MUSE WEBPADS: PROVIDING MUSEUM VISITORS UNIVERSAL ACCESS

MUSE WEBPADS：为博物馆参观者提供普遍访问

• 批准号: 6214364
• 负责人: SONNY E KIRKLEY
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: WISDOM TOOLS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-22 至 2001-03-21
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6214364
• 关键词: Internet; computer assisted instruction; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; environment; learning; person with disability; portable biomedical equipment

MUSE is a Worldboard-enabled portable computer that will provide museum visitors with disabilities opportunities to enhance their learning and leisure benefits through customization of their museum experiences. These individuals often face limited choices in the museum setting, with little opportunity to incorporate personal preferences, interests Or special needs into their visit. This custom designed hardware and software tool will provide wireless connectivity to specially designed channels of information on the World Wide Web, enabling a wide range of options for content and content delivery based on personal preferences. In addition, the development of the tool will be based on universal design principles, to extend the tool's applicability to a broader audience. The device is the front-end of a larger set of standards-based open source tools which enable any Web site to provide information to museum visitors and able developer to build tools to take advantage of the infrastructure. Phase I will incorporate target audience participatory design and testing of this tool, feasibility of core technologies, and investigate commercialization and expansion of the tool, or adaptations of the tool into other leisure markets. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: With over one billion visitors annually, the market for leisure and learning tools in museums is large. There are 10,000 small and medium size museums and 200 large ones. This market is serviced by only a handful of companies and none of them providing the level of cutting edge technology we are proposing. This research may lead to a Web-based standards for the development of museum content, a WebPad wireless computing device, and an authoring tool for creating the content to be delivered on these devices.

缪斯（Muse）是一款支持世界板的便携式计算机，将为博物馆游客提供残疾人的机会，通过自定义博物馆体验来增强其学习和休闲福利。这些人通常在博物馆环境中面临有限的选择，几乎没有机会将个人喜好，兴趣或特殊需求纳入他们的访问中。这个定制设计的硬件和软件工具将在万维网上为特殊设计的信息渠道提供无线连接性，从而为基于个人喜好提供了各种各样的内容和内容交付的选项。此外，该工具的开发将基于通用设计原则，以将工具的适用性扩展到更广泛的受众。该设备是较大的基于标准的开源工具的前端，该工具使任何网站都能向博物馆访问者和有能力的开发人员提供信息，以构建利用基础架构的工具。第一阶段将纳入该工具的目标受众参与设计和测试，核心技术的可行性，调查工具的商业化和扩展，或将工具的改编到其他休闲市场中。拟议的商业应用程序：每年有十亿多个游客，博物馆的休闲和学习工具市场很大。有10,000个中小型博物馆和200个大型博物馆。这个市场仅由少数公司提供服务，没有一个提供我们建议的最前沿技术的水平。这项研究可能会导致基于网络的博物馆内容，WebPAD无线计算设备的开发标准，以及用于创建在这些设备上交付的内容的创作工具。