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