Media Convergence and Museum Education in the EMODEM Project

The interpretation of the museums heritage as an active social element is the basis of the most cur¬rent cultural institutions projects that envisage forms of documentation, use and dissemination of the cultural heritage increasingly dialogic (the museum community) and dynamics (mixing conversational, experiential, and participative modes). This scenario is the broad framework of the project conceived to design the EMODEM app based on the convergence of face detection, eye tracking and AR to interface the virtual and the physical space and make the museum experience more visitor-centered, interactive and personalized. This article integrates the EMODEM research already underway and updates the scientific roadmap according to the progress recently achieved in phases 3 and 4 of the project, presenting the technolog¬ical innovation that has intervened in the meantime in the project and the advancement of research, currently reached at third field usability testing.