Collaborative innovative study system for digital museums

近年来，一些艺术和科学博物馆试图使自己的数字化使用数字技术的显示。然而，传统的数字博物馆通常使用技术向参观者提供信息，因此是单向的，没有鼓励参观者积极参与和合作，以丰富博物馆展示的信息。利用最新的硬件设备技术，软件代理技术和群体学习技术来改善现有博物馆的上述缺陷，成功地提出了一种新的博物馆模式，本研究的关键技术是RFID棋盘游戏系统和实时计算机仿真系统。RFID板排列几百个扇区的微型天线阵列，以检测放置在其表面上的RFID的位置和类型。我们之前通过在日本小学的实验证明了它的性能，将其用于社会文化课中的环境问题和国际相互理解问题。本研究将该技术扩展到协同创新教育系统中。本研究假设博物馆是参观者体验创新教育和传递信息的场所，因此数字博物馆是这种活动的框架，并将实验系统带到法国拉瓦尔的虚拟现实展览中，获得了实地研究的结果和参观者的热烈响应。我们还在日本国立科学技术博物馆进行了将其用于博物馆导览系统的实验，并发表了一些研究论文，因此我们将其汇总为最终的研究报告。

In recent years some art and science museums try to make themselves digitalized using digital technology on the display. These conventional digital museums, however, usually use the technology to offer information towards visitors, hence one way traffic - none of them encourages the active participation of the visitors and collaboration in between to enrich the information obtaining from the museum displays.The research "Collaborative innovative education system for digital museum, " in the contrast, has utilized digital museum display utilizing the latest hardware device technology, software agent technology and group learning technology to improve the above mentioned flaw of current museums and successed in proposing a new style of museums.The key technology in this research is the combination of RFID board-game system and real-time computer simulation system. An RFID board arranges a few hundred sectors' array of micro antennas to detect the position and the type of RFIDs placed on its surface. We previously proved its performance through the experiments in Japanese elementary schools, using it for environment issues and international mutual understanding issues in the social culture classes. In this research we extended the technology to the collaborative innovative education system. In the research we assume a museum as the field where visitors experience innovative education and transmit some information, therefore the term digital museum is the framework for such an activity.We brought the experiment system to Virtual Reality exhibition in city Laval, France and obtained field study result as well as an enthusiastic response from the visitors. We also made experiment for utilizing it for museum guide system in National Science and Technology Museum, Japan.We published some papers out from the research, so we compiled them for the final research report.