Interactive Museum Kiosk for Visualizng Visitor Activities
Nobuyuki Umezu, S. Nishida · 2024
We propose an interactive information kiosk for tracking and visualizing visitor activities in museums. Each visitor is assigned a sheet of paper with one’s own QR code and recocnized by presenting the code before interacting with our kiosks and other exhibits. The proposed kiosk has a 32 inch LCD built into a wooden stand and a inexpensive two-dimensional LiDAR sensor mounted at the top to detect visitor interactions of hand gestures towards the display surface. We implemented a four-choice quiz with 40 questions, an personal review of visitor activity, and a museum floor guide which can be scrolled using hand gestures. A server system has been also developed to collect information from kiosks and summarize it. A series of experiments was conducted in a local science museum for two days to evaluate the proposed system to track and visualize visitor activities. Our future work includes improving the system with various sensors and larger-scale experiments with more kiosks with multiple types of content.