This is a small talk on an Educational experience at the Open University of Catalonia regarding the use of Augmented Reality to build landscape experiences. This experience is carried out by students of Cultural Heritage.

1. Landscape and
Augmented Reality
Community Initiatives & Laboratori del Nou Turisme
Luis Villarejo Francesc Gonzàlez Reverté
Office of Learning Technologies Oriol Miralbell Izard
Joan Miquel Gomis López
Laboratori del Nou Turisme
December 2011
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0. Learning & Augmented Reality
Mobile devices provide us with:
Connectivity Multimedia contents Geolocation
Camera AR software
Image recognition
Others...

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1. Cultural Heritage pilot project goals
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Provide students with deep landscape understanding
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Provide students with basic AR understanding
Secondary:
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Definition of touristic resources ading value to landscape.
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First step towards the creation of a tourist product with location-based
contents.

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1. Cultural Heritage pilot project
40 students divided into 10 groups:
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Los Ports ●
Valls d'Olot
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Litoral Baix Ebre ●
Valls Camprodon
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Baix Priorat ●
Salines – L'Albera
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Cap de Creus
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Mont-sec
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Estany de Banyoles
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Alt Gaià

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2. Innovation in Learning through Augmented Reality
Laboratori del nou Eines per a la
Turisme (LNT) comunitat
Students

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Hoppala

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Hoppala (II)

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Layar

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Support blog at
http://pretoria.uoc.es/wpmu/hoppala

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State
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Pedagogical guide | AR guide | Support blog built & distributed.
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Hoppala & Layar working environments and accounts configured
and ready to be used.
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December, 10th students started to work on it.
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Devices will be distributed among students next week.

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&
laboratori del nou turisme
It will look like this
Luis Villarejo
lvillarejo@uoc.edu