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A Next-Generation Audio-Guide System for Museums“SoundSpot”: An Experimental Study

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 4694))

Abstract

This paper proposes the SoundSpot system, a location/user-dependent audio guide system to reduce many restrictions of existing audio-based annotations. It can track the positions of visitors and then only provide sound information to the limited spots around them. We experimented it in an elementary school, where students listened to annotations played by it and their understanding was evaluated. The result of the questionnaire based survey and their answers to the quiz regarding the contents of the sounds proved that the system had the possibility to enable users to enough listen to and understand the contents.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Graduate School of Cultural Studies and Human Science, Kobe University, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,  

    Akiko Deguchi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science,  

    Hiroshi Mizoguchi

  3. Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University,  

    Shigenori Inagaki

  4. Department of Information Design, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University,  

    Fusako Kusunoki

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  1. Akiko Deguchi
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  2. Hiroshi Mizoguchi
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Bruno Apolloni Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi Jain

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Deguchi, A., Mizoguchi, H., Inagaki, S., Kusunoki, F. (2007). A Next-Generation Audio-Guide System for Museums“SoundSpot”: An Experimental Study. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74829-8_92

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74829-8_92

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