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An overview of the use of panoramic photography, the panorama concept, and evolution of presentation and multimedia projects targeting tourism promotions The purpose is to stress the importance of panoramic pictures in the Portuguese design of the multimedia systems for the promotion of tourism. Through photography in the multimedia support on-line and off-line, the user can go back in time and watch what those landscapes were like in his/her childhood, for example. Consequently, one of the additional quality options in our productions is the diachronic view of the landscape.
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Gonçalves, N. (2007). How Panoramic Photography Changed Multimedia Presentations in Tourism. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73110-8_95
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