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Development of Zoo Guide Smartphone AR
Application for Foreign Tourists Visiting Japan 1Ibaraki
University, Hitachi, Ibaraki 3168511 Japan {tomoyuki.ishida.49,
15nm701x}@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp 2Fukuoka
Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan n-uchida@fit.ac.jp 3Iwate
Prefectural University, Takizawa, Iwate 0200693 Japan shibata@iwate-pu.ac.jp
Abstract Many foreign tourists visit in Japan every year. On the other hand, multilingualization of signs such as guide plates and road signs, etc. is an important issue. The reinforcement of multilingualization is essential to improve the degree of satisfaction of the foreign tourists. Therefore, we focused on correspondence to foreigner tourists in a zoo, and constructed the Zoo Guide Smartphone AR Application for foreign tourists visiting Japan. The Zoo Guide Smartphone AR Application consists of the Animal Contents Registration System and the Animal Contents Browsing System. The Animal Contents Registration System is the system to register Anglicized animal data in a zoo. And, the Animal Contents Browsing System is the system for the foreign tourists to browse Anglicized contents on the smartphone. In this research, in order to evaluate the necessity, the effectiveness, the operability, the functionality, the applicability and the readability of research, the questionnaire survey was carried out to foreigners. As questionnaire survey result, we were able to confirm the great evaluation in all the items. In the future, we will rope after utilization at other tourist facilities based on the questionnaire survey results. Keywords: Tourism-Oriented Country, Foreign
Tourists, Tourist Application, Augmented Reality +: Corresponding author: Tomoyuki
Ishida Hitachi, Ibaraki, 3168511, Japan, Tel:
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