As mobile devices are increasingly merging into our daily lives, exhibition ser-
vices are also facing innovation based on the newly available technologies. Our
project addresses these new circumstances. We developed a mobile exhibition
guide for the exhibition called quot;Mrs Brown's Big Day Out: Hamilton Women
in the 1950squot;. That is organized by the Waikato Museum. The proposed sys-
tem re-uses the TIP(Tourist Information Provider) system's framework and
provides information via mobile devices to visitors on Victoria Street, which
is an outdoor part of the exhibition. The information about a sight will be
delivered according to visitors' current locations and their interests.
We would also like to examine the possibility of re-using our TIP system
within the application area of exhibition guide. Therefore, we built the mobile
exhibition guide system under the TIP system's framework and developed
corresponding services that tailored the system to the requirements of visitors
and the exhibition organizer. During the development, we faced a number of
challenges, especially, modeling the unknown and unstructured exhibition data
into the TIP database. The development process as well as the implementation
and evaluation are detailed in this report.
