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Universiteit Hasselt -‐ Exper1se Centrum voor Digitale Media Provinciaal Gallo-‐Romeins Museum – Provincie Limburg

iDiscover Toward the next genera1on of

Contextualised Mobile Museum Guides

Kris Luyten [email protected]

Universiteit Hasselt -‐ Exper1secentrum voor Digitale Media -‐ IBBT Provinciaal Gallo-‐Romeins Museum – Provincie Limburg

The 9th Conference on Culture and Computer Science, May 12 2011 Berlin

Background

EFRD project ARCHIE -‐  Project with Gallo-‐Roman Museum (in Tongeren) -‐  May 2005 – August 2008 -‐  Mobile ICT to enhance the visitor experience for youngsters

-‐  Technology should support social aspects of visit

ARCHIE : mobile ICT which …

-‐  S1mulates interac1on among people -‐  Engages the visitor in interac1on with the museum -‐  Tailors the presenta1on according to the visitor

Set of complex technologies

-‐  Indoor loca1on tracking -‐  Interconnected mobile devices -‐  Role-‐based collabora1ve game -‐  Personaliza1on -‐  Special soZware stack to allow for “no hassle” deployment of Flash designs

-‐  ….

How can we do something similar? How much does this cost? Would this be beneficial for our visitor?

Set of complex technologies Service-‐oriented architecture enhances reusability

Set of complex technologies

Service-oriented Framework

Ubisense


-‐ Wireless network -‐ Voice-‐over-‐IP -‐  Collabora1ve games


Arbitrary protocols -‐ RFID tags or QR codes -‐ IR beacons -‐ Bluetooth -‐ …


What composi1on and configura1on of services is required for a par1cular museum

(context of use)?


EFRD project Ritchie (2008-2012)

To consult,

to guide,

and to experience

To consult,

Digital Interac1ve CH Solu1ons


To consult,

to guide,

and to experience

To consult,

Digital Interac1ve CH Solu1ons

Thanks to the European Fund for Regional Development for their support! and the Flemish government and the Limburg government and Hasselt University


Consult

Guide

Experience

iDiscover

Exper1se Centre for Digital

Interac1ve CH

iDiscover framework

iDiscover framework

Contextual model of learning by (Falk and Dierking, 2000)

iDiscover framework

Conceptual framework to situate the desired solu1on. How can we select the correct technologies so it is tailored for the visitor, the environment (site) and situa1on?

iDiscover framework

iDiscover selected cases

Archie Middelheim

KBIN Terf

iDiscover selected cases

Archie Middelheim

KBIN Terf

Together learning

Open up alterna1ve content

Wayfinding in complex building

Create your own game / story

Case: Archie

Case: Archie

Free roaming limited to separate rooms

Case: Archie

Content adapts according to loca1on & objects

Case: Archie

Youngsters 12-‐14y, school visit

Case: Archie

Together playing in groups of 2 or 3

Case: Archie – Facts Slide -‐  Completely deployed and opera1onal. Operated by museum staff.

-‐  One of the most advanced mobile guides that is currently in use in a real life situa1on (over one hour game, whole museum as a game arena, collabora1ve mobile game, personalisa1on, loca1on detec1on, VOIP, rich graphical designs, used with up to 120 simultaneous users,...).

-‐  Advanced yet very fragile techology. -‐  Deployment phase oZen neglected in R&D. Many things to learn for academia...

Case: Archie – Facts Slide

-‐  Pre-‐deployment evalua1ons with ~1000 test users.

-‐  Real life usage about 50 – 400 persons a week since november.

-‐  Experience it in the Gallo-‐Roman musem in Tongeren.

Case: Middelheim

Case: Middelheim

with Middelheimmuseum and Piazza Dell’Arte

-‐  Target: youngsters (14-‐26)

-‐  iPhone + GPS -‐  Open air museum for modern art

-‐  S1mulate visitors to explore the artwork + provide extra content

Case: Middelheim -‐  Light weight game element s1mulates explora1on -‐  Extra stuff for mobile app users (unlock “secret places”)

Case: Middelheim -‐  Light weight game element s1mulates explora1on -‐  Extra stuff for mobile app users (unlock “secret places”)

Art radar

Case: Middelheim

Feedback user tes1ng -‐  Previously hard-‐to-‐find artworks are more accessible now

-‐  Game element is fun -‐  Extra content is appreciated

-‐  Visitors love the incen1ve to explore

Case: KBIN

with Koninklijk Belgisch Ins1tuut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN)

Case: KBIN -‐  Way finding -‐  Digital content

-‐  Mul1ple languages

-‐  Free roaming -‐  Infrastructure is technology free

with Koninklijk Belgisch Ins1tuut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN)

Case: KBIN -‐  QR tags -‐  Photo-‐based UI “poor man AR”

-‐  Photo´s are annotated

(iDiscover) Manifesto the rules we should live by

-‐  Sharing experience

-‐  Using a common language

-‐  Purng solu1ons in their social, physical and personal context

As long as there is good value in the laser, we asribute more value to the former:

-‐  Reusing soZware components

-‐  A well-‐defined engineering approach

-‐  Feature completeness and richness

iDiscover: The Expertise Centre

-‐  Independent Exper1se Centre -‐  Consult, Guide and Experience [mobile] ICT solu1ons for Cultural Heritage.

-‐  Infrastructure and a collec1on of working examples to experience technologies yourself.

-‐  Visitor-‐, Site-‐ and Ins1tute-‐centered engineering of ICT solu1ons

iDiscover: The Expertise Centre

Experience technologies in demo-‐ and simula1on-‐lab -‐  Gallo-‐Roman museum -‐  Demo and simula1on-‐lab at EDM-‐UHasselt