smart.card - High-tech Museum Visit

VIENNA 14. 7. 2003 (ots/PROTEXT) - The new "Media Worlds"Department of the Technical Museum in Vienna offers a specialform of visitor interaction using the innovative smart.card:the card enables visitors to register individually in thesystem: they choose a fictional name and can pick personalsettings - such as the language in which information should bedisplayed on the exhibition terminal. The card is recognisedwirelessly by reader devices spread throughout the exhibition assoon as the holder approaches the terminal concerned.

Guide and log book The smart.card activates an electronic logbook, which guides the way through the museum. A digital mapshows visitors in which part of the exhibition they arecurrently located, where they have already been, and what isleft for them to visit. On the terminals of the media.matrix - amedia history produced in multimedia - the visitor can see whichsubject areas have already been visited. In addition, selectedtext fields from the content of the media.matrix can be filed inthe "Rucksack".

Virtual Rucksack The card enables visitors to collect digitalexhibition items (images, texts, sounds, films) in a virtualrucksack. This content can be edited at workstations in the"Digital area" of the exhibition, or sent home via the Internet.Visitors can present a TV programme in an interactive televisionstudio in front of operational cameras, and store the videorecording in their rucksack using the smart.card. Excerpts froman archive of TV broadcasts that can be called up in theexhibition can also be stored in this way.

Communication instrument A further function of the card isdigital correspondence: any card user logged on to the systemcan be contacted with a short message. Furthermore, individualitems from the content stored in the "rucksack" can be sent tothem.

For further information: Technical Museum of Vienna BarbaraHafok Mariahilfer Straße 212, A-1140 Vienna Tel. +43/1/899 98-1200 barbara.hafok@tmw.at | www.technischesmuseum.at/presse

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