3D G[eye]S! Integrating 3D Eye-Tracking and 3D GIS technologies in Archaeology

A project conducted at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, in collaboration between the Digital Archaeology Lab (DARKlab) and the Humanities laboratory has allowed to test a workable pipeline to integrate Virtual Reality-based Eye-Tracking with GIS analytic tools. A sample of users moved in virtually reconstructed 3D space of a historical building (the House of the Greek Epigrams in Pompeii) with the goal of performing well/defined tasks. These tasks were performed according to different illumination conditions, that were set based upon photometric and historically accurate parameters in order to provide a ‘controlled’ and parametrized simulation environment in which to transparently investigate historical hypotheses.