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Group navigation with handheld mobile museum guides

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

Group navigation with handheld mobile museum guides

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mobile museum guides
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navigation systems
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projector
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groups
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Falk types
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mobile guides
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location based services
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Many museums today use handheld devices (mobile guides) in order to aid in the enhancing of the museum experience. A possible use for mobile guides in the museum context is for navigation among the exhibits (e.g.

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Demonstration - show your project