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Collaborative Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage, Tourist Sites and Museums: Sharing Visitors’ Experiences and Interactions

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Augmented Reality in Tourism, Museums and Heritage

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In this chapter, synergies between augmented reality (AR) and shared experiences are explored. The shared experiences (such as visiting a cultural site or a museum) can benefit from computer-supported collaborative work done in the context of maintenance, training, and simulation. With the wide availability and use of AR-enabled smartphones, it is now possible to create collaborative experiences built upon the knowledge gained from such industry-oriented training applications. This novel approach allows for a greater user engagement fostered by the collaborative nature of an AR shared space. Recent AR works allow for many users to observe the same superimposed object as the group and interact collaboratively with it, as users can see not only the other users but their actions and effects in the virtual elements. This methodology allows for group interaction around tangible cultural points of interest at different scales (such as ruins or buildings but also statues and paintings).

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    Geocaching, https://www.geocaching.com/, last access: October 2020.

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    Niantic, https://nianticlabs.com/, last access: October 2020.

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    Vuforia, AR platform, https://www.ptc.com/en/products/vuforia, last Access: October 2020.

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Th is work is financed by the ERDF—European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation—COMPETE 2020 Programme and by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030740—PTDC/CCI-COM/30740/2017. We would also like to thank the researchers and our students at FEUP and INESC TEC that contributed to the works presented in this chapter.

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Jacob, J., Nóbrega, R. (2021). Collaborative Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage, Tourist Sites and Museums: Sharing Visitors’ Experiences and Interactions. In: Geroimenko, V. (eds) Augmented Reality in Tourism, Museums and Heritage. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70198-7_2

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