Peach - Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits

by Stock, Oliviero; Zancanaro, Massimo

• ISBN13: 9783540687542
• ISBN10: 3540687548
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-03
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

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 interfaces, but also covers other areas of artificial intelligence, microsystems and human-computer interaction. This book is structured into 13 chapters, including reports on mobile guides, infrastructure and user modeling, the use of stationary devices, collaborative storytelling, 3D modelling, evaluation and usability, and future perspectives. The book editors and authors are leading experts on the underlying AI technologies and their application, and no other book has comparable technical insight and breadth. It represents a coherent survey of the relevant technologies and environment, and will be of benefit to AI researchers engaged with interface design, and practitioners in the area of cultural heritage support and marketing.

Table of Contents

Intelligent Mobile Guides
Adaptive Multimedia Guide	p. 3
Introduction and Motivation	p. 3
State of the Art	p. 5
History of the System	p. 7
Authoring Guidelines	p. 18
Conclusion	p. 21
Acknowledgments	p. 22
Cinematographic Techniques for Automatic Documentary-like Presentations	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Cinematography for Video Documentaries	p. 26
Cinematographic Templates	p. 27
Fully Automatic Documentary Generation	p. 30
Generating Text for Documentary Descriptions	p. 33
Automatic Cinematography	p. 37
Conclusions	p. 43
Detecting Focus of Attention	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Mediated Pointing	p. 46
Natural Pointing	p. 61
Conclusions	p. 70
Report Generation for Postvisit Summaries in Museum Environments	p. 71
The Museum Mission	p. 71
Resources Needed for Producing Report Summaries	p. 75
Producing the Text of the Report	p. 78
Personalization	p. 86
Implementation Methodology	p. 89
Infrastructure and User Modelling
Delivering Services in Active Museums via Group Communication	p. 95
Motivations	p. 95
Group Communication in Multiagent Systems	p. 97
Channelled Multicast and LoudVoice	p. 99
Modelling Group Communication	p. 100
Implicit Organizations	p. 102
Designing and Developing Implicit Organizations	p. 109
Conclusions	p. 120
User Modelling and Adaptation for a Museum Visitors' Guide	p. 121
Introduction	p. 121
User Modelling and Adaptation in Museum Visitors' Guides	p. 122
PEACH Challenges	p. 124
PEACH User Models and Adaptation	p. 127
Discussion and Future Work	p. 142
Summary	p. 144
Stationary Devices
Integration of Mobile and Stationary Presentation Devices	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
Related Work	p. 148
Migrating Virtual Museum Guides	p. 149
Using Virtual Characters to Present Adapted Information in Museum Settings	p. 153
Information Presentation for Mobile and Stationary Devices	p. 162
Summary and Outlook	p. 163
Children in the Museum: an Environment for Collaborative Storytelling	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
Story Table Design and Implementation	p. 167
Pilot Studies	p. 171
The Experimental Study	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 183
Acknowledgments	p. 184
Virtual Reconstructions and Simulations
Photorealistic 3D Modelling Applied to Cultural Heritage	p. 187
Introduction	p. 187
Image Based Modelling	p. 188
Results Achieved	p. 196
Laser Scanning	p. 200
Tracking Visitors in a Museum	p. 205
Introduction	p. 205
System Architecture Overview	p. 206
Simulated Environments and Visitors	p. 208
Distributed Computing	p. 213
Probabilistic Tracking	p. 215
Conclusions	p. 225
Evaluation and Usability
Evaluation of Cinematic Techniques in a Mobile Multimedia Museum Guide Interface	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
The Prototype	p. 230
Cinematic Presentations	p. 232
The User Study	p. 235
Conclusion	p. 244
Innovative Approaches for Evaluating Adaptive Mobile Museum Guides	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
Dimensions of Adaptivity for Mobile Guides	p. 248
Acceptance of Adaptive Systems-An Attitudinal Study	p. 249
Dimensions of Acceptance-Testing the Like-o-Meter	p. 257
Conclusions	p. 264
Future Research
Intelligent Interfaces for Groups in a Museum	p. 269
Introduction	p. 269
Technology for Groups in a Museum	p. 270
Group Modelling	p. 273
Conversations Within Groups	p. 278
Shared Devices for Group Presentations	p. 280
Mobile Guides 2.0	p. 283
Groups of Children	p. 286
Conclusions	p. 288
References	p. 289
Authors	p. 311
Index	p. 315
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