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Group navigation with handheld mobile museum guides

wecker — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:10:50 +0000

MW2011

Alan J. Wecker, Tsvika Kuflik, Haifa University, Israel; and Oliviero Stock, FBK-irst, Italy

http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/connections/pil/

Abstract

Many museums today use mobile guides to aid in enhancing the museum visit experience. One of the uses for mobile guides is for navigation. While navigation for individuals visiting a museum has been studied extensively, the study of individuals and groups navigating in museums with mobile guides is in its nascent stages. We propose a study using a set of tours tailored to visitor types following Falk's (2009) definition with degrees of freedom. We provide navigation aids based both on maps and direction giving. In order to involve a group in the decision making process of navigation we use a mobile device with a small projector.

Keywords: Museum mobile guide, Navigation, small groups, Mobile Projectors, location based services

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Group navigation with handheld mobile museum guides

Pimp My Site Architecture: Reorganization and Usability Tools and Tactics to Reinvigorate Museum Web Sites on a Budget

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:54 +0000

Masri, L., & Grossman E. (2010). Pimp My Site Architecture: Reorganization and Usability Tools and Tactics to Reinvigorate Museum Web Sites on a Budget. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Explorer - Mobile Navigation and Interpretation at the American Museum of Natural History

lperrylube — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:51:59 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Explorer - Mobile Navigation and Interpretation at the American Museum of Natural History

Keywords:

wayfinding

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explorer

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navigation

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application

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iphone

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iTouch

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mobile phones

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collection

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downloadable

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digital mobile museum tour

Keywords:

location awareness

Abstract:

This paper advocates a visitor-centric approach to designing a solution for navigation and interpretation. The American Museum of Natural History iPhone application Explorer combines state of the art location awareness, interpretation, and social networking to deliver an enhanced visitor experience both onsite and online. AMNH had three objectives with this project: to facilitate visitor navigation, to provide an application that appeals to visitors and encourages repeat visits, and to enhance exhibit information without detracting from the exhibits themselves. This paper examines the reasoning behind utilizing a mobile device for wayfinding; the choice of the iPhone platform; the challenge of bringing “GPS indoors” and the resultant technical solution; feature set determination and usability; the role of mobile devices in the pre- and post-Museum visit continuum; the challenges of curated mobile content creation; deploying the application on Museum-supplied devices and through the iTunes store; and marketing of the device and app. We will present the challenges faced by AMNH in executing a cross-Museum enterprise and share lessons learned, in order to offer the wider museum community an opportunity to build on our experience and expertise.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Mobile Parade

Site:

http://www.amnh.org/apps/explorer.php

Authors:

Linda Perry-Lube

Melissa Lefkowitz

A hypertext for an interactive visit to a science and technology museum

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:06:28 +0000

Fresta, G., & Signore O. (1993). A hypertext for an interactive visit to a science and technology museum. (Lees, Diane, Ed.).Museums and Interactive Multimedia: Selected papers from the second International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums.