The
Atlanta History Center maintains one of the country’s
largest history museums called The Atlanta History Museum. This
museum contains major exhibitions
on the history of Atlanta, the American Civil War, and Southern
folk arts. The Interactive Media Technology Center at the Georgia
Institute
of Technology designed and programmed a multimedia computer kiosk
for the new permanent exhibit at the museum entitled “Down
the Fairway with Bobby Jones.”
The kiosk is used to educate the public on the history of Georgia
golf and the life of Bobby Jones. Some of the information is available
both as a permanent exhibit in the history center and on the Internet
for use by scholars and the public. IMTC built the interactive
multimedia exhibit to contain much of the Bobby Jones Research
Library, material from the AHC collection, a history of past tournaments
in Georgia, educational opportunities, a complete virtual tour
of the East Lake golf course (including immersive imagery, topography,
and course design), and an interactive module devoted to classic
golf instruction.
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images from the Atlanta History Center Bobby Jones kiosk
The kiosk offered three interactive modules.
Classic Instruction: An interactive module based
on Martin Davis’ book, Classic Instruction. Photographs and
data were extracted from the book to create an interactive experience
comparing classic golf instruction with modern teachings. Bobby
Jones’ narration and film footage was provided from the film
“Bobby Jones: How I Play Golf”. Martin Davis provided
contemporary text and narration of Ben Crenshaw’s techniques.
The photographs of Mr. Jones and Mr. Crenshaw were matted and composited
into one common background (or golf scene) to further enhance the
comparison of the classic and modern golf techniques. The user has
the ability to choose topics illustrating: golf club grip, long
irons, short irons, woods, putting, sand play, chipping, pitching,
and stymie. Once a topic is chosen, the user can view the swing
and hear commentary from different, progressive golf club positions.
Tour of East Lake Golf Club: An interactive history
and tour of a famous golf course in Georgia. This module contains:
three educational movies exploring the history, Golden Age, and
rebirth of Eastlake Golf Club; a tour of the golf course that allows
the user stand at over 50 discrete points on the course and look
around 360 degrees; information regarding yardage, design, hazards,
topography; and an opportunity to play the best hole (hole 15) against
Bobby Jones. Bobby’s imagery is provided by compositing classic
film footage with golf course photographs taken by IMTC. The user
plays a complete hole of golf against Jones by choosing the appropriate
clubs to achieve the lowest score.
Bobby Jones Research Web Site: The website was
developed for researchers interested in exploring Bobby Jones's
life and learning more about the history of golf in Georgia. The
web site is organized into the following sections: an illustrated
timeline of Bobby Jones's life and golfing career, a listing of
articles and books written about Bobby Jones, a listing of winners
of major Georgia golf events, a historical listing of most of the
golf clubs and courses in Georgia, and, a listing of golf related
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