Museums and the Web

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EPICS: an e-learning platform for digital cultural heritage

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heritage education
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narratives
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mobile guides
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story creation
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interactive stories
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e-learning platform
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We present a new type of e-learning platform for digital cultural heritage in Flanders, focusing on user-driven and meaningful digitization of cultural heritage information. This approach was developed within the EPICS project, which ran for two years and came to an end in the fall of 2011.

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Demonstration - show your project
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Group navigation with handheld mobile museum guides

Keywords: 
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
Abstract: 

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.

Type: 
Demonstration - show your project