Multimodal audio guide for museums and exhibitions

Sandra Gebbensleben; Jana Dittmann; Claus Vielhauer

doi:10.1117/12.641404

10 February 2006 Multimodal audio guide for museums and exhibitions

Sandra Gebbensleben, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer

Proceedings Volume 6074, Multimedia on Mobile Devices II; 60740S (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.641404
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In our paper we introduce a new Audio Guide concept for exploring buildings, realms and exhibitions. Actual proposed solutions work in most cases with pre-defined devices, which users have to buy or borrow. These systems often go along with complex technical installations and require a great degree of user training for device handling. Furthermore, the activation of audio commentary related to the exhibition objects is typically based on additional components like infrared, radio frequency or GPS technology. Beside the necessity of installation of specific devices for user location, these approaches often only support automatic activation with no or limited user interaction. Therefore, elaboration of alternative concepts appears worthwhile. Motivated by these aspects, we introduce a new concept based on usage of the visitor's own mobile smart phone. The advantages in our approach are twofold: firstly the Audio Guide can be used in various places without any purchase and extensive installation of additional components in or around the exhibition object. Secondly, the visitors can experience the exhibition on individual tours only by uploading the Audio Guide at a single point of entry, the Audio Guide Service Counter, and keeping it on her or his personal device. Furthermore, since the user usually is quite familiar with the interface of her or his phone and can thus interact with the application device easily. Our technical concept makes use of two general ideas for location detection and activation. Firstly, we suggest an enhanced interactive number based activation by exploiting the visual capabilities of modern smart phones and secondly we outline an active digital audio watermarking approach, where information about objects are transmitted via an analog audio channel.

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Sandra Gebbensleben, Jana Dittmann, and Claus Vielhauer "Multimodal audio guide for museums and exhibitions", Proc. SPIE 6074, Multimedia on Mobile Devices II, 60740S (10 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.641404

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