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An AR mobile navigation system integrating indoor positioning and content recommendation services

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Over the past few years, with the prevalence of smart mobile devices, several well-known museums and researchers have developed mobile navigation systems to improve the navigation effect for museum visitors. However, most of these systems lack efficient content recommendation, indoor positioning, and augmented reality (AR) display functions, and this situation causes difficulty for visitors to have a personalized and efficient navigation experience. This paper presents an augmented reality mobile navigation system that supports indoor positioning and content recommendation services, which aims to provide personalized suggestions corresponding to the user’s context through the analysis of the interest and location information of visitors. Moreover, combined with the developed markerless augmented reality display functions, this system could effectively enrich and improve visitor’s navigation experience.

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The author would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan for financially supporting this research under Contract No. MOST 105-2632-M-156 -001. Besides, the author would like to acknowledge Yu-Cheng Guo, Shih-Han Chen and Shih-Hui Hung, for their assistance in making this system possible.

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Wang, CS. An AR mobile navigation system integrating indoor positioning and content recommendation services. World Wide Web 22, 1241–1262 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-018-0580-3

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