Re-creating Edinburgh: adopting the tourist gaze.

Burrows, Luke; Turner, Susan; Turner, Phil

Abstract

Motivation – The work described in this paper investigated the potential of a low fidelity desktop application using the metaphor of the ‘tourist gaze’ in conveying a sense of place.
Research approach – An exploratory study was used, in which an application was developed and evaluated by 25 participants.
Findings/Design – The results suggest that the simple, non-immersive representation of Edinburgh through augmented images and sound supported a reasonable degree of sense of place.
Research limitations/Implications – This was a small scale study and trials against other environments are required.
Originality/Value – Relatively economical applications of this type could be of value in resource-constrained contexts such as therapeutic arenas.
Take away message – Low fidelity virtual reality applications may be surprisingly effective if expectations are constrained.

Citation

Burrows, L., Turner, S., & Turner, P. (2010). Re-creating Edinburgh: adopting the tourist gaze. In M. Neerincx, & W. Brinkman (Eds.), Proceedings of ECCE 2010

• Conference Name: ECCE10, The 10th European conference on cognitive ergonomics
• Start Date: Aug 24, 2010
• End Date: Aug 24, 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Deposit Date: Aug 30, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Proceedings of ECCE 2010
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3833