Adaptive Interfaces for Web Museum Applications: the Virtual Marble Museum

Effective levels of adaptation to different types of users in interactive museum systems

Users interact with museum application interfaces for many reasons. There are various types of users, who want to perform various tasks, in various contexts, that can access the same Web site. Thus, it is important to have user interfaces able to adapt to these different user requirements to facilitate the accomplishment of the desired goals. Most current interfaces to museum information do not...

Personalization through It in Museums. Does It Really Work? the Case of the Marble Museum Website

Designing an Agent to Support Interactive Access to Museum Information

If we consider most applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. Adaptive support, by which an application provides different information taking into account the users’ interactions, can provide useful assistance. However, completely automatic adaptive support ca...

Toward the Synchronized Experiences between Real and Virtual Museum

This research starts from the idea that through synchronized experiences between real and virtual museum, users can achieve thorough comprehension on the heritage . We investigated the virtual museum by constituting the concept of virtual museum with the reciprocal real museum. Based on the fundamental purpose and role of the museum, we suggested a model of a virtual museum composed by a virtua...

Designing an Adaptive Virtual Guide for Web Applications

Most applications accessible through the Web suffer from a noticeable lack of support for adapting to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. However, completely automatic adaptive support can still be confusing for users who may not understand the reasons for the dynamic change in the behaviour of an application. In this paper, we present a poss...