Publication details
A Mobile Framework for Tourist Guides
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Workshop on Virtual Museums, 8th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST '07) |
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| Web | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~liarokap/publications/VAST2007Workshop.pdf |
| Description | Open-air heritage sites have started making use of different types of tourist guides in order to attract a larger number of visitors as well as educate them in a more challenging manner. However, most of them are still using static audio-visual guides which usually require input from visitors to operate. On the contrary, location-based heritage guides offer a number of advantages over traditional tourist guides ranging from advanced visualisation to intuitive interaction. This paper, presents a novel multimodal mobile framework for tourist guides which can be used in any open-air heritage exhibition. The proposed mobile system allows tourists to switch between three different presentation guides including map, virtual and augmented reality. Localisation of the visitors is established based on position and orientation sensors which are integrated on light-weight handheld devices. To illustrate some of the capabilities of the mobile system two case-studies are presented. |