Santa Clara University · On-campus augmented reality tour

Thámien Ohlone
Augmented Reality Tour

Explore Ohlone pasts, presents, and futures through stories and augmented reality on the Santa Clara University campus.

Download OhloneAR
Where

Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, California

OhloneAR connects Indigenous narratives with campus places, including the effects of colonialism, cultural revitalization, and the present and future of Ohlone culture.

How to take the tour

CHI 2024 · Best Movie Award

Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour

See the tour in use and how it was co-designed with the Ohlone Native American community to share Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures on campus.

Film: “We Are Still Here” · 2 minutes 40 seconds

Experience the tour Award record
A film by the Ohlone tour project team.
Phone held up to the campus landscape, with an augmented reality village visible on its screen.
Visitors view the Ohlone village stop through a phone at Santa Clara University.
Five visitors stand among flowers at Santa Clara University, holding phones and discussing a tour stop.
Visitors explore a tour stop together on campus.
Two visitors hold tablets while viewing a tour stop; the foreground screen is labeled Basket Technology.
Exploring Basket Technology through the tour app.

Photo and film credits

How to take the tour

  1. Get the app

    Download OhloneAR from the Apple App Store on your iPhone.

    Download OhloneAR for iPhone

  2. Open it on campus

    Use the app’s navigation to find the experiences at Santa Clara University.

  3. View and listen

    At each location, follow the in-app instructions to explore the augmented reality and Indigenous storytelling.

Students, faculty, and community collaborators pose together at the Ohlone AR Tour launch.
Students, faculty, and community collaborators at the Ohlone AR Tour launch, 2024.SCU HCI Lab photo collection.

Community partners and contributors

In collaboration with Muwekma Ohlone Tribe culture bearers and language keepers, Native community contributors, and SCU faculty and students.

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe culture bearers and language keepers

Gloria E. Gomez, Monica V. Arellano, Isabella Amne Gomez, Georgiana “Gigi” Kormey Gomez, Lucas Arellano, and others.

Native community contributors

Mandy Macias, member of the Dunlap Band of Mono Indians and descendant of Mountain Maidu and Ohlone tribes; Mariah Aragon, member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and descendant of the Crow Tribe.

SCU students and faculty contributed to the tour’s design and development.

Full acknowledgments and project history

Film and resources