2020/07/17 14:50:00 エリック・ハーキンソン准教授がUNWTOのデジタルイノベーションファイナリストに Prof. Hawkinson Selected as a Top Innovator in Digital Solutions
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デジタルツーリズムの研究開発プロジェクトに取り組む国際貢献学部グローバル観光学科エリック・ハーキンソン准教授が、UNWTO（世界観光機構）のHEALING SOLUTIONS FOR TOURISM CHALLENGEでアジアファイナリストに選出されました。
新型コロナウイルス感染症の影響で大きなダメージを受けた観光産業。この状況を打破するため、UNWTOは新たなソリューションと革新的なアイデアを募り、2020年3月にHEALING SOLUTIONS FOR TOURISM CHALLENGEをスタートしました。
ハーキンソン准教授はアジア地域から選ばれたファイナリストの1人で、将来に向けて観光業界のデジタルソリューションの第一人者として認められています。今回のプロジェクトは「ARientation」と呼ばれる学修拡張実現のための無料で使いやすい没入型学習のプラットフォームで、2015年にスタートしました。現在では、アジアをはじめとする世界中のコミュニティや大学、観光地で展開しています。
ハーキンソン准教授は「一般に拡張現実と仮想現実がこれまでにも増して個人情報収集の獲得に乗り出している現状があるなかで、このプロジェクトをプライバシーに配慮したデータ収集というアイデアを促進する方法として活用していきたい」とコメントしています。
【関連リンク】
・ARientation
The tourism industry has been devastated by the COVID-19 health crisis. There has been continued widespread economic impacts of the need for social distancing and the numbers of travelers both international and domestic are a small percentage of what they were just a year ago. To help recover from this situation new solutions and innovative ideas will be needed and utilized correctly. That is why the World Tourism Organization started the Healing Solutions for Tourism Challenge in March of 2020. The challenge consists of a global call to reach the most disruptive startups, entrepreneurs, innovators and existing technologies to mitigate Covid-19 impacts on tourism through health, economic and destination recovery solutions. It is intended to be a step forward for Sustainable Development in a crisis situation, providing support to travelers, businesses and authorities.
Associate Professor Eric Hawkinson of the Department of Global Tourism was one of the 5 finalists selected from the Asia Region and has been recognized as a top innovator in digital solutions for the tourism industry moving to the future. His project, called ARientation, is an augmented reality platform for learning and engagement. ARientation is an immersive learning platform that is free, easy to use, and doesn't look to take all your data. It's designed to be a simple, fast and easy way to create augmented environments for teaching and learning. Eric started the project in 2015 as a part of his continued research and development in immersive learning environments. Since then the project has been deployed in various community projects, universities, K12 schools, and tourism destinations around Asia and the world. Eric hopes to use the project as a way to promote ideas of data collection and privacy as augmented and virtual reality get even more aggressive in collecting personal information.
【Link】
・ARentation
新型コロナウイルス感染症の影響で大きなダメージを受けた観光産業。この状況を打破するため、UNWTOは新たなソリューションと革新的なアイデアを募り、2020年3月にHEALING SOLUTIONS FOR TOURISM CHALLENGEをスタートしました。
ハーキンソン准教授はアジア地域から選ばれたファイナリストの1人で、将来に向けて観光業界のデジタルソリューションの第一人者として認められています。今回のプロジェクトは「ARientation」と呼ばれる学修拡張実現のための無料で使いやすい没入型学習のプラットフォームで、2015年にスタートしました。現在では、アジアをはじめとする世界中のコミュニティや大学、観光地で展開しています。
ハーキンソン准教授は「一般に拡張現実と仮想現実がこれまでにも増して個人情報収集の獲得に乗り出している現状があるなかで、このプロジェクトをプライバシーに配慮したデータ収集というアイデアを促進する方法として活用していきたい」とコメントしています。
【関連リンク】
・ARientation
The tourism industry has been devastated by the COVID-19 health crisis. There has been continued widespread economic impacts of the need for social distancing and the numbers of travelers both international and domestic are a small percentage of what they were just a year ago. To help recover from this situation new solutions and innovative ideas will be needed and utilized correctly. That is why the World Tourism Organization started the Healing Solutions for Tourism Challenge in March of 2020. The challenge consists of a global call to reach the most disruptive startups, entrepreneurs, innovators and existing technologies to mitigate Covid-19 impacts on tourism through health, economic and destination recovery solutions. It is intended to be a step forward for Sustainable Development in a crisis situation, providing support to travelers, businesses and authorities.
Associate Professor Eric Hawkinson of the Department of Global Tourism was one of the 5 finalists selected from the Asia Region and has been recognized as a top innovator in digital solutions for the tourism industry moving to the future. His project, called ARientation, is an augmented reality platform for learning and engagement. ARientation is an immersive learning platform that is free, easy to use, and doesn't look to take all your data. It's designed to be a simple, fast and easy way to create augmented environments for teaching and learning. Eric started the project in 2015 as a part of his continued research and development in immersive learning environments. Since then the project has been deployed in various community projects, universities, K12 schools, and tourism destinations around Asia and the world. Eric hopes to use the project as a way to promote ideas of data collection and privacy as augmented and virtual reality get even more aggressive in collecting personal information.
【Link】
・ARentation
