An Initial Framework to Develop a Mobile Five Human Senses Augmented Reality System for Museums
João M. F. Rodrigues, Pedro J. S. Cardoso, Joana de Carvalho Folgado Lessa, João A. R. Pereira, João D. P. Sardo, Marco A. G. de Freitas, J. Semião, Jânio Monteiro, Célia M. Q. Ramos, Roberto Lam, Eduardo Esteves, Mauro Jorge Guerreiro Figueiredo, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, Miguel Gomes, Paulo Bica · Advances in hospitality, tourism and the services industry (AHTSI) book series · 2017
The Mobile Five Senses Augmented Reality System for Museums (M5SAR) project aims to development an Augmented Reality mobile system for museums. Museums are amazing places, where it is important to sensorial augment as much as possible the visits, permitting to see, ear, touch, smell, and taste all the interesting objects there exist. Also fundamental is that visitors with different profiles (child, adult, expert, etc.) can have different experiences when visiting the same object. In the M5SAR system, the visitor uses its smartphone to select the object(s) to explore, and the user interface adapts on-the-fly to the object(s) and user's profile. Simultaneously, when integrated, a paired hardware device allows the extension of the augmented reality system to the human five senses, complementing the visual and auditory information about the objects. This chapter presents the initial framework to develop a five senses mobile adaptive museum system.