TalkingChalks is an IoT system that can be used in a museum. It can help visitors during the tour providing information about the museum, the statues and the story behind them. A smartband with the most suitable profile will be provided to each visitor, so that can everyone can have a customized experience.
TalkingChalks was born for the course of IoT @ Sapienza University of Rome.
During a conference with the curators of the Sapienza Museum of Classical Art we found out that they needed some systems to give some freshness to the Museum. Among the requestes and the ideas it came out that they do not have audio guides, and so we invented TalkingChalks to help the Museum giving some attractiveness for users by letting the statues - literally - talk.
TalkingChalks is the effective rensponse to what they need, and we made it real by investigating among the users on what would be the best way to make TalkingChalks real: we made surveys, tests, we added personalized profiles and appreciation recognition. Then we merged our knowledge to develop a simple and solid system to give statues a voice.
Here is TalkingChalks.
As requested, HERE are the third delivery updates.
Personas, profiles and storyboards to better understand what we have in mind: we present art with art.
You can check out the video for more information.
Short description of the architecture of our project: how the data flow is organized into the system and what technologies we are using.
Here's a video description of the architecture part.
Evaluation of the entire project: we collected data by sourveying and asking for the needs of the users, so we came out with the idea of TalkingChalks.
Here data are analyzed and interpreted and through the evaluation we decided de feasibility of the project.
Videro here.
Here is provided the Demo folder containing the essential code and instructions to run our demo.
The Demo shows the behaviour of the gateway receiving data from the lora boards and forwarding the data to the cloud: this is the skeleton of our main product.
How will the final product appear to the user? Take a funny look at our concept clip!
And if you want to give a look to a more complete product both from the point of view of the authors and the users, in this video you can have a more clear idea of what we are talking about.
The immature side of the Demo is the Preliminary Test section, where we gave a proof of concept of our technical work.
Web App - For the Curators
The curators of the Museum can access an user friendly interface to have the informations about statues and profiles displayed in a single look: by selecting the device, they will know the statue it is equipped on an the profiles that visited the statue.
We have prepared a power point presentation.
Here is a blog post that presents our work