Recent developments in museum visitors' guides focus on context awareness,
personalization and multimodal and multimedia information presentation to individuals and …

Technology can play a crucial role in supporting museum visitors and enhancing their
overall museum visit experiences. Visitors coming to a museum do not want to be …

Visitors often tend to visit museums in groups, mainly with family or friends, yet most of the
today mobile museum guides focus on supporting the individual visitor. The technology …

This paper reports findings from a study of how a guidebook was used by pairs of visitors
touring a historic house. We describe how the guidebook was incorporated into their visit in …

Ubiquitous computing plays an increasing role in our lives. Typically, applications in
ubiquitous computing environ-ments are context aware, namely, they react to the situations …

This paper examines the current state of museum guide technologies and applications in
order to develop an analytical foundation for future research on an adaptive museum guide …

Agent-based architectures and Intelligent Virtual Agents have been used to support
education and exploration of objects and places of interest such as exhibitions, museums …

Currently, museums provide their visitors with interactive tour guide applications that can be
installed in mobile devices and provide timely tailor-made multimedia information about …

Today's complex distributed systems call for novel methods for modeling, design and
implementation. The “active museum” being developed within the PEACH project is an …

Abstract We have proposed Meta-Museum as a new knowledge sharing environment where
experts and novices can communicate with each other with agent support. Museum …