Digital Tourism
Digital Tourism is defined as the digital support of the tourist experience before, during and after their tourist activity. This might be a recommendation system to help someone find suitable accommodation in planning, a location based augmented reality interface for their golf game during their stay and the ability to easily explore their holiday media once at home. In SACHI we have a wide range of experience in both fundamental and applied research which can be brought to bear in this area. Ranging from low-level sensor technologies in the environment, through the collection, management, and processing of context data through to the middleware required to enable the dynamic composition of devices and services. In addition we have world-leading experience in mobile, augmented reality, desktop, embedded and ubiquitous human computer interaction research.
In due course this page will link to our new research and development project activities related to tourism. The visitor economy is worth £11.1 billion to Scotland. It accounts for 10.4% of Scottish GDP and employes 10% of our workforce. One of our aims in SACHI is develop effective knowledge transfer pathways from undergraduate, postgraduate, academic and project research into commercial activity.
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