C. Stephanidis (Ed.): Posters, Part II, HCII 2013, CCIS 374, pp. 282–286, 2013. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 An Augmented Tourist Guide of a World Heritage City Eulalia Rodríguez Fino 1 , Jorge Martín-Gutiérrez 1 , David C. Pérez López 4 , M. Dolores Meneses Fernández 2 , Vicente M. Zapata Hernández 3 , and Felipe Monzón Penate 1 1 Dept. Expresión Gráfica en Arquitectura e Ingeniería, 2 Dept. Ciencias de la Información, 3 Dept. de Geografía Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Angel Guimerá Jorge s/n, 38202 La Laguna, Spain 4 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain {erfino,vzpata,fmonzon}@ull.es, {jmargu,dmeneses}@ull.edu.es, dapelo@i3bh.es Abstract. In this paper, we introduce the design and implementation of a tourist guide, using augmented reality technology, for visiting two of the most important routes in a World Heritage city. To produce this application, we used the augmented reality library, HumanAR, developed by our research group and created with the aim of integrating the applications we have developed. The application guides the user on a route across the town with a video of 3D anima- tions of historic buildings along the way. The most symbolic buildings of the city are pictured and modelled on a walking tour across the historic site, designed to develop an interest in cultural tourism, keeping in mind the impact that this tourism may have on World Heritage cities. Keywords: Augmented reality, world heritage, tourist guide. 1 Introduction Augmented reality applications allow the introduction of additional information to our real view of the world, making it possible to superimpose virtual objects over real images captured by a camera. It’s a technology that improves the experience of communication as well as that of human computer interaction. The AR environments have the following characteristics: they combine real and virtual environments; they are interactive in real-time; they are registered in four dimensions (three dimensional space and time), where virtual objects can be stationary or animated; there is interactivity between the object and the real world and abstract concepts can be made visible, in order to enhance the user’s understanding. These characteristics seem appropriate for producing a tourist route guide of the historic town of San Cristobal de La Laguna. In this paper, we justify the need for using such technological actions in the culture and tourism field and describe the completed application.