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The application of a service-orientation on a mobile AR platform to support museum visitor experiences.
Friday 15 May 13:00 until 14:00
Pevensey I, 1A6
Speaker: Sasithorn Rattanarungrot (PhD Student, Informatics)
Part of the series: School of Engineering and Informatics - Work In Progress Seminars
Mobile augmented reality (AR) has become an influential tool for digital content representation in terms of enhancing the users’ experience and improving the adaptability and usability of AR applications. In our research, we have developed a service oriented mobile AR architecture that was exploited in different applications, such as a museum interactive or an e-retail scenario. Our solution enhances closed platform mobile AR applications to create more flexible mobile AR clients that efficiently support content acquisition and utilisation of third party digital media content on a real scene.
Our example web service framework on a mobile AR client exploits museum specific, or third party, APIs that will create a connection to participating web service providers (e.g. Victoria and Albert Museum). A typical media API content request is sent to a content provider to obtain a targeted cultural object’s associated media contents such as 3D models, images, text and videos. Acquired content is then visualised in an AR environment and consumed by mobile users. Other example supporting modules could include a photogrammetry service based on commercial or open source and personalisation that allows a user to request a 3D model of a targeted cultural object for exploiting in a ‘saved museum exhibition’.
By: Luke Scott
Last updated: Wednesday, 13 May 2015