| Title |
Development of Augmented Reality (AR) Smartphone Application for Hwaseong Fortress Tourism |
| Authors |
Kim, Changhyuk ; Song, Kisu ; Baek, Seunghyeun ; Kim, Jinyoung |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2018.34.8.87 |
| Keywords |
Hwaseong Fortress of Suwon ; Architectural Contents ; Augmented Reality (AR) ; Tourism ; Mobile application |
| Abstract |
Hwaseong Fortress was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997 in recognition of its architectural, cultural, and historical significance. In order to provide a compelling and active experience to the visitors of Hwaseong Fortress more effectively and intuitively, an augmented reality (AR) mobile application is developed. The main objective of this paper is to describe the implementation of AR technology in the developed application; and most importantly, how the application is designed for the visitors to actively and intuitively experience the various architectural and historical contents of Hwaseong. The tour routes and their point of interests were selected carefully after deliberation of their contents. To maximize the user interaction with the application and the architectural contents of Hwaseong, not only the conventional AR technology (marker method), but also the markerless AR method is adopted in the developed application. It is expected that visitors of Hwaseong Fortress enjoy the tour, while learning the architectural, historical, and cultural contents through the active and intuitive interaction with the developed AR mobile application. |