AGAMEMNON aims at providing a visitor to a site of historical
interest with a personalised, information enriched experience
through 3G cell. phones and at the same time contributing to the
preservation of cultural heritage
Project Description: AGAMEMNON
is a project co-funded undert the IST 6th Framework Program of
the European Commission, and it started on the 1st of January
2004.The duration is 30 months (finishing in June 2006), involving
6 international organisations, co-ordinated by TXT e-Solutions.
The project will lead to the development
of an advanced 3G mobile application, that will act as an "on-line" guide to archaeological sites and museums, thanks to the new multi-media capabilities of the cellular phones. Visitors will be provided with enriched and personalised
information on monuments and places of interest. Agamemnon will drive them through a personalised itinerary, created according to their interests and time available. The system will be also capable of recoginising specific monuments through the pictures taken by visitors with their mobile phones cameras. Agamemnon will also
contribute to optimise the visith path (avoid over-crowding situations) and to the preservation
of the site by sending images taken by visitors to site guardians.
The final prototype, available at mid 2006, will
be capable of:
- Advanced user profiling based on static questionnaires and unobtrusive dynamic human behaviour/preferences analysis
- Profile-based, adaptive and proactive visit scheduling, also considering overcrowding avoidance analysis
- Relay on existing 3G phones
and networks (i.e. UMTS, GPRS, etc..)
- Image analysis technology
to identify users attention
- Personalised information
delivery based on users attention and profile, leveraging on
3G services
- Voice-based commands
interaction
- Active role played
by the visitors in preserving the cultural heritage through
specifically tagged pictures taking