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Fusion of Multimedia and Mobile Technology in Audioguides for Museums and Exhibitions

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This chapter introduces software developments targeting visitors in museums. The main idea leading to these projects is to implement low cost systems that would provide visitors with informational contents about paintings, artworks, etc. The first application was achieved by means of a system that sends a multimedia content (images, audio and texts) to a visitor’s mobile phone, when the mobile phone is in communication range of a Bluetooth transmitter. The second application is an authoring tool that does not require any software development skill. Curators can set up easily and quickly contents for the visitors. Experiments took place in a Marine Park, where more than 200 contents had been developed. It is a web-based system. On smartphone side, HTML5, JavaScript, and Ajax technologies enable us to target a wide range of devices. In the last part of the chapter, these two approaches are compared, and also, taking into account the experiences, some new opportunities of developments are declared. In the last part of the chapter we compare these two approaches and we also open some new opportunities of developments taking into account our experiences.

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We are grateful to Ms Dominique Maratray, English teacher at ISEN-Brest, for her helpful cooperation.

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  1. Institut Supérieur de l’Electronique et du Numérique, Brest 20 rue Cuirassé Bretagne, CS 42807, 29228, Brest cedex 2, France

    Jean-Pierre Gerval & Yann Le Ru

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  1. Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Dharmendra Sharma

  2. Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Siberian State Aerospace University,, Russian Federation, Russia

    Margarita Favorskaya

  3. Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  4. Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

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Gerval, JP., Le Ru, Y. (2015). Fusion of Multimedia and Mobile Technology in Audioguides for Museums and Exhibitions. In: Sharma, D., Favorskaya, M., Jain, L., Howlett, R. (eds) Fusion of Smart, Multimedia and Computer Gaming Technologies. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14645-4_8

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