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Authors:
Laurent Antonczak
Catherine Papetti
Keywords: mobile; locative media; mixed reality; tourism; heritage; user-centred; glocal; innovation; mobiquity
Abstract:
Considering the recent media coverage and online discussions about Niantic’s Pokémon GO, most academics and professionals would agree that it is the first app to globally popularise mobile locative media (GPS) and augmented reality (AR), raising its potential as a technological medium and as an interface to offer new possibilities for any user. This paper maps technological and user experience changes undertaken through collaboration and professional practices between creative technologists and prosumers (clients and/or users), as they designed digital environments. Based on the notion of augmented space and/or virtual environments, especially in the Tourism sector, the authors analyse how tacit knowledge and service discovery were utilised to facilitate and integrate innovative, engaging and inclusive mobile experiences. Also, whilst proposing a networked model of content creation in augmented space, this paper reflects on some of the mobile characteristics in relation to a glocal (term coined by Robertson in the 1990s) approach through two specific collaborative research projects: Shangri La and the Mobile Innovation Network Australasia (MINA) app.
Pages: 73 to 77
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017
Publication date: July 23, 2017
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4219
ISBN: 978-1-61208-572-2
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from July 23, 2017 to July 27, 2017