MAGA: A Mobile Archaeological Guide at Agrigento

The use of a PDA with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval and auto-localization functionalities can help people in visiting a museum in a natural manner instead of traditional audio/visual pre-recorded guides. The goal of this paper is to build an user-friendly virtual-guide system adaptable to the user needs of mobility and therefore usable on different mobile devices (e.g. PDAs, Smartphones). An information retrieval service is included which is easily accessible through a spoken language interaction or an auto-localization service. The system takes the advantages of Chatbot, speech recognition technologies and RFID detection, allowing a natural interaction with the user.