12th Annual Conference

#DigiCom18 

Keynote Address

“Joycestick – Engaging Ulysses In a Virtual Reality Game”

Joseph Nugent is Professor of the Practice in Boston College’s English Department. Professor Nugent’s interests lie at the confluence of Irish Studies, Joyce Studies, and the Digital Humanities. His Digital Humanities courses explore ways in which GIS and off-the-shelf digital text analysis tools can enhance students’ experience of space, actual and literary. He is currently managing an Advanced Topic Seminar exploring VR and immersive technologies. Professor Nugent's technological projects exploit Joyce's texts as windows onto the social and cultural life of fin-de-siecle Dublin. This classroom-laboratory approach has generated products such as the iPhone app, JoyceWays, the e-book Digital Dubliners, and the Dubliners Bookshelf. His digital guide and his 3D immersion experience appeared in Making it Irish, at the McMullen Museum in 2016 and in Boston College Ireland.

An overview of features and collections added to the Digital Commonwealth system over the past year will be provided, and a roadmap for additional features and future system updates will be discussed. In addition, this session will cover usage statistics and user behavior patterns for the Digital Commonwealth collections site, as well as exploring site traffic sources and popular content.