[POSTER] The Augmented Library: An Approach for Improving Users Awareness in a Campus Library
Albert Aarón Cervera-Uribe · 2017
Most existing libraries use floor plans and call numbers in order to locate books rather than providing truly user's awareness of the extensive collections and services for students in the library context. With a collection of more than 48,568 volumes at the Engineering and Exact Sciences library of the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), the task of looking for a book can be really a time-consuming and frustrating task, specially for newcomers. This paper proposes an Augmented Reality (AR) based application which aims to solve users spatial unawareness at library by providing an AR shelf searching system, and to assist students and newcomers by providing a mobile guide with library information services into library. In this work, the results of a pilot study are presented demonstrating that user's experiences and performance at library were enhanced through the use of augmented reality technology.