Abstract Near Field Communication (NFC) as a promising short range wireless
communication technology facilitates mobile phone usage of billions of people throughout …

Fine-arts museums design exhibitions to educate, inform and entertain visitors. Existing work
leverages technology to engage, guide and interact with the visitors, neglecting the need of …

In this paper the authors present the design of a multimedia mobile guide for the visitors of
the Wolfsoniana museum of Genoa. The system presented is part of an upcoming field trial …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of multimedia mobile guides in
museum environments. Mobile devices have the capabilities to detect the user context and …

In increasingly hyper-connected societies, where individuals rely on short and fast online
communications to consume information, museums face a significant survival challenge …

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an integration of contactless smart card communication
technology into mobile devices, such as mobile phones. NFC technology provides three …

An established body of work in CSCW and related communities studies social and
cooperative interaction in museums and cultural heritage sites. A separate and growing …

This study explores the feasibility of forming detailed inferences about museum visitor
behavior based on analysis of data collected via Dr. Discovery—a mobile question-and …

This paper proposes a method for automatically generating postcards that reflect each
visitor's museum experience by analyzing the log of our original iPad app that supports and …

NFC (Near Field Communication) technology allows people to integrate their daily-use
loyalty cards, credit cards etc. into their mobile phones. In addition to integrating those cards …