Digital Humanities
My research in the digital humanities is part of the Revealing Cooperation and Conflict Project (RCCP) and focuses on the Spanish medieval city of Plasencia. Headed by Professor Roger L. Martínez-Dávila (University of Colorado), the RCCP project seeks to create an interactive and data-robust digital world in which users can experience the lives and relationships of the Jewish, Catholic and Muslim inhabitants of Plasencia in the 15th century. In Virtual Plasencia, users can replay short stories (derived from archival manuscripts pertaining to Plasencia) or directly navigate and interact with artifacts in order to learn about the cooperative and challenging processes that emerged during this era of intercultural integration and violence in Spain and Europe. Virtual Plasencia also serves as our test bed for the development of new virtual reality technology, including avatar creation, agent based modelling, and crowd navigation.
