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Semantics Enhancing Augmented Reality and Making Our Reality Smarter

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 (OTM 2012)

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This paper describes how semantic and Linked Data technology are incorporated into an Augmented Reality (AR) platform in the SmartReality project and form the basis for enhanced AR mobile applications in which information and content in the user’s surroundings can be presented in a more meaningful and useful manner. We describe how things of interest are described semantically and linked into the Linked Open Data cloud. Relevant metadata about things is collected and processed in order to identify and retrieve related content and services. Finally, the user sees this information intuitively in their Smart Reality view of the reality around them. We highlight how the use of semantics and Linked Data enables an AR experience which is more relevant for a user and with respect to what they have around them, and which can be automated and adapted at lower cost to content and application providers.

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  1. STI International, USA

    Lyndon Nixon

  2. Graz University of Technology, Austria

    Jens Grubert & Gerhard Reitmayr

  3. seekda GmbH, Austria

    James Scicluna

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Semantic Technology and Application Research Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G-10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. Research Centre for Automatic Control, School of Engineering in Information Technology, Campus scientifique, University of Lorraine, CNRS, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

  5. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Germany

    Peter Dadam

  6. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  7. HP Labs, Bristol, UK

    Siani Pearson

  8. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Alois Ferscha

  9. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Sonia Bergamaschi

  10. ADVIS Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Isabel F. Cruz

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Nixon, L., Grubert, J., Reitmayr, G., Scicluna, J. (2012). Semantics Enhancing Augmented Reality and Making Our Reality Smarter. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7566. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33615-7_29

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