Overview
- Provides thorough and multi-faceted research into the efficient use of augmented reality in the interconnected fields of tourism, museums and cultural heritage
- Covers a wide breadth of topics, areas, and applications from: immersive installations to shared visitors’ experience, digital heritage sites to local dining industry, urban novels, and folk songs
- Explores both current and future trends, including challenges caused by COVID-19
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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General Aspects and Augmented Reality in the Tourism Industry
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Augmented Reality for Museums
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Augmented Reality and Cultural Heritage
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About this book
The authors explore the opportunities and challenges of augmented reality applications, their current status and future trends, informal learning and heritage preservation, mixed reality environments and immersive installations, cultural heritage education and tourism promotion, visitors with special needs, and emerging post-COVID-19 museums and heritage sites.
Augmented Reality in Tourism, Museums and Heritage: A New Technology to Inform and Entertain is essential reading not only for researchers, application developers, educators, museum curators, tourism and cultural heritage promoters, but also for students (both graduates and undergraduates) and anyone who is interested in the efficient and practical use of augmented reality technology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Augmented Reality in Tourism, Museums and Heritage
Book Subtitle: A New Technology to Inform and Entertain
Editors: Vladimir Geroimenko
Series Title: Springer Series on Cultural Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70198-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70197-0Published: 25 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70200-7Published: 26 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70198-7Published: 24 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2195-9056
Series E-ISSN: 2195-9064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 322
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Cultural Heritage, Computers and Society