IoT and Engagement in the Ubiquitous Museum
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Materials and Methods
- enable a bidirectional communication between WSN and mobile devices;
- function for a long duration with minimal maintenance; and
- be compatible with customer grade mobile devices.
3.1. The Real Environment: Rocca di Gradara Museum
3.2. Network of Sensors
- Overlapping of signal between different sensors should be avoided.
- Beacons should be installed far from any source of noise.
- The placement of the sensors must allow the detection of all visitors who pass through the planned path.
3.3. Mobile Application
3.4. Data Collection and Data Analysis
3.5. Statistical Methods
4. Results
4.1. Data Pre-Processing
4.2. Total Visit Length and Room Coverage
4.3. Visits to Individual Rooms
4.4. Impressions vs. Content Consumption
4.5. Principal Component Analysis
4.5.1. Visit Patterns
4.5.2. Individual Visits
5. Conclusions and Future Works
5.1. Short, But Not Random, Attention Span
5.2. Limitations and Future Work
5.3. Final Remarks
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Pierdicca, R.; Marques-Pita, M.; Paolanti, M.; Malinverni, E.S. IoT and Engagement in the Ubiquitous Museum. Sensors 2019, 19, 1387. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061387
Pierdicca R, Marques-Pita M, Paolanti M, Malinverni ES. IoT and Engagement in the Ubiquitous Museum. Sensors. 2019; 19(6):1387. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061387
Chicago/Turabian StylePierdicca, Roberto, Manuel Marques-Pita, Marina Paolanti, and Eva Savina Malinverni. 2019. "IoT and Engagement in the Ubiquitous Museum" Sensors 19, no. 6: 1387. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061387
APA StylePierdicca, R., Marques-Pita, M., Paolanti, M., & Malinverni, E. S. (2019). IoT and Engagement in the Ubiquitous Museum. Sensors, 19(6), 1387. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061387