Attention-Aware Cultural Heritage Applications on Mobile Phones

Author

Ancona, Massimo ; Conte, Davide ; Quercini, Gianluca ; Casamassima, Marco

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell´´Informazione (DISI), University of Genoa, 1646, Genoa, Italy, ancona@disi.unige.it

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this paper we report a set of results extracted from our experience in using PDAs and 3G multimedia cellular phones in Cultural Heritage (CH) through projects covering an activity spanning 10 years. In particular, we focus on a interesting variant of context-awareness, namely attention-awareness, derived from our more recent ICT European project, named Agamemnon. Such concepts are essential to the development of next generation mobile applications in cultural heritage and in other comparable fields. We present an experiment tackling this new issue by exploiting image recognition technology and we deeply analyze advantages and drawbacks of this approach, showing some preliminary results.

Keywords

Application software; Cameras; Cellular phones; Cities and towns; Context awareness; Cultural differences; Image analysis; Image recognition; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; attention-awareness; context-awareness; image recognition; location;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2007. WoWMoM 2007. IEEE International Symposium on a

Conference_Location

Espoo, Finland

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0993-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0993-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351724

Filename

4351724