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1. Virtual Museum Tour>> University of Siena opens museum with New Interactive Technologies (Siena, Italy) "President's Building, a gallery between the past and future." "New technologies of today along a historical path"  Siena Corriere, November 7, 2003 |
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Introduction: On friday November seventh 2003, the University of Siena marked its 763rd Birthday and opened itself to new era of technology. Five Interactive touch screen kiosks told the story of the University's past, present and future. Eight hundred year old artifacts, together with beautifully elaborate graphical interfaces begins to illuminate the long history of the University of Siena and its growth. Our Mission: To capture the University of Siena and its history though highly aesthetic interactive experiences. |
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Our Concept: Our visual metaphor derives for the the walls of Siena. These walls will tell you where a door used to be, where a plant might have sat in a brick window. The concept of, "history beneath stone," was our starting point. |
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Our Interaction: We took hundreds of photos of Siena. Its walls gave us clues, where doors used to open into the streets. We took these clues and re-opened its potential. With interactive media, the user re-opens the past. Walls and stones are at your command to, touch, push and move. After you have moved the bricks and stones, the user can literally, read its history; which relates to the age of the stones themselves. Basically, older stones gives the user older history, and vice versa. |
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The Project: On the left, is a screen shot of Room One, "The Birth of the University." For an, "in depth" look into our work, take our on-line tour of the museum. |
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Our Technology: With a replica of the 800 year old University Director's staff, the user can capture any piece of history throughout the five room museum. Using Radio Frequency Identifiers (RFID) we have given the user the ability to simply, wave the staff at any information present. The RFID captures the selected information in our database. After the User has experienced our museum, they arrive at the last computer. With another wave of the staff, everything the user has captured is on the screen. The User then decides what he or she wants, then with an on screen keyboard, the user enters their email and the information is sent via email. |
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