Dynamic Projection for the Design of an Adaptive Museum Guide

Abstract

Very often historical buildings used as museums are characterized by rooms completely covered with decorations (e.g. frescoes, inlay, etc.) rich in details and symbolic contents. Providing adequate information to the visitors to allow them to fully appreciate the artworks is of paramount importance in this context. X-reality technologies have the potential to provide an effective response to the need to combine the educational mission of museums with the ability to involve visitors emotionally, allowing the public to learn new knowledge in a playful way. This study introduces a Museum Guide System, based on Dynamic Projection, to increase the involvement of visitors to the Studiolo by Federico da Montefeltro at Urbino, minimizing technology intrusiveness by ensuring a complete fusion of digital contents with the physical environment. The system is able to track the visitors, to detect their profile and to offer information and multimedia contents tailored to the characteristics of the audience (e.g., children, adults).