mi-guide: a wireless context driven information system for museum visitors

Linge, N; Bates, D; Holgate, R; Parsons, DJ; Webb, P; Hay, D; Ward, D

Abstract

The growth in wireless and mobile communications technologies offers many new opportunities for museums who are constantly striving to improve their overall visitor experience. There is considerable interest in the use
of context-aware services to track visitors as they move around a museum gallery so that exhibit information can be delivered and personalised to the visitor.
In this paper we present a visitor information system called mi-Guide that is to be deployed within a new communications gallery at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester. This paper also reviews previous research into context-driven information systems and other context-aware museum applications.

Citation

Linge, N., Bates, D., Holgate, R., Parsons, D., Webb, P., Hay, D., & Ward, D. (2007, June). mi-guide: a wireless context driven information system for museum visitors. Presented at 1st International Joint Workshop on Wireless Ubiquitous Computing (WUC 2007), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 1st International Joint Workshop on Wireless Ubiquitous Computing (WUC 2007)
• Conference Location: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
• Start Date: Jun 1, 2007
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2007
• Deposit Date: Jan 8, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 8, 2009
• Related Public URLs: http://www.insticc.net/
• Additional Information: Additional Information : ISBN: 9789728865948 Proceedings of conference published by INSTICC Press (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication); Event Type : Conference