CityViewAR: a mobile outdoor AR application for city visualization

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Conference Contributions - Published
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University of Canterbury. Human Interface Technology Laboratory
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2012
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Lee, G.
Dünser, A.
Kim, S.
Billinghurst, Mark
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In this paper we introduce CityViewAR, a mobile outdoor Augmented Reality (AR) application for providing AR information visualization on a city scale. The CityViewAR application was developed to provide geographical information about the city of Christchurch, which was hit by several major earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. The application provides information about destroyed buildings and historical sites that were affected by the earthquakes. The geo-located content is provided in a number of formats including 2D map views, AR visualization of 3D models of buildings on-site, immersive panorama photographs, and list views. The paper describes the iterative design and implementation details of the application, and gives one of the first examples of a study comparing user response to AR and non-AR viewing in a mobile tourism application. Results show that making such information easily accessible to the public in a number of formats could help people to have richer experience about cities. We provide guidelines that will be useful for people developing mobile AR applications for city-scale tourism or outdoor guiding, and discuss how the underlying technology could be used for applications in other areas.

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Lee, G., Billinghurst, M. (2012) CityViewAR: a mobile outdoor AR application for city visualization. Dunedin, New Zealand: 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ'12), 2-3 Jul 2012. Proceedings, 97.
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mobile application, outdoor augmented reality, city visualization, earthquake and historical content
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Field of Research::08 - Information and Computing Sciences::0801 - Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing::080111 - Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
Field of Research::12 - Built Environment and Design::1205 - Urban and Regional Planning::120501 - Community Planning
Field of Research::04 - Earth Sciences::0403 - Geology::040313 - Tectonics
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