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In this study, we proposed an augmented reality- (AR-) based mobile touring system for an authentic learning activity, which enables students to observe and learn key information regarding cultural heritage sites. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system, we conducted an experiment in a cultural heritage course at a Taiwanese university. A total of 72 students were divided into two groups and randomly assigned to an experimental group who learned with the AR-based mobile touring system and a control group who learned with a conventional mobile touring system. The experimental results show that the AR-based mobile touring system significantly improved the students’ memorising dimension of learning achievement, as compared with a conventional mobile touring system. Moreover, the positive impact of the proposed system on students’ actualised interest and task-based interest factors provide a particularly encouraging result for outdoor experiences. These experimental results also suggest the potential of AR technology to increase students’ learning interest and improve their learning achievements in outdoor settings. Therefore, we suggest that, when applying an AR-based mobile touring system in authentic learning activities, AR virtual objects should be designed appropriately, in order that the content recall performance and learning interest are enhanced. Implications for practice or policy: Teachers may need to consider using an AR-based mobile touring system for outdoor learning activities. First-year student learning achievements and interest can be improved by an AR-based mobile touring system. First-year student learning performance and interest can be improved by AR technology. The usefulness of AR technology can be proved through a comparison of experimental designs.

Many scholars and exhibition halls in recent years have become engaged in the research and development of augmented reality and virtual reality navigation systems. However, most of these navigation systems are still based on handheld mobile devices. Thus, users are likely to experience intermittent visits owing to repeated viewing of the exhibits, the navigation information on the mobile devices, and limited display and interactive functions. Therefore, this study used the Microsoft HoloLens device to implement a head-mounted museum navigation system by integrating such technologies as mixed reality, gesture recognition, and location awareness. This system presents diversified and highly interactive 3D and multimedia navigation information and supports indoor and outdoor location awareness functions to help visitors understand exhibits and exhibition venues, thus further enhancing the display and interaction functions of the mobile navigation system and increasing the pleasure of visiting.

Although Augmented Reality (AR) technology has already been adopted into mobile learning environments, additional effort must be put towards providing strong evidence that AR-based mobile s...

Over the past few years, with the prevalence of smart mobile devices, several well-known museums and researchers have developed mobile navigation systems to improve the navigation effect for museum visitors. However, most of these systems lack efficient content recommendation, indoor positioning, and augmented reality (AR) display functions, and this situation causes difficulty for visitors to have a personalized and efficient navigation experience. This paper presents an augmented reality mobile navigation system that supports indoor positioning and content recommendation services, which aims to provide personalized suggestions corresponding to the user’s context through the analysis of the interest and location information of visitors. Moreover, combined with the developed markerless augmented reality display functions, this system could effectively enrich and improve visitor’s navigation experience.

Starting with situational interest, this study explores how students can generate temporary situational interest in the current teaching situation, which may then affect their learning effectiveness, interest changes and learning behavior. As one of the elements for improvement of situational interest is to stimulate sensory perception of the environment, this study proposes a multimedia learning system based on augmented reality technology, observes and evaluates whether application of this system in guide can improve students' situational interest and the effectiveness of improvement in learning motivation and efficiency. In this study, 31 college students were arranged to use the system for guide in six historical sites such as Oxford College in Taiwan. The experimental results showed that the system presented excellent performance in terms of learning effectiveness and enhancing situational interest.

In recent years, most mobile navigation systems adopt augmented reality (AR) to provide location-aware and interactive multimedia contents for visitors’ reference. Most AR navigation systems support only one target recognition and then only acquire corresponding contents from data servers for reducing storage and network costs. With the increase of multimedia navigation information, the performance of data acquisition for resource-constrained mobile devices must be improved for better user experience. In this paper, we propose not only the multi-target AR recognition mechanism but also the polygon approximation based data acquisition to improve performance of mobile AR navigation system by accelerating spatial data acquisition. In the proposed approach, the query efficiency and search precision can be well controlled according to the requirements of different applications.

This study proposes a mobile augmented-reality teaching system focused on historic buildings that enables users to build a deeper understanding of the building structure, features, historical references and era influence while simultaneously exploring the historic site through the interaction effect that combines the virtual and the real. This increases overall interest in architecture and history. In this study, five students will operate the AR system to study how Mackay Culture influenced Tamsui and a satisfaction survey with both the questionnaire survey and an interview will be utilized to determine if participants are receptive to our proposed system and provide feedback on how to make subsequent improvements on our model.

In recent years, more and more internationally famous exhibition sites and scholars have actively engaged in research of mobile navigation system with the function of augmented reality (AR) display. However, most systems can be operated only when a special marker or image is shot at a close distance, and only one target can be recognized and displayed at a time, the function is limited. In particular, such systems cannot work effectively when there are many visitors. In this paper, we presented a mobile navigation system that supports multiple targets markerless AR display function. Based on the k-means clustering algorithm, this system applies markerless image target with high recognition rating as the main basis to complete targets clustering, in order to simultaneously recognize multiple images from long distances, and successfully display corresponding 3D and multimedia navigation information, which can effectively improve the efficiency and practicality of AR mobile navigation system.

“Oxford College,” well-known as “the earliest edification institution in northern Taiwan,” was planned by Rev. George Leslie Mackay. It is a typical Chinese and Western style architecture with rich historical and cultural content, now is a Class 2 national monument. This paper took “Oxford College” as an example to develop a 3D augmented reality mobile navigation system that supports the function of indoor positioning. This system collected the historical data to develop the 3D models according to the ratio of actual objectives, and constructed the 3D external and internal structures of Oxford College of the past and present. Moreover, this system combined RFID positioning function with the technology of markerless augmented reality to actively detect the location of visitors and to further instantaneously present 3D and multimedia navigation information on mobile devices.