PEACH - Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stock, Oliviero (Editor), Zancanaro, Massimo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Cognitive Technologies,
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Cultural heritage.; Library science.; Multimedia information systems.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Cultural and Media Studies.; Cultural Heritage.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Library Science.

Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage, PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary development project that explores the use of novel technologies for physical museum visits. Led by teams from ITC-irst, Trento and DFKI, Saarbrücken, the research is at the forefront of work on intelligent user i...

Table of Contents:

• Intelligent Mobile Guides
• Adaptive Multimedia Guide
• Cinematographic Techniques for Automatic Documentary-like Presentations
• Detecting Focus of Attention
• Report Generation for Postvisit Summaries in Museum Environments
• Infrastructure and User Modelling
• Delivering Services in Active Museums via Group Communication
• User Modelling and Adaptation for a Museum Visitors’ Guide
• Stationary Devices
• Integration of Mobile and Stationary Presentation Devices
• Children in the Museum: an Environment for Collaborative Storytelling
• Virtual Reconstructions and Simulations
• Photorealistic 3D Modelling Applied to Cultural Heritage
• Tracking Visitors in a Museum
• Evaluation and Usability
• Evaluation of Cinematic Techniques in a Mobile Multimedia Museum Guide Interface
• Innovative Approaches for Evaluating Adaptive Mobile Museum Guides
• Future Research
• Intelligent Interfaces for Groups in a Museum.