Desarrollo de una aplicación móvil para proporcionar información de lugares turísticos de la ciudad de Riobamba utilizando la tecnología de realidad aumentada.

Abstract

This work had the purpose of developing a mobile application for the promotion of the tourist sites corresponding to Riobamba canton. The places that were taken into account for their promotion in the development of the application are those that the Dirección de Turismo del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal (GADM) del canton Riobamba. The development of the mentioned application was managed using the SCRUM methodology. This methodology permits to integrate all the involved ones as members of the project allowing a better interaction among them, besides it allows to divide the project in iterations to generate small deliverables. The application was developed in the integrated development environment (IDE) Android Studio, which is the official IDE for developing applications for devices with Android operating system (OS); To store the information of places used SQLite as database management system (DBMS) for being light is one of the best options for mobile applications. After completing the application development, an analysis of the usability of the application was made taking into account there parameters: efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction, taking into account these three aspects, a questionnaire was developed with 15 questions, 5 questions per each for parameter. The survey was conducted to 118 people about the usability of the application, once processed the data using the chi-square test has been shown that the application meets the usability characteristics. And the technology of augmented reality used for the places of the city is much more attractive and interesting, but it should be taken into account that this functionality should only be used within the city of Riobamba.