ABSTRACT

The growing availability of small devices whose computational and interactive resources are continuously increasing in terms of power and capacity has raised an interesting discussion on how to exploit them to support users in various contexts of use. In this work we consider users who freely move about a building (in particular, in a museum). In these environments the most effective support is currently provided through either interactive multimedia kiosks or interactive audio recorders. In the former case the main limitation is that the kiosk does not allow the user to move while receiving information, whereas the latter allow the user only to hear predefined texts associated with each work.