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iTacitus presentation at "The Agenda for a sustainable and competitive European tourism"

iTacitus was presented at "The Agenda for a sustainable and competitive European tourism" and centralised EU financial instruments supporting tourism in Portorož, Slovenia on Tuesday, 10 June 2008. Click to watch the presentation  

Paper to the eChallenges conference in Stockholm in October

We have submitted a paper to the eChallenges conference in Stockholm in October. Here is an abstract of the paper:

Because of the difficulties in navigating public transport networks and finding out about available activities, cultural tourists tend to follow a pre-planned itinerary and to visit a fairly small set of well known attractions. An analogous situation emerges at the cultural heritage sites themselves: while cultural heritage sites typically have a large amount of archive material, only a small amount of information can be presented, therefore visitors tend not to explore the cultural significance of exhibits in depth. Our solution represents a complete mobile information system for travellers intended to encourage exploration. The system consists of three modules: firstly location-based information intended to enhance the cultural tourists understanding and to suggest exploratory activities based on modelling the users interests; secondly ad-hoc itinerary planning functionality to give the user the confidence to explore and a novel augmented reality system for presenting information in a user friendly way using markerless tracking. This paper  covers the research and development aspects of iTACITUS, a sixth framework programme project, reporting on both technical and coordination issues, as well as interaction issues encountered during the project trials.

Kiosk Europe Expo 2008

iTacitus Mobile Augmented Reality at Kiosk Europe Expo 2008 Fraunhofer IGD presented iTacitus Mobile Augmented Reality at the Future Parlour of Kiosk Europe Expo 2008.

On-Site Tests at Reggia Venaria Reale

Fraunhofer IGD tested their markerless tracking for the Augmented Reality module at the iTacitus test site Reggia Venaria Reale near Turin in Italy. Three  locations at the site were selected for the user-tests in july: The yard in front of the main building, Sale Diana inside the main building and Tempio Diana in the garden.

Each location will feature virtual overlays showing their original condition. Only original historic content like drawings and paintings will be used for the augmentation. Therefore IDG developed a reality filter for rendering the environment like a real time drawing.

Traffic and Transport Data

We'll use the data provided by 5T [http://www.5t.torino.it/5t/en/home].