SmartMuseum
WSA-mobile Winner in the category m-Tourism & Culture, 2010
m-Tourism & Culture
2010
Producer:
SmartMuseum EU Project With SmartMuseum, visitors of museums and special sites can register via their mobile devices and receive a full-featured audio-visual guided tour of the site on-the-go.
The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services, enhancing on-site personalised access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling.
Using on-site knowledge databases, global digital libraries and visitors’ experiential knowledge, SmartMuseum makes possible the creation of innovative multilingual services for increasing interaction between visitors and cultural heritage objects in a future-oriented smart museum environment which takes full advantage of digitized cultural information.
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Jury Evaluation:
The SmartMuseum platform is outstanding for its ability to help cultural institutions everywhere make their treasures more accessible to visitors.
Already implemented by the Museum of Valetta in Malta and a prominent Florentine museum, the application allows visitors to use their Smartphone or PDA in place of expensive audio tours on bespoken hardware. Users simply register their mobile device and receive a full-featured audio-video experience of the museum or site.
The benefits of the SmartMuseum application include the lowering the cost of on-site access to digital cultural heritage content and the improvement of the use of visitors’ time on-site by allowing them to find and focus on the objects of greatest interest to them.
SmartMuseumalso improves the individual and shared experiences people gain from cultural sites, making real use of personal experiences related to cultural heritage access for a variety of interest groups.
Following the example of SmartMuseum, museums around the world can now embrace mobile technology to enrich the visitor experience before, during and after any visit.
Mobile:
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