Visiting A Museum - Augmented Experience
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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.
William Slawski has pointed out to me a reference in CiteSeer that applies to the same field. CiteSeer is a Science Papers Publications Research Index hosted by Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology. It often will produce similar results to those found by Google Scholar. The reference he found is A Study of an Augmented Museum Experience (2001). The Abstract runs as follows:
This paper describes the design of a study of visitors to a science museum who are equipped with wirelessly connected handheld devices. The museum exhibits are augmented with information and services in the form of web pages, and the users can access those pages conveniently when in the proximity of the exhibits as well as from their desktops outside the museum. The goal of the study is to examine use of technologies for `bridging the physical and virtual worlds’.
That sounds like a good example of the Ubiquitous Web in action. Some of the related references below develop the applications from a user point of view. One particularly interesting example applies the same thinking to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (PDF).
They all seem to be following the adaptation approach promoted by the Mobile Web Initiative. If only AGIs had come along earlier, they might have all been following a Multi-Web Practice and might well have had less of a challenge.
References:
Content in a Museum Setting
Electronic Guidebooks and Visitor Attention (2001)
Experimental Platform for Mobile Information Systems (2005)
Tags: Mobile, ubiquitous web
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