Guy Breden (Project Leader for digital platforms communicating with citizens, ICT, City of Luxembourg), 'Europeana for Smart Cities' Luxembourg Presidency, 14-15 October 2015, Luxembourg

1. Developing mobile applications
for the City of Luxembourg

2. • How to present cultural heritage with a mobile application
• Challenges and obstacles
• City of Luxembourg’s projects and further ideas
• Conclusions
Developing apps for the City of
Luxembourg
Subjects

3. How to present cultural heritage
with a mobile application

4. Requirements
• Presenting information about cultural heritage in a new and
modern way, different from websites
• Presenting the content in an interactive, intuitive and playful
way
• Presenting additional content that can be experienced by all
the senses
Use of new trends and technologies

5. Technologies
• GPS and compass
• Image recognition
– 2D for indoor
– 3D for outdoor
• Image overlapping
augmented reality

6. Challenges and obstacles

7. Challenges
• Fast and stable Internet connection: WIFI network of the City
of Luxembourg (HOTCITY)
• System to guide the users to the different spots
– by maps, signals and/or beacons
• Intuitive manipulation of the augmented reality

8. Example of augmented reality
Labels to identify
the right position
Scanning of the
object
Timebased
results

9. Obstacles
• Legal constraints such as intellectual property and data
privacy
• Capture of correct and professional data by different
departments of the City of Luxembourg

10. VdL projects and further ideas

11. Indoor project: Museum legends
New permanent exhibition in the Museum of History starts in 2016
Goal: combine new technologies with cultural heritage
Project: Creating a mobile application showing static and dynamic
information about artworks with the help of « augmented reality »
– Example of dynamic animation: Sukiennice Museum Krakow

12. Indoor project: Museum legends

13. Outdoor project: Historical films

14. Outdoor project: Historical buildings

15. Outdoor project: Pfaffenthal 1867 (3D animation)
An interactive 3D application in the virtual world of
Second Life
– will transport you to the year 1867
– you assume the identity of an historic figure in the
form of an “avatar” and discover the old streets of
Pfaffenthal
Same 3D-data in combination with augmented reality

16. Other outdoor projects with 3D animation
• Panoramic view of the skyline of the City of Luxembourg
during different periods
• View of the « Bock »-castle, outdoor and indoor
• Revival of the cannons in the « casemates »
• …

17. Conclusions

18. • Combination of new technologies with cultural heritage
– Revive the visit to a museum
– Adapt information dynamically
– Create a more engaging, adaptive and enjoyable visitor’s
experience
• Valorisation of the cultural heritage for all visitors
• Ready-to-use technology and easy integration
– Cost-effective technological basics
– Upgradeable, scalable
– Hardware is ready and available
• Challenges on the data-side

19. Thank you for your attention