Hands-free Style Museum Display Support System Considering Visitors Location and Variation

本课题的研究目标是实现一种新颖的博物馆陈列支撑系统。该系统可以针对不同的访问者和他们的情况进行个性化的处理。为了实现这一目标，研究人员结合了各种技术来创建各种内容，管理许多传感器，项目图像和控制声场。这种组合可以实现以下功能：(1)识别访问者并识别其位置；(2)显示访问者专用的图像内容；(3)向访问者周围的小区域传输声音内容。在项目期间，研究者进行了以下研究项目。1)评估实验在兵库县自然博物馆进行了原型系统有效性和可行性评估实验。博物馆给了我们占据这个空间和使用它的展品的机会。实验对象是神户大学附属住吉小学的学生。更多的实验结果定量地证明和支持以下观点：将真实展品与我们目前研究的参观者定位、小区域声音传输等技术相结合，可以有效地提高参观者的兴趣和理解能力。2)图像投影技术的发展通过将寻找游客位置技术与项目图像技术相结合，研究人员开发了一种根据情况和引导计划在必要的地点和适当的时间投影适当的图像来引导游客的新技术。该技术也在兵库县博物馆进行了实验评估。3)为实验创建内容为上述实验创建了图像和声音内容。由于实验的对象是小学生，调查者对此很关注，并有意征求小学教师的意见。4)集成与分析我们目前研究的基本技术，如访客定位、图像投影、小区域声音传输等，成熟度尚处于实验室水平。最初，研究人员计划整合所有这些技术，并进行实际实验，以评估在真实博物馆的整合。然而，在实际的博物馆环境中，仍然存在各种技术障碍和问题需要解决，如空间限制和电磁干扰。少

The goal of this research project is to realize a novel support system for museum display. The system can adopt variety of visitors and their situations individually. In order to reach this goal, the investigators have combined technologies to create various contents, govern many sensors, project images, and control sound field. This combination can realize the below items :(1) Identifying a visitor and recognizing his/her location(2) Displaying image contents dedicated to the visitor, and(3) Transmitting sound contents to the small area around the visitor. During the term of the project, the investigators have conducted the following research items.1) Experiment for evaluationAn experiment to evaluate effectiveness and feasibility of the prototype system was conducted at Natural Museum of Hyogo Prefecture.The museum gave us opportunities to occupy the space and to use its exhibits. The experimenters were pupils of Sumiyoshi Elementary School attached to Kobe University. Experimental r … More esults quantitatively demonstrate and support the following: It is effective to increase visitor's interest and comprehension that combination of the real exhibits and the technologies which we have studied so far, such as visitor localization and small area sound transmission.2) Development of image projecting techniqueBy combining techniques to find the visitor's location and project images, the investigators have developed a novel technique to guide the visitor by projecting proper image at necessary location and proper time according to situation and guide plan. This technique was also experimentally evaluated at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum.3) Creating contents for experimentsBoth image and sound contents for the above experiments have been created. Since the target of the experiment was elementary school pupil, the investigators paid their attention to it and intentionally took opinions of primary school teachers.4)Integration and analysisMaturity of the elemental technologies which we have studied so far, such as visitor localization, image projection, small area sound transmission, are laboratory-level. Originally the investigators had a plan to integrate all of these technologies and conduct a practical experiment to evaluate the integration at the real museum. However, it has been revealed that in practical museum environment there remain various technical hurdles and problems to be solved, such as spatial constraints and electromagnetic interference. Less