Surrogate Tools: 

Interactive systems that create experiential simulations will
provide instructional or interpretive information about objects
and tools that would not ordinarily be encountered or handled. 
In these systems, the user will wield an electronic baton,
analogous to a joy stick, as an interface device in free space. 
The user will be presented with selections from the system menu
which will endow the baton with the traits of specified
preservation tools and historic implements.  After a selection is
made, the computer controlled sensory encounter will allow the
user to experience the qualities that characterize the tool and
the techniques for using it: the subtleties of style, balance,
and presentation.  The 3-D display of the surrogate experience
will show the system user attired in the appropriate period
costume.  The motions of the baton in free space will be
monitored by the system and displayed on the 3-D screen in the
context of the task activity assigned to the baton as the
surrogate tool.  The system will constitute an environment for
interactive learning, providing instantaneous feedback from the
computer information base about the handling and application of
the implement.  Both visual (on the screen) and audible (the
sound of the tool in use and verbal commentary) sources will
instruct the user.  

<ffile54>   3-D Display
<ffile64>   Computing Virtual Reality
<bfile26>   Crafts Education