Robots and Cultural Heritage: New Museum Experiences

The introduction of new technologies to enhance the visiting museum experience is not a novelty. A large variety of interactive systems are nowadays available, including virtual tours, which makes cultural heritage accessible remotely. The theme of increase in accessibility and attractiveness has lately been faced with the employment of the service robotics, covering various types of applications. Regrettably, many of robotics solutions appear not really successful in terms of utility and usability. On the basis of this awareness, a design for a new robotic solution for cultural heritage has been proposed. The project, developed at the royal residence of Racconigi Castle, consists of a telepresence robot designed as a tool to explore inaccessible areas of the heritage. The employed robot, called Virgil, was expressly designed for the project. The control of the robot is entrusted to the museum guides in order to enhance their work and enrich the cultural storytelling.

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Maria Luce Lupetti

Claudio Germak

Luca Giuliano

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 322-329

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[0001]Politecnico di Torino

Corso Settembrini, 178, Turin, Italy

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.36

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

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Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] M AlvarezR GalanF MatiaD Rodriguez-LosadaA Jimenez 2010 An emotional model for a guide robot IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part A: System and Humans 40 5 September

[2] S BarileM Saviano 2012 From the management of Cultural Heritage to the governance of Cultural Heritage system (in Italian) Patrimonio culturale e creazione di valore Verso nuovi percorsi Cedam

[3] R BeachamH DenardF Niccolucci 2006 An introduction to the London charter The Evolution of the ICTechnology in Cultural Heritage Joint Event CIPA/VAST/EG/EuroMed Event

[4] B BisolA CarnevalleF Lucivero 2014 Human rights, values and new technologies. The case of robotic ethics in Europe (in Italian) Metodo, International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 2 1

[5] CSIRO 2015 Telepresence robot for museums Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Australia http://www.csiro.au/OrganisationStructure/Flagships/Digital-Productivity-and-Services-Flagship/Smart-secure-infrastructure/MuseumRobot-Case-study.aspx 12 March 2015

[6] D. M 2001 Document of guidelines on technical and scientific criteria and on standard of functioning and development of museums (in Italian) Art. 150, comma 6, del D.L. no. 112, 1998. G.U. October 19, no. 244, S. O

[7] Droids Company 2015 http://www.droidscompany.com/droidlomnynorio/index.html 12 March 2015

[8] S. L Epstein 2015 Wanted: collaborative intelligences Artificial Intelligence 221 April Elsevier

[9] J Falconer 2013 Honda’s ASIMO get a new job at museum IEEE Spectrum 9 July http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/human oids/honda-asimo-humanoid-robot-gets-new-job-at-museum 28 June 2015

[10] C Germak 2014 from the interview of Strappavecchia, M. C. Robotics at museums (in Italian) L’indro 17 November http://www.lindro.it/0-cultura/2014-11-17/158271-robotica-musei 12 March 2015

[11] T HoganD GoveasR NoonanL Twomey 2015 Tarascope: controlling remote telescope through tangible interaction TEI’15 January 16–19 Stanford, CA, USA

[12] E Ippoliti 2011 Digital media for the cultural heritage fruition (in Italian) Disegnarecon 4 8

[13] ISO 2011 Ergonomics of human-system interaction – guidance on World Wide Web user interfaces ISO 9241-151:2008 17 September http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/c atalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37031 28 June 2015

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[15] I McDonnell 2001 The role of the tour guide in transferring cultural understanding Working Paper No. 3 School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism Sydney, Australia

[16] I NourbakhshJ BobenageS GrangeR LutzR MeyerA Soto 1999 An affective mobile robot educator with a full-time job International Journal of Artificial Intelligence 114 Elsevier

[17] Oiron 2015 Norio: Un robot pour entrer dans l’histoire (in French) Château d’Oiron, National Centre for Monuments France http://www.oiron.fr/norio-robot-de-visite.html 12 March 2015

[18] M Pirrelli 2012 The hidden art deposits (in Italian) Commenti&Inchieste I Sole 24 Ore http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/commenti-eidee/2012-03-30/giacimenti-nascosti-arte-064018.shtml?uuid=AbIDg9FF 12 March 2015

[19] N Proctor 2011 The Google Art Project: a new generation of museums on the web? Curator: The Museum Journal 54 2 April

[20] Istat 2013 Museums, Archeological Areas and Monuments in Italy Socio-demographic and Environmental Statistics Directorate Italy 5 December http://www.istat.it/en/archive/106183 28 June 2015

[21] P SalviniC LaschiP Dario 2010 Design for acceptability: improving robots’ coexistence in human society International Journal of Social Robotics Springer

[22] R. D SchraftB GrafA TraubD John 2001 A mobile robot platform for assistance and entertainment International Journal of Industrial Robot 28 1 MCB University Press

[23] S Suchy 2006 Museum management: emotional value and community engagement Intercom 2006 2–4 November Taipei, Taiwan

[24] S SylaiouV KillintzisI PaliokasK ManiaP Patias 2014 Usability evaluation of virtual museums’ interfaces visualization technologies VAMR 2014, Part II Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8526 Springer

[25] Tate 2015 After Dark Tate Britain London, UK http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/special-event/after-dark 12 March 2015

[26] S ThrunM BennewitzW BurgardA. B CremersF DellaertD FoxD HahnelC RosenbergN RoyJ SchulteD Schulz 1999 Minerva: a tour-guide robot that learns. KI-99 Advances in Artificial Intelligences, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1701 Springer

[27] P. A TressetF. F Laymarie 2012 Sketches by Paul the robot D CunninghamD House Computational Aesthetics in Graphics Visualization and Imaging

[28] T WillekeC KunzI Nourbakhsh 2001 The history of the Mobot museum robot series: an evolutionary study Flairs – 01, Proceedings. AAAI

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