Title :
Design and fabrication of a smart electronic guide for museums
Author :
Rostamian, Majed ; Parsa, Maryam ; Groza, Voicu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
With the advent of modern technology and novel methods of attracting people to museums, foremost sign of history of a country, different methods arise to guide people inside the museums in a best way possible to facilitate information exchange between individuals and museum guiders. We have designed and fabricated an electronic device, using AVR micro-controller, in order to facilitate transfer of information to the visitors of museums. The device is called smart electronic guide for museums and has the capability of providing the visitors of a museum with pictorial, scripted, and vocal information regarding each object in the museum. Low cost, easy access, promotable program, and being user-friendly in providing information are the main features of our device. The device has passed all the preliminary tests and the results are shown in this work.
Keywords :
information management; microcontrollers; museums; AVR microcontroller; information exchange; information transfer; museum guide; museum object; pictorial information; scripted information; smart electronic guide; vocal information; Computers; Digital audio players; Discharges (electric); Random access memory; Software; Subspace constraints; Turning; AVR Micro-controller; C Programming; Modular Programming; Museum User Guide;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2012 7th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Timisoara
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1013-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1012-3
DOI :
10.1109/SACI.2012.6250044