I'll try to find out what the infrastructure requirements are
the exploratorium used a "badge swiping" model that wouldn't be what we would want
On May 1, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Jorge Silva wrote:

that does seem to place the least amount of demands on the technology that visitors are required to bring in order to benefit, but it does shift those demands to the museums who have to invest in the infrastructure.

I wonder how many RFID towers the museums would have to have in place to achieve resolutions comparable to the other methods being described (?)

Jorge Silva, PhD
Inclusive Design Lab
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto

From: Clayton H Lewis <[email protected]>
Date: April 30, 2009 12:54:56 PM EDT
To: Antranig Basman <[email protected]>
Cc: Fluid Work <[email protected]>
Subject: "inverse" RFId

having belatedly looked at the page on in-museum services, I want to promote the "inverse" RFId approach that's mentioned within the RFId section... the idea being that visitors, not stuff in the museum, get tagged

seems as if this has powerful advantages with respect to all of the alternatives besides image recognition

in particular, visitors don't have to be assumed to bring any device, to get some benefit (eg a map of their visit for access later)

if the visitor does have a device, it only has to have web access to deliver useful stuff, if one arranges a match up of visitor's device to visitor's tag (a possible scenario: on the way into the museum, wearing your rfid tag, you pass through an entry big enough only for you... on your phone you go to a website that knows which tag is in the entry at that moment, and your phone thereby picks up what your tag is... thereafter the website content is targeted to you based on the location of your tag)

seems to me all of the alternatives, including image recognition, make considerably heavier tech demands on what visitors have to have

Clayton Lewis
Professor of Computer Science
Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
University of Colorado
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton



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