Search results for "urban exploration"
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Interweaving visual and audio-haptic augmented reality for urban exploration
2018
While ordinary touchscreen-based interfaces on urban explorer applications draw much of a user's attention onto the screen, visual and audio-haptic augmented reality interfaces have emerged as the two main streams for enabling direct focus on the surroundings. However, neither interface alone satisfies users in the highly dynamic urban environment. This research investigates how the two complementary augmentation can coexist on one system and how people adapt to the situation by selecting the more suitable interface. A prototype was deployed in a field experiment in which participants explored points of interest in an urban environment with both interfaces. The engagement with the surroundi…
Abitare i paesaggi inattesi: DOM – e la pratica del cammino
2022
Urbanized territories have expanded invading the space and modifying the dynamics defined over the centuries of slow development, often making the city indistinguishable from the non-city. In this condition, an unforeseen form of landscape takes place and determines itself, unexpectedly interposing between the planned meshes. By appropriating spaces transitorily rejected by hyper-functionalization, wild environments nomadically occupy empty sites until a new order to come. The practice of walking to cross spaces is an experience of comprehension that allows human beings a renewed way of dwelling in the world. The article assumes that the design process over wild areas continue to occur thro…
Attraversare l’inatteso selvatico urbano. Un’esperienza di cammino con Stalker a Roma est
2021
Italian cities have undergone in the past century a rapid development which has generated abandoned areas within its limits. Many of these places are now uncultivated and rich in spontaneous vegetation. The article reports the relationship between a wild area in eastern Rome, the ex-SNIA-Viscosa Lake, from which the artistic group Stalker has started some walking experiences. During the crossing of the wild spaces that characterize this part of the city, questions emerged related to the link between a community and unpredictable nature, the search for new approaches to conservation and the planning of natural spaces in the city.
Combining intelligent recommendation and mixed reality in itineraries for urban exploration
2017
Exploration of points of interest (POI) in urban environments is challenging for the large amount of items near or reachable by the user and for the modality hindrances due to reduced manual flexibility and competing visual attention. We propose to combine different modalities, VR, AR, haptics-audio interfaces, with intelligent recommendation based on a computational method combining different data graph overlays: social, personal and search-time user input. We integrate such features in flexible itineraries that aid different phases and aspects of exploration.
Designing for Mixed Reality Urban Exploration
2021
Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreement no 601139) and the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) PON AIM project (id: AIM1875400-1, CUP: B74I18000210006). Publisher Copyright: © 2021. All Rights Reserved. This paper introduces a design framework for mixed reality urban exploration (MRUE), based on a concrete implementation in a historical city. The framework integrates different modalities, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and haptics-audio interfaces, as well as advanced features such as personalized recommendations, social exploration, and itinerary manage…