Capture
8-18-2021
Supporting Grants
University of South Carolina ASPIRE II
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Included in
Computer Engineering Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, History Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons
Comments
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