MUSE WEBPADS: PROVIDING MUSEUM VISITORS UNIVERSAL ACCESS

MUSE是一款支持Worldboard的便携式计算机，将为残疾博物馆参观者提供机会，通过定制他们的博物馆体验来提高他们的学习和休闲效益。这些人在博物馆里的选择往往有限，几乎没有机会将个人偏好、兴趣或特殊需求融入他们的参观中。这一定制设计的硬件和软件工具将提供与万维网上专门设计的信息渠道的无线连接，从而能够根据个人喜好提供广泛的内容和内容交付选择。此外，该工具的开发将基于通用设计原则，以将该工具的适用性扩展到更广泛的受众。该设备是一套更大的基于标准的开源工具的前端，这些工具使任何网站都可以向博物馆参观者提供信息，并使开发人员能够构建工具来利用基础设施。第一阶段将纳入该工具的目标受众参与性设计和测试、核心技术的可行性，并调查该工具的商业化和扩展，或该工具在其他休闲市场的改编。建议的商业应用：博物馆的休闲和学习工具市场很大，每年有超过10亿的游客。有中小型博物馆1万家，大型博物馆200家。这个市场只有少数几家公司提供服务，而且没有一家公司提供我们所提议的尖端技术水平。这项研究可能导致基于Web的博物馆内容开发标准，WebPad无线计算设备，以及用于创建将在这些设备上提供的内容的创作工具。

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.