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Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium

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Szabo, V
Published in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
October 1, 2021

Evaluating scholarly work in extended reality for the humanities requires understanding of both scientific and humanistic standards for the work. This article shows how humanities values and interests intersect, and at times conflict, with norms developed for the medium in scientific contexts, and reflects on the risks humanists take in exploring new approaches to scholarly practice. The discussion draws upon the work of a recent Digital Humanities (DH) institute that reflected on how the Extended Reality (XR) goals of immersiveness, completeness, and realism compete with valuing the visible traces of ambiguity, uncertainly, incompleteness, and foregrounding argument and documentation. It considers approaches to creating evaluation guidelines for XR as an extension of existing DH guidelines published by scholarly societies, and suggests ways in which multiple of these approaches to evaluation might converge in, on the one hand, multi-modal and reflective XR documentation practices that include written supplements, and on the other, in broadening the scope of what kinds of creative and storytelling work fit into academic evaluation contexts in the humanities.

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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2055-768X

ISSN

2055-7671

Publication Date

October 1, 2021

Volume

36

Start / End Page

II273 / II276
 

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Szabo, V. (2021). Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36, II273–II276. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab037
Szabo, V. “Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36 (October 1, 2021): II273–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab037.
Szabo V. Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 2021 Oct 1;36:II273–6.
Szabo, V. “Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 36, Oct. 2021, pp. II273–76. Scopus, doi:10.1093/llc/fqab037.
Szabo V. Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 2021 Oct 1;36:II273–II276.
Journal cover image

Published In

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

DOI

EISSN

2055-768X

ISSN

2055-7671

Publication Date

October 1, 2021

Volume

36

Start / End Page

II273 / II276