ARCHIE: Socially-aware museum handheld guides
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Museum/site Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren, Belgium), Submitted by Expertise Centre for Digital Media (Hasselt University) Sponsors European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Developers Daniel Teunkens, Kris Gabriëls, Heleen Van Loon, Karel Robert, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx, Elke Manshoven |
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Project status
Ongoing (implementation)
Start year
2005
End year
2008
Summary
The Expertise Centre for Digital Media and the Gallo-Roman Museum are conducting ARCHIE, a research project that focuses on the potential for PDAs in the presentation of museum collections. ARCHIE aims to discover how a handheld guide can be used to enhance the museum learning experience - more precisely, by encouraging and stimulating interaction between visitors by use of the PDA. The ARCHIE framework, which supports localization, personalization and social interaction between visitors, can be used to create different mobile guides. A concrete mobile guide is deployed in the Gallo-Roman Museum in close cooperation with the museum staff.
We developed a collaborative museum game that has to be played in groups of 4 persons. The central topic of the game is the introduction of social differentiation in society as a result of interdependent exchange networks (round 825 BC). We designed the game in this way that every player is dependent on the concrete actions of other players; only through social interaction and cooperation they can come to a good end.
Tech spec
4 PDAs and a server, wireless network.
Comments
This collaborative game is especially developed for (school) groups of children (aged 10-14 years).