24 de mayo 2007
CV
Doctora en “Outdoor Recreation and International Tourism” por la Universidad estadounidense, PURDUE UNIVERSITY (1999). Su tesis titulada “A Leisure Involvement Model for the Study of Historic Site-Based Participation” es un estudio centrado en la aplicación de modelos psicosociales en el campo del patrimonio cultural y el medio ambiente.
En la actualidad es directora del centro de investigación cooperativa en turismo, CICtourGUNE. Así mismo es profesora de la Universidad de Deusto y su ámbito de investigación se centra en ciencias del turismo, la cultura y el impacto de las tecnologías.
En la actualidad trabaja directamente con instituciones y agencias de desarrollo locales además de colaborar en proyectos de investigación otorgados por instituciones europeas y estatales.
En su trayectoria profesional ha colaborado con organismos como la Canadian Tourism Commission (Canada); U.S.D.A. Forest Services (Departamento Federal de Agricultura de EEUU: Servicios Forestales); Gobierno Vasco y Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. Ha publicado en revistas científicas internacionales y ha presentado comunicaciones en conferencias internacionales.
Abstract
AMICO: Una Ayuda móvil e interactiva para Exposiciones en los Museos.
The implementation of Technologies in the cultural field has completely changed the processes of producing, distributing, communicating and consuming culture, among others. The implementation of mobile devices that display multimedia customized information provide new opportunities for museums to enhance visitors´ experience.
AMICo has been designed as a prototype to be used in an exhibition room for visitors who were equipped with wirelessly connected handheld devices. It was implemented on an exhibition showing a set of architectural scale models from the Spanish architect Refael Moneo hold in the Kutxaespacio del Arte – Sala Kubo exhibition centre of the Kutxa Foundation in Donostia-San Sebastian during September and October 2005. The AMICo prototype presented multimedia additional customized information to visitors when they approach some specific scale models of the artworks.
The AMICo prototype was based on the use of a wireless communication system combined with position tracking. The visitors carried a handheld device (OQO)as they walk through the exhibition. Some wireless access points detected the position of the visitors and sent the exact information to a central server, so that it could display the appropriate multimedia information on the devices. All the information was stored in a relational database, whose final structure was compiled from the requirements and the proposed schema from the content generators.
During the visit, the system tracked the behaviour of the visitors and recorded their visits to the contents, as well as the time spent on each of them. Once the visitor decided to finish the visit, the own device displayed a questionnaire asking for their impressions and opinions on the experience. These responses were used, combined with the results from some focus groups with specialized people, to evaluate the experience as a whole to better identify the state of the implementation of this kind of mobile devices with additional multimedia content.