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The fast development of interactive technologies has impacted the field of Cultural Heritage by enriching museums, sites and exhibitions. As for Cultural Heritage, Industrial Heritage can also benefit from new technologies in order to create interactive experiences and advance the understanding and dissemination of industrial evolution. The thermal power plant of Aramon at the South of France has stopped its electricity production and will be dismantled. This site is rich in industrial heritage and cultural significance. A 3D model of the site as well as virtual tours would make possible, on the one hand, to create resources for educational purposes in order to introduce the public to energy production sites and, on the other hand, to keep the memory of the region's Industrial Heritage.
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I would like to thank the staff of EDF and thermal plant, Nathalie Bruneau, Marilène Combes and Olivier Riviere, as well as Corine Negre from the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications, and all the students who participate in the development of the application.
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Rodriguez, N. (2021). Virtual Reality for Industrial Heritage: The Thermal Power Plant of Aramon. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78642-7_43
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