The Tale of the Tokoloshe: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Using Virtual Reality

Milo Marsfeldt Skovfoged; Martin Viktor; Miroslav Kalinov Sokolov; Anders Hansen; Helene Høgh Nielsen; Kasper Rodil

doi:10.1145/3283458.3283484

The Tale of the Tokoloshe: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Using Virtual Reality

Milo Marsfeldt Skovfoged, Martin Viktor, Miroslav Kalinov Sokolov, Anders Hansen, Helene Høgh Nielsen, Kasper Rodil

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This paper documents the process of digitising Intangible Cultural Heritage, namely the oral tradition about the African cautionary tale about the Tokoloshe. First the core concepts of Intangible Cultural Heritage and its digitisation effort are explained. This is followed by an explanation of what the tale of the Tokoloshe entails, and how it was used for constructing a fully playable Virtual Reality environment. The end product is a Virtual Reality installation of the cautionary tale being told around a campfire, from the perspective of an outsider. The player is then possessed by the Tokoloshe and must work with the village witch doctor to cleanse themselves. A full description of what is needed to play the demo is included in the last section of the paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2nd African conference on Computer-Human-Interaction(AfriCHI'2018)
Number of pages	4
Place of Publication	ACM
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2018
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-6558-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3283458.3283484
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	2nd African conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving communities - Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia Duration: 3 Dec 2018 → 7 Dec 2018 Conference number: 2 http://africhi.net/

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Conference	2nd African conference for Human Computer Interaction
Number	2
Location	Safari Court
Country/Territory	Namibia
City	Windhoek
Period	03/12/2018 → 07/12/2018
Internet address	http://africhi.net/

Keywords

Intangible Cultural Heritage
Virtual Reality
Africa
Namibia
Safeguarding
Tokoloshe

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Skovfoged, MM, Viktor, M, Sokolov, MK, Hansen, A, Nielsen, HH & Rodil, K 2018, The Tale of the Tokoloshe: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Using Virtual Reality. in Proceedings of 2nd African conference on Computer-Human-Interaction(AfriCHI'2018) . Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, 2nd African conference for Human Computer Interaction, Windhoek, Namibia, 03/12/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3283458.3283484

The Tale of the Tokoloshe: Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Using Virtual Reality. / Skovfoged, Milo Marsfeldt; Viktor, Martin; Sokolov, Miroslav Kalinov et al.
Proceedings of 2nd African conference on Computer-Human-Interaction(AfriCHI'2018) . ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, 2018.

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