An Agent-Based Architecture for Museum Visitors’ Guide Systems

Agent-based museum and tour guides

“…Kuflik et al [23] raises some issues that are particular relevant to physically situated guides. Firstly, Kuflick et al notes that the electronic guide should complement existing interpretative techniques, not seek to replace them.…”

“…Kuflik et al [23] note that this focus on getting the application right has resulted in the system architecture receiving less attention. Kuflick et al [23] have addressed this neglected issue by proposing what they consider to be an efficient generic, layered architecture that can be used across applications. This work is within the larger context of the PEACH project but focuses on a specific set of artworks in the Bounconsiglio museum.…”

“…The HCI challenge is to handle many users, devices, media, components and interactions common to many ambient intelligent systems. To handle the complexity, Kuflik et al [23] have created a multi-agent (including user assistant, presentation composer, information broker, spatial information broker, positionAgent) and service-oriented architecture to dynamically determine and coordinate context and user appropriate services. The design is consistent with the expressed belief that "The main goal which the information presentation system must achieve is the integration of the 'physical' experience, without competing with the original exhibit items for the visitor's attention."…”

“…In some cases components are individual agents which work together to create an MAS (e.g. [23,24]). We also see that architectures for virtual agents commonly support a wide range of modalities and input and output devices.…”

An application framework for mobile, context-aware trails

“…Numerous application frameworks for mobile, context-aware computing have been developed [41,9,54,30,8,18]. Some of the frameworks, for example the Mobile Bristol toolkit [41] and the Context-aware Application Prototyper (iCAP) [18], facilitate the creation of context-aware applications through the use of a graphical user interface and extensible rule-base, while the remainder provide generic application components that can be reused and extended by software developers.…”