The role of adaptive hypermedia in a context-aware tourist GUIDE
Communications of the ACM - The Adaptive Web
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
From Informing to Remembering: Ubiquitous Systems in Interactive Museums
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Story fountain: intelligent support for story research and exploration
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
WMTE '04 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'04)
RFID enhances visitors' museum experience at the Exploratorium
Communications of the ACM - Special issue: RFID
Spotlight browsing of resource archives
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
A Lifecycle approach to evaluating MyArtSpace
WMTE '06 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education
Semantic browsing of digital collections
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
Identifying the value types of virtual communities based on the Q method
International Journal of Web Based Communities
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The use of mobile technologies to support museum visitors has primarily been concerned with the adoption of the technology as an information device. This has been found in several evaluation studies to promote a 'heads-down' interaction with the device, rather than a 'hands-on' interaction with the museum exhibits. This article presents an application where museum visitors use their own mobile phones to send a text message that bookmarks the things they find interesting during their visit. Afterwards, they can explore a personalised set of online resources which are organised as a series of presentation structures that are tailored according to their identified interests. This enables the visitors to engage fully with the museum exhibits during their visit, knowing that they can find out more information online on any topic they request. In this application, the resources are produced by an online community of interest that is associated with the museum. The community knowledge base is repurposed to fit the needs of the museum visitors. The visitors' use of these resources is fed back to the source community which, in turn, informs and motivates its ongoing content production.