Personalized Learning and Personalized Tours: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Visiting a real or virtual museum or an archaeological site could be a hard task, especially for large sites provided with many works of art or ancient ruins. For this reason most historical sites propose guided tours, helping visitors to improve their satisfaction and stimulate interests. In this work we explore the use of an e-learning environment, called Lecomps5, in order to provide museums or other cultural sites with the capability of automatically planning personalized tours, according to visitors needs and interests. Lecomps5 allows a domain expert, through a suitable GUI, to build a pool of learning components concerning a particular site. Subsequently the system, by means of an embedded planner, automatically generates a personalized tour through the works of art, on the basis of the visitor’s artistic interests and needs. We propose a first application of this system to an ancient archaeological site called Lucus Feroniae, showing how an e-learning platform can be successfully used for guiding visitors as well.