The Protected Urban Planet App “PUP Sight Guide”: Amsterdam as Case Study

In this paper we present a prototype of a mobile guide called “PUP Sight Guide” that can help the visitors of the cultural heritage sites to discover them in a personalized way. PUP stands for Protected Urban Planet. As a case study we take Amsterdam, a World Heritage City, i.e. a city that includes urban areas designated as World Heritage (WH). We base our example scenario on (1) the knowledge gained within the CHIP project (Cultural Heritage Information Personalization/Presentation) and the CHIP software originally developed for the museum environment, and (2) on the data about the Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) gathered by master students of the department of Built Environment in Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.