Museum Tour Robot

Group 4:

Anne Brouwers

Anne Coppelmans

Margreet Nelemans

Sophie Remie

Sanne van der Laan

Contents

• Vision
• Objectives
• Users
• Approach/Design Choices
• Conversation
• Demonstration

Vision

A museum tour robot to enhance a visitors’ experience in a museum by providing an interactive experience.

• Personal and unique tour
• Introduction dialogue
• Dialogue about the artworks

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Focus for this project only on dialogue

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Objectives

The robot must be able to:

• Enhance the museum experience by giving personal tour based on interest and background of the user.
• Attract younger visitors to the museum by combining technology and personalized tours with the museum.
• Conduct a personal dialogue with a user.
• Easy to use also by less technical engineered users.
• Applicable to any museum.

Users

We focus on younger users between 18 and 30 years.

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• Museum visitors (between 18 and 30 years old)
• Museum owners
• Museum employees
• Maintenance technicians
• Government

Pepper

Use of the Pepper robot along with the developing software Choregraph.

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Social robot with integrated:

• Speech recognition
• Speech processing
• Face detection
• Non-verbal communication

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Approach / design choices

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• A literature review on the SotA.

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• A study on general tours in museum (Van Abbe museum).

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• Delve into the use of Choregraphe.

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• Writing of a code which ensures that Pepper could have a conversation with a user.

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Conversation

• Introduction

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• Different topics for artworks

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• Common questions

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• A looooot of synonyms

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Conversation

Demonstration

Thank you for your attention!

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