The Development of the Augmented Reality Application for Promoting Sa Kamphaeng Yai Temple Tourism in Sisaket

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to design and develop the augmented reality application for Wat Sa Kamphaeng Yai tourism support in Sisaket province, 2) to evaluate learning of the augmented reality application using normalized gain method and 3) to assess the users' satisfaction with the developed augmented reality application. There were five steps in research methodology based on ‘system development life cycle’ (SDLC). Tools used for developing this application consisted of Autodesk Maya program, Street View Download 360 program, Vuforia program, Adobe Audition CC program and Lean touch plugin.

The results showed that there were 8 models in 3D: Prasat Wat Sa Kamphaeng Yai, Component of Prasat, Lintel of Prasat Wat Sa Kamphaeng Yai, Silver Cave, Golden Cave, Big Gong, Folk song and Buddha image in the posture of Naga Prok. It was also found that the learning evaluation using normalized gain was in medium gain level (<g>=0.44). As for the satisfaction evaluation, the average experts’ satisfaction was in the ‘strongly agree’ level (=4.64) with standard deviations (S.D.) at 0.52. The average users’ satisfaction was in the ‘agree’ level (=4.33) with standard deviations (S.D.) at 0.67. Based on the results of this research, a prototype of an augmented reality application for temple tourism support can be applied to promoting tourism in archaeological sites.