AR-based interactive exploration of a museum exhibit

In this paper we describe the development of a new augmented reality-based user interface for a museum exhibit at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum at Paderborn, Germany. In opposite to existing traditional presentation technologies in museums, the new user Interface will provide Interactive exploration of a real exhibit, In this case a personal computer Apple G4. For the Implementation we used the AR-ToolKit, a marker-based AR-Software. Furthermore, the user acceptance of the new interface has been evaluated with a poll based on personal interviews among the museum visitors.