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Computational support to record and re-experience visits

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Information technology research has mainly focussed on supporting visitors with guides, whilst a lot of opportunities for the development of technology for collecting, manipulating and re-travelling through material from the visits remain unexplored. On the basis of observations from a specific setting, we have developed prototype technology to combine multimedia content with position information. In particular, we developed mobile support to record and organise multimedia using the walked path in order to preserve more of the experience of the visit. We created tools to edit and store multimedia paths. Additional components make it possible to configure a mixed-media environment to navigate a multimedia path, using such physical interfaces as gesturing, and link the recorded media to other artefacts. When discussing field observations of current practices and prototype trials, we investigate what kind of functionality is needed to support the whole activity of collecting, manipulating and playing multimedia content in combination with position information.

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We are grateful to our co-researchers in the Atelier project, which is funded by the EU IST Disappearing Computer programme. We wish to acknowledge the contributions of Kari Kuutti, Anti Juustila and Virtu Halttunen (University of Oulu), Infotech Oulu for supporting this research at the University of Oulu, and Rüdiger Lainer, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Dieter Spath and the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

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  1. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland

    Giulio Iacucci & Pekka Pehkonen

  2. VTT Electronics, Kaitoväylä 1, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Juha Kela

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Iacucci, G., Kela, J. & Pehkonen, P. Computational support to record and re-experience visits. Pers Ubiquit Comput 8, 100–109 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-004-0261-3

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