Hi Seb
There are lots of off the shelve app based solutions. Some of them like Izi Travel are completely free and it’s worth looking at these solutions rather than building your own.
The Museums and Heritage Show is this week, free to attend and will have a lot of these companies exhibiting.
Jim
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> On 17 May 2016, at 11:02, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello!
>
> There are people far more qualified to answer some of your questions, but
> to get things started, the twitter hashtag #mtogo sometimes has some gems,
> and they're collected on http://wiki.museummobile.info/ (which probably
> still has a mass of useful material from c2008/9).
>
> The American Museums and the Web conference archive contains full papers
> for each presentation (e.g.
> http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/?s=audio+guides&submit=Search)
>
> Cheers, Mia
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> On 16 May 2016 at 13:45, Sebastian Deterding <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> unlurking here from the digital creativity labs at York, Goldsmiths, and
>> Falmouth -- happy to join this group!
>>
>> We are currently framing a project around interactive audio-tours either
>> using BYOD smartphones or re-using existing audio-guides as platform so I'm
>> curious about any data or insight on audio tour infrastructure right now:
>>
>> * How widely adopted are audio guide players?
>> * How fragmented is the landscape? Are there many different
>> competitors/generations of devices or few?
>> * Do people predominantly pay once or lease devices?
>> * What are advantages and drawbacks of BYOD vs. audio guide devices?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Sebastian
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