Personalizing Museum Exhibition by Mediating Agents
We have proposed Meta-Museum as a new knowledge sharing environment
where experts and novices can communicate with each other with agent
support. Museum exhibitions are thought to be well organized
representations of the expert knowledge of curators, but they are just
one example of structures of knowledge among many possibilities, given
to museum visitors in a one-sided way. Therefore, traditional museum
exhibitions can hardly meet the vast requirements of general visitors
who possess a variety of interests. In this paper, we propose agents
to mediate between curators and visitors, so that both sides can
convey their interests and knowledge to one another and gain a better
understanding. These mediating agents visualize the semantic relations
of displays as a two-dimensional spatial structure based on the
viewpoints of the curators and visitors separately, and then together.
The structures reflect the interests of the visitors, while
maintaining the knowledge of the curators.