Mobile applications in cultural heritage context: a survey

Manuel Silva; Diogo Morais; Miguel Mazeda; Luis Teixeira

doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-3669-8.ch009

Mobile applications in cultural heritage context: a survey

Manuel Silva, Diogo Morais, Miguel Mazeda, Luis Teixeira

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Abstract

As mobile technology sustains exponential growth and spread to all aspects of our everyday life and smartphone computational power increases, new promises arise for cultural institutions and citizens to use these tools for promoting cultural heritage. This survey proposes to review available smartphone applications (apps) relating to cultural heritage in three different contexts: cities, street art, and museums. Apps were identified by searching two app stores: Apple's App Store and Google Play (Android). A data search was undertaken using keywords and phrases relating to cities, street art, and museums. A total of 101 apps were identified (Google Play only= 7, Apple App Store only = 26, both Google Play and Apple App Store = 61, Apple Web Store and Web App = 6). Apps were categorized into the following categories: museums (39), street art (30), and cities (32). The most popular features are photos (96%) and maps (79%), and the most uncommon the 360 (4% ? only in museums apps), games (6%), and video (15%).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multidisciplinary perspectives on new media art
Editors	Celia Soares, Emília Simão
Publisher	IGI Global Publishing
Chapter	9
Pages	189-216
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781799836711
ISBN (Print)	9781799836698
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3669-8.ch009
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2020

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CITAR: Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts
Vieira, E., Nobre da Silva Pais, A. M., Filipe, C., Serra, S., Baltazar, A., Lobo, C., Carmona, C. R., Sá, C., Sousa, G. V. E., Pereira, H. M., Neves, J., Teixeira, J., Gomes, J. A., Carvalho, J. V., Castro, L., Teixeira, L., Aguiar, M., Crespo, N., Camarneiro, N., Costa, P. R., Pestana, P. D., Alves, P., Kunz, S., Neves, S., Coutinho, V. M., Galán-Pérez, A., Rangel, A., Natálio, C. E. R. M., Henriques, F., Afonso Lopes, M. I., Bordalo, R. & Lamounier, S.
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research

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