Personalizing Semantic Structure of Museum Exhibitions by Mediating between Curators and Visitors

摘要

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 a method for personalizing the semantic structure of museum exhibitions by mediating curators and visitors. The semantic relations of displays are visualized 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. We disscuss the detail of the method and show an example of personalization. Evaluation results through a subjective experiment is also given.