Abstract
Urban parks are important recreational spaces of environmental interest for citizens and city visitors. Targeted and attractive promotion of these areas can help develop alternative forms of “green tourism” and increase environmental awareness among citizens, which is particularly important and vital for the future of the planet. New technologies are a key tool for improving the experience of touring urban parks, as they can make the tour much more attractive by highlighting interesting information about the flora and fauna of the park, as well as various other points of interest. This paper presents an integrated system based on augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and data analytics methodologies, comprising both mobile and web applications, focusing on urban parks touring and management, respectively. Through the mobile app for the park visitors, an attractive, interactive touring environment is created which highlights the environmental and historical interest of those areas. At the same time, the web applications for the park managers receive and analyze visitor data to help improve the visitor experience and the overall quality of the park. Finally, the developed integrated system is evaluated to ensure that it meets all user requirements and that its usability and functional components satisfy both groups of potential users, i.e., park visitors and park managers.
Highlights
Urban parks are a vital part of cities around the world, accepting millions of visitors daily
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The system comprises a mobile application for the park visitors and web applications for park managers
Summary
Urban parks are a vital part of cities around the world, accepting millions of visitors daily. Through proper evaluation of the system, the final goal of this study is to ensure that the developed system meets the user requirements defined prior to its design and development, as well as those specified by the relevant standards for the usability and usefulness of AR-based and statistical data analysis systems, and to assess its usability and functional components by both groups of potential users: park visitors and park managers. To this end, initially, the design and implementation methodologies of the integrated system are presented. In order to communicate as independently and as asynchronously as possible, the architecture incorporates a Data Synchronization Interface, in which the individual communication functions between the subsystems is assembled (Figure 1) [20]
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