Gianluca Panici

Talking Chalks

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. Why TalkingChalks? 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.

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