Application Research On The Small And Medium Sized Museum Mobile AR-Guided System

With the development of the knowledge economy era,lifelong learning has become the requirements of the times.Informal learning is an important part of lifelong learning,museum as an important informal learning place plays an important role in realizing the people’s lifelong learning.With the development of the museum,as the second classroom,museums,providing lots of extracurriculum activities,have gradually become an assistant tool for school education.In recent years,our government has gradually implemented the museum free and open policy to the public.There are more and more people visiting the museum.However,the physical museum has a lot of problems,such as exhibits on display in the form of a single,the navigation mode lacking of diversity and less attractive to the public,resulting that the educational function of the museum can not be implemented.To solve these problems,we urgently need to find more and better ways of collections displaying,by combining the latest technology to give full play to the educational role of the museum.Augmented reality(AR)technology is an emerging technology,which is developed on the basis of virtual reality(VR)technology.It can combine the computer-generated virtual information(image,video,audio,3D model and 3D animation)with the real scene,to provide a kind of experience based on reality and beyond reality for the users.With the development of AR,its running platform has gradually shifted from costly desktop computers and workstations to low-cost mobile platform.And its display device has gradually shifted from the head-mounted device to the handheld mobile terminal device.Miniaturization and portability of the hardware promotes the popularization of AR.At present,the augmented reality technology has been widely used in advertising,marketing and other commercial areas.The applications of AR also include military,industry,medical treatment,arts,museum and educational fields.AR’s applications in the field of museum could expand the contents of exhibitions,increasing the interaction between the visitors and exhibitions,improving visitors’ immersive sensations and enrich visiting experience of visitors.This study reviews the applications of augmented reality technology in the museum field at home and abroad and points its research vacancies.Meanwhile it reviews the evolution of AR and summarizes the characteristics of AR.Taking " the Opera Museum of Shanxi Normal University " as an example,this paper develops an assisted AR-guided system based on mobile terminal device,using “Aurasma” platform,and carries out an empirical research from the user’s perspective by depth interview and questionnaire investigation with the SPSS software.The empirical results indicate that this system is interesting and presents certain attractions for visitors.And this system could enrich visitors’ visiting experience.Also visitors are willing to continue to use the augmented reality technology in the future work and life.This study provides theoretical and technical support for future research about AR and museum education.