Personalized Outdoor AudioTour Guide with Augmented
Reality
Supervisor/S : Mr. S. Vasanthapriyan
Presenter : M.I. Isham Mohamed
EP 945
Department of Computing & Information Systems
Personalization
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Design or tailor to meet an individual's specifications, needs, or preferences(eg) a personalized search engine; personalized learning.
Automated Personalization
Learn from user’s choices Track, where user clicks, his preferred
operating time, his choices Best example are Facebook and Google
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Automated Personalization
A Learning Algorithm for Top-Down XML Transformations Implemented in C# Process XML files on user choice
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Augmented Reality
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Augmented Reality
• a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Uses camera viewport of mobile devices
Very efficient Low cost Easy to implement No super skills needed to use Easier to understand, what is happening
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Why tourism industry?
Giving more foreign currency But yet to be supported with technologies
In Sri Lanka you can see tourists with book and phones off.
Appointing a tour guides are fairly expensive. Digitalizing Sri Lankan tourism industry is certainly
a plus.
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From Sinharaja Hostel
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What really happens is
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Background task
No need for app should be activated A separate thread of app runs as
background task and notify user time to time Mainly with audio alerts
Eg: If this is lunch time, it will check for a restaurant near and tell like “Hi Bob, Hirikatu oya restaurant is 4 km away from here, you can get cheap fired rice and chicken there.
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Technologies Used
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• Combined Motion API• GART Toolkit
Issues and overcomes
Some places are not available in APIs. Using foursquare mobile app, added all those
places
Internet signal is not available in all places. This app caches place details and save them
locally.
Battery consumption. Direct X is the answer. C++ libraries of GART
boosts the performance and uses less battery2012
Conclusion and Future work
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References
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• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh202984(v=vs.105).aspx
• https://foursquare.com/oauth2/authenticate?response_type=token&client_id=SDDBI1SDSDEGVP3YUJGAJC0TRNCKCPA5WABTMYQ5OFBVDOLJ&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.foursquare.com%2Foverview%2Fsamples%2Fexploretips%23&state=users%2Fself
• http://www.microsoft.com/maps/
• http://openweathermap.org/api
Thank you.
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Q / A