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JoGuide: A Mobile Augmented Reality Application for Locating and Describing

Authors:
Fadi Wedyan
Ibrahim Aloqily
Reema Freihat
Suzan Wedyan

Keywords: Augmented reality; Mobile Computing; Mobile devices;Text in scene images; Android.

Abstract:
Augmented Reality is a variation of virtual reality that allows users to view the real world augmented with virtual objects. Therefore, it can be used to produce systems that provide users with rich information about the scanned area. In this paper, we present an application that locates and provides the users with information about the local surrounding sites. The application, which we call JoGuide, is designed to help users in urban areas or tourism destinations to locate places of interest near them by moving the camera of the device in all possible directions to overlay information of places around them. Places captured by the camera are located by adding bins displaying the place name as defined by Foursquare.com database. JoGuide is developed with Android and is set to run on smartphones and tablets with different screen sizes, computational and memory capabilities.

Pages: 88 to 94

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-468-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016