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Seminar
The Museum as an Arena for Multidisciplinary Research:
The PIL Museum Visitors’Guide Project.
Speaker: Tsvi Kuflik.
Institute: University of Haifa, Israel.
Time/Place: 11:00 am, Monday, 29 Mar, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
All are welcome.
Abstract
In recent years there has been considerable research focusing on intelligent museum visitor's guides. The research mainly focused on supporting the individual visitor by providing personalized information in a context aware manner. This research mainly exploited the use of novel technological developments for better supporting individual museum visitors. This included: multimedia as a presentation tool, novel positioning technologies (such as infra red, RFID, WiFi, and more), presentation technologies/devices and more. However, people tend to visit museums in groups – organized tours, small groups of friends, families, etc. It seems that the time is right to move now towards supporting groups of visitors in the museum. In the framework of the “PIL” project (PEACH-Israel, Italian-Israeli collaboration), a museum visitors’ guide system is developed. As part of the research, a methodology for multimedia presentations preparation has been developed, the idea of ubiquitous user modeling was defined and one of its techniques was applied for bootstrapping an on-site user model for the visitor, and a system was designed to enhance interaction among museum visitors (and thus enhance learning) by providing inter-group context aware communication mechanisms. In addition to supporting individuals, the system supports the whole group by providing time-trigger based recommendations for exhibits and presentations as the visit time is exhausted.
The talk will present the research involved with the mobile museum visitor's guide developed within the PIL project and focus on the demonstration of the context aware interaction mechanism and on the demonstration of the group support as examples for context aware services in active museum.
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