Paper Info
Title
Empirical Evaluation of Smartphone Augmented Reality Browsers in an Urban Tourism Destination Context
Abstract
Today, exposure to new and unfamiliar environments is a necessary part of daily life. Effective communication of location-based information through location-based services has become a key concern for cartographers, geographers, human-computer interaction and professional designers alike. Recently, much attention was directed towards Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces. Current research, however, focuses primarily on computer vision and tracking, or investigates the needs of urban residents, already familiar with their environment. Adopting a user-centred design approach, this paper reports findings from an empirical mobile study investigating how tourists acquire knowledge about an unfamiliar urban environment through AR browsers. Qualitative and quantitative data was used in the development of a framework that shifts the perspective towards a more thorough understanding of the overall design space for such interfaces. The authors analysis provides a frame of reference for the design and evaluation of mobile AR interfaces. The authors demonstrate the application of the framework with respect to optimization of current design of AR.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.4018/ijmhci.2014040102
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
geo-referenced data,tourism,urban legibility,smartphone,urban,visual salience,augmented reality,user-centered design
Design space,Computer science,Urban environment,Tourism,Augmented reality,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Frame of reference,User-centered design
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
2
1942-390X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.48
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zornitza Yovcheva1151.14
Dimitrios Buhalis232143.63
Christos Gatzidis350.48
Corné P.J.M. van Elzakker450.48