Abstract
Abstract. Mobile devices provide an increasingly sophisticated support to enhanced experiences and understanding the remote past in an interactive way. The use of augmented reality technologies allows to develop mobile applications for indoor exploration of virtually reconstructed archaeological places. In our work we have built a virtual reconstruction of a Roman Villa with data arising from an urgent partial excavation which were performed in order to build a car parking in the historical city of Valladolid (Spain). In its current state, the archaeological site is covered by an urban garden. Localization and tracking are performed using a combination of GPS and inertial sensors of the mobile device. In this work we prove how to perform an interactive navigation around the 3D virtual model showing an interpretation of the way it was. The user experience is enhanced by answering some simple questions, performing minor tasks and puzzles which are presented with multimedia contents linked to key features of the archaeological site.
Highlights
Most conventional approaches to display Cultural Heritage (CH in the successive) contents consist of showing image and video contents which are streamed from multimedia repositories
Our software provides a support for different multimedia contents, which can be displayed from an approximate location in an interactive and ludic way
We provide answers to several basic issues concerning to the communication of CH contents by following an interactive strategy based in games with CH contents in historic urban environments
Summary
Most conventional approaches to display Cultural Heritage (CH in the successive) contents consist of showing image and video contents which are streamed from multimedia repositories. The main problem is how to manage the huge amount of knowledge in an attractive way for most people, in order to provide a consciousness of users as citizens This far-reaching goal concerns to more efficient ways of Edutaintment based in enhanced presentations of multimedia contents. We intend to provide an Internet support to create new digital contents and constructing an European citizenship aware of CH richness as a reference for diversity, tolerance and common values sharing. Neither of these technological solutions contributes to make more sustainable the CH tourism if there are no visitors
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