Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum’s collection but cannot express the relations between heritage objects and related concepts found in contemporary museum exhibitions. A modern museum exhibition, rather than providing a taxonomic classification of herit...

The paper presents an integrated environment which enables museum personnel to catalogue and at the same time publish online museum exhibits. The system is based on international standards and is highly customisable to cater the needs of a variety of museum types. Moreover, the underlying database allows storing for the same exhibit documentations for different audiences and in multiple languag...

In this paper, we describe the application of the novel SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) algorithm [1] for the recognition of objects of art. For this purpose, we developed a prototype of a mobile interactive museum guide consisting of a tablet PC that features a touchscreen and a webcam. This guide recognises objects in museums based on images taken by the visitor. Using different image sets ...

If we consider most museums applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. Adaptive support, by which an application provides different information taking into account the users’ interactions, can give useful assistance. In particular, we focus our attention on how...

1 Species 2000, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, 2333 CR, Th e Netherlands 2 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK; and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 3 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, USA (address for correspondence: Botany Department, Th e Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chi...

The museum provides the perfect setting for the convergence of culture, reflection, personal connections, and communication, and many museums supplement these visitor experiences through the use of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems. While there has been past HCI research on various combinations of these four areas, the overall goal of this study is to explore the emotional links museum v...

We describe an innovative system designed for museums to create, manage and present multimedia based representations of museum artefacts in virtual exhibitions both inside and outside museums. Our system creates digital surrogates through a novel stereo photogrammetry system with little user interaction. The resulting 3D objects are refined using state-of-the-art 3D modelling software configure...

The Polytechnic Museum began to collect calculating devices and computing machines in the first years of its formation in the 1860s.. Today, the Museum has the Fund Collection “Electronic Digital Computing Machines”, which consists from seven systematic collections and eleven personal funds of Russian scientists. There are about three hundred objects and over sixteen hundred documentary, printe...

A virtual museum guide agent that uses human relationship-building behaviors to engage museum visitors is described. The agent, named “Tinker”, appears in the form of a human-sized anthropomorphic robot, and uses nonverbal conversational behavior, empathy, social dialogue, reciprocal selfdisclosure and other relational behavior to establish social bonds with users. Tinker can describe exhibits ...

'Interactives" have become an integral part of the exhibits of many museums. The term 'interactives' has been used as a shorthand description for interactive multi-media displays based around a computer and operated by an individual. In the Powerhouse Museum, Australia's largest museum, the term's usage has been expanded to include manually controlled exhibits that don't use a computer at all. ...