Evaluation of Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Tourism Destinations
Published 1 January 2012
María Teresa Linaza, David Marimón, Paula Carrasco, R. Álvarez, Javier Montesa, Salvador Ramón Aguilar
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The Mobi AR platform is described and the evaluation process that has been applied to the MobiAR application is presented, in order to gather the opinion of real users.
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Every city contains interesting places and stories to be discovered. Mobile Augmented Reality provides the means to enrich tourists through precise and tailored information about the surroundings of the area they are visiting. MobiAR is an AR platform based on Android, which assists users who need tourist information about a city. When users observe reality through the MobiAR application via their mobile devices, they can experience events that took place at their location through multimedia content, and can access useful information to plan their routes in the city. This paper describes the MobiAR platform and presents the evaluation process that has been applied to the MobiAR application, in order to gather the opinion of real users.
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