We present ARCHIE, an interdisciplinary research project of the Expertise Centre for Digital Media (Hasselt University) and the Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren (Province of Limburg) which aims to discover how a handheld guide can be used to enhance the museum learning experience. Because we stress on the important role of social interaction as a prerequisite for intellectual, social, personal an...

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There is an increase in Augmented Reality (AR) adoption in the tourism sector and increasingly visitor attractions, museums and art galleries start to use AR for the enhancement of the visitor experience. However, smaller organisations often fear high investments without the proof of concept due to risks of failures. Therefore, the present study uses a small museum in Manchester to investigate ...

This research starts from the idea that through synchronized experiences between real and virtual museum, users can achieve thorough comprehension on the heritage . We investigated the virtual museum by constituting the concept of virtual museum with the reciprocal real museum. Based on the fundamental purpose and role of the museum, we suggested a model of a virtual museum composed by a virtua...

In providing learning materials for the digital era, a thorough knowledge of the context and the conditions under which the learning process takes place is essential. This is especially true for museums, informal learning environments open to a public of all backgrounds and ages, where one of the latest trends observed is the use of mobile multimedia guides as communication and interpretation m...

Over the past few years, some museums have launched multimedia projects (on PDAs, kiosks, and Web sites) that allow visitors to bookmark information of interest for later use at home or in the classroom, in at attempt to prolong the museum experience, build a stronger relationship with the visitor, and facilitate the learning process. Despite its great potential, however, there is still very li...

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Providing a knowledge-based mobile learning interface and content is a good way to expand the user participation in a science museum with a web-based system, especially as the internet and computing fields grow more and more diversely. There are many ways for providing museum to collect information, however some yield better knowledge and interesting content than others. This paper presents a p...

Art museums across the country have become increasingly interested in creating interactive gallery spaces geared to family audiences, as evidenced by the high attendance at the J. Paul Getty Museum’s symposium on this topic over the weekend of June 4 and 5, 2005. These interactive galleries are typically conceptualized as spaces that address the unique learning needs of families in a museum env...