Ubiquitous Web - Visiting A Museum
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The Ubiquitous Web was introduced with the following words in the previous post. As the Web reaches further into our lives, we will consider the increasing ubiquity of connectivity, what it means for real world objects to connect with the Web, and the increasing blurring of the lines between virtual worlds and our own.
A simple example will illustrate the power of this approach and show how using AGIs as bookmarks or favorites can help with that connectivity. Suppose a museum has a new exhibition for which it develops a website for its visitors. Each gallery and each major work in any gallery could have its own web page suitable for a Desktop PC, giving a complete account of the displayed item or group of displayed items.
The museum could also develop ‘parallel’ websites of corresponding web pages suitable for mobile devices for all galleries and major works. There could be versions designed for PDAs, for smart phones and for cell phones. These ‘parallel’ websites would give a streamlined account of the exhibits with whatever content each mobile device can handle. Every detailed Desktop PC web page would have its corresponding summary mobile device web pages.
Every one of these individual web pages would have its own URI. For example, the URI for a particular gallery for PDAs would be denoted by UPDA. The set of URIs for all the different device web pages for a given gallery would then be defined in an AGI or ordered set of the URIs. Every one of the individual web pages would contain the AGI information for the web page set it belonged to, as shown below:
(UDesktop, UPDA, Usmartphone, Ucellphone)
Before The Visit
Someone exploring the museum online before visiting the physical museum could select the particular web pages for the items of particular interest. They would then develop a visit list of the AGIs for these favorite items or galleries. The museum web site would allow them to register and hold this list of favorite AGIs or bookmarks in their own personal registered account on the museum’s website.
During The Visit
When visitors arrived at the museum, they could use their own mobile devices (PDA, smart phone or cell phone) or perhaps rent one from the museum. They could then first visit the museum website and access their registered account to bring up their previously selected list of favorite AGIs. Since they would now be using a mobile device, all web pages seen would be those appropriate to that particular mobile device. They could then select from this visit list, the particular favorite or favorites they wanted to check first. The corresponding mobile web pages would provide a type of executive summary about the item or gallery of interest they had already reviewed at home on their desktop computers.
If all galleries in the Museum were equipped with WiFi, then the visitor while wandering around might see other items of interest and could check the corresponding mobile web pages. The most interesting would have their AGIs added to the list of favorites. Equally if some item turned out not to be of particular interest, the corresponding AGI could be removed from the favorite list.
After The Visit
On returning home, the visitor could use the updated AGI favorite list to do an online replay of the visit to the physical museum. He or she could revisit the favorite items and galleries checking the more complete information available on the desktop web pages for the museum.
Once the ideal tour had been developed, this modified list of favorite AGIs could be sent to a friend by email. With this type of AGI favorite list, the sender could be assured that every favorite will give a satisfying user experience, whether viewed on a desktop PC, a PDA, a smart phone or a cell phone. Now that’s ubiquity.
Related: Visiting A Museum - Augmented Experience
AGIs are the subject of a pending patent.
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December 2nd, 2006 at 9:43 am
[...] There’s an interesting extension of the example used in a previous post, Ubiquitous Web - Visiting A Museum. The example was created to illustrate the use of AGIs to ease the interconnection of different web contents as per the Ubiquitous Web. It was a pure invented illustration of the power of AGIs and had no connection with other related works. [...]