Culture & heritage / CHI Extended Abstracts · 2025

ARTimeTravel

Explore a heritage site across time.

Project-provided AR reconstruction visualization at the Twin Pagodas site.
Project-provided AR reconstruction visualization at the Twin Pagodas site.

The research question

How can people explore the changing spaces of a heritage site over time?

What we explored

ARTimeTravel explores this question through web-based augmented reality serious games. It extends the lab’s work on place-based heritage experiences.

Why this work matters

A further direction for presenting heritage beyond a single moment in time.

Project team

Yiping Dong

Yiping Dong

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