The EnterCY project is based on an integrated virtual and augmented reality platform utilizing cutting-edge Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for promoting Cyprus as an attractive destination by:
- Informing and educating potential visitors about the rich cultural heritage, variety of activities and wealth of sightseeing locations of Cyprus through a spatio-temporal virtual (VR) exploration before their visit.
- Enhancing tourists experience and satisfaction by providing visual and audio guidance, navigation, as well as entertaining and learning by storytelling through augmented reality (AR) with location-awareness during their visit in both indoor and outdoor sites.
- Offering an after-visit experience through immersive reality (IR) technologies, by providing tourists with a personal 360° video of their on-site tour after their visit as a memento.
- Allowing tourists to share their experience in real-time through the platform integration with social media.
In all stages of the EnterCY platform, personalization will be employed for presenting the tourists with information and suggestions tailored to their personal interests and needs.
URL: https://platform.entercyprus.com/
Contact: [email protected]
The user-friendly web-based Content Management System (CMS) allows both the technical and non-technical users to store and manage their data. The design and implementation of the CMS provide an interface for managing the data of the following components:
- Attractions, Activities and Tourist-services
- 3D-Data
- Personalization component
- Indoor Positioning Service (IPS)
- Storytelling
The platform’s back-end is implemented using the Laravel PHP web framework and follows the Model–View–Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, using MariaDB as a database server (which is based on the open-source MySQL code). The Laravel-based application provides the platform’s authentication service.
In case you have any publications resulting from the EnterCY platform, please cite the following paper:
- "EnterCY: A Virtual and Augmented Reality Tourism Platform for Cyprus", Soteris Constantinou, Andreas Pamboris, Rafael Alexandrou, Christophoros Kronis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Harris Papadopoulos, and Andreas Konstantinidis, The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'22), IEEE Press, pp. 314-317, June 6 - June 9, 2022, Paphos, Cyprus, DOI: 10.1109/MDM55031.2022.00069, 2022. Download: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/papers/mdm22-entercy-demo.pdf
Additional Publications:
- "ASTRO: Reducing COVID-19 Exposure through Contact Prediction and Avoidance", Chrysovalantis Anastasiou, Constantinos Costa, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Cyrus Shahabi, and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS '22), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/3490492, 2022. Download: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/papers/tsas22-astro.pdf
- "Indoor Quality-of-Position Visual Assessment using Crowdsourced Fingerprint Maps", Christos Laoudias, Artyom Nikitin, Panagiotis Karras, Moustafa Youssef, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS '21), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/3433026, 2021. Download: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/papers/tsas21-accesplus.pdf
- "Serendipity-Based Points-of-Interest Navigation", Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Mohamed Sharaf, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT '20), Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 20, Iss. 4, New York, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/3391197, 2020. Download: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/papers/toit20-epui.pdf
- "The Anyplace 4.0 IoT Localization Architecture", Paschalis Mpeis, Thierry Roussel, Manish Kumar, Constantinos Costa, Christos Laoudias, Denis Capot-Ray Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM '20), IEEE Computer Society, ISBN:, pp. 8, June 30 - July 3, 2020, Versailles, France, 2020. Download: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/papers/mdm20-a4iot.pdf
We hope that you find our EnterCY platform useful for your research and innovation activities.
Enjoy EnterCY!
The EnterCY Team
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Short description of the contents included in this release.
The Source code for the IMCF Laravel PHP web framework following the model–view–controller architectural pattern. Lead Developer: Soteris Constantinou.
Backend Software Leader:
Soteris Constantinou Data Management Systems Laboratory (DMSL) Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus Soteris Constantinou [email protected]