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Session 79 Use of technology to prolong the
experiences and strengthen learning"
The use of personalization inLong may you livea
theme exhibition about health and happiness
Friday 30 May 2008 1030 h 1215 h Patricia
Verheyden Manager of exhibits Technopolis the
Flemish science center, Belgium
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The use of personalization inLong may you live

• a theme exhibition about health and happiness

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Long may you live
750 m2, 38 interactive exhibits
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Personalisation
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Bracelet with unique barcode
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Activation of exhibit by scanning your barcode
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Instructions and feedback

• Through touchscreen
• No printed labels
• visitor see only text in language they choose
• adress them personally (use their name)
• easy to change texts
• esay to translate

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Registration
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How fast does a heart beat
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Another exhibit scan barcode
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Healthy bones
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Good memory
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Nice size (BMI)
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Print-out of results
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Foto van printblad (open en toe)
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Website
www.technopolis.be/longmayyoulive
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Printscreen website resultaten
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Dear Petra,This is me on my seventy second
birthday! This picture was made in the
exhibition Long may you live in
Technopolis.                                      
                                 
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Personalization technical data
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Functional components

• Actions
• What happens when a visitor arrives and performs
  an exhibit?
• Components
• Which building blocks constitute the process?
• Physical layout
• How are the components connected?
• Logical layout
• What processes are involved?
• How do they interact?
• What is the result?

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Actions
What happens when a visitor arrives and performs
an exhibit?
Multiple exhibits

• Identify each visitor
• Register first time
• Recognize on all exhibits
• Produce data
• Compare results
• Per exhibit, age category and more

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Components
Which building blocks constitute the process?

• Visitors
• Barcode
• Data
• Exhibit
• Application
• Database connection
• Server
• Services
• Database

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Physical layout
How are the components connected?
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
. . .
Exhibit 1
Printer
Server
DB
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Logical layout
What processes are involved?
Input/ output
Exhibit
Server
IO- server
Appli-cation
Appl. Server
Data-base Server
DB
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Logical layout
What processes are involved?
Input/ output
Exhibit
Server
IO- server
Appli-cation
Appl. Server
Data-base Server
MySQL
Pythonscript
Flash
XML
DB
- Visitors - Exhibit results - Info
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Logical layout
What is the result?
BarcodeInput
Exhibit
Server
DB

• Identification
• Perform exhibit
• End exhibit
• Compare results

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Exhibit I/O
Exhibit
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DB
Exhibit
Server
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Website
The story continues
Server
Appl. Server
Data-base Server
Internet Server
MySQL
DB
- Visitors - Exhibit results - Info
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Personalization advantages
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Advantages for the visitor

• choose language once
• adressed by their name
• keep track of personal results
• printout with results
• personal webpage (picture, results, indepth
  information)

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Advantages for the science center

• Statistics
• popularity of exhibits
• how many visitors interact with each exhibit
• do visitors repeat an exhibit?
• length of stay
• Texts
• easy to change
• easy to translate

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Disadavantges

• Initial investment
• Bracelet for each visitor constant cost
• Screens, barcode scanner influence design

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Exhibit statistics
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Participants

• Number of participants between 15 December 2005
  and 31 August 2007
• 321 672
• 28 of all participants printed their results
• 7 of all participants looked at their
  personal results on the website

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Other interesting statistics

• 53 of participants are female
• language choice
• 84 Dutch
• 11 French
• 5 English
• age
• 7-12 40
• 30-49 27
• 13-29 16

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Other interesting statistics

• average time spent in theme exhibition
• 61 min (all visitors)
• 76 min for age group 13-18
• 43 min for age group gt66
• average appreciation of exhibition
• 8 (families as well as schoolgroups)

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Most popular exhibit(unique visitors) Body mass
index
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Popular exhibit repeat factor

• On average visitors tried 2,3 times to see how
  supple they were.

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Some results of visitors in Flanders
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How sporty are you

• The average visitor claims to exercise 2 h 32
  min per week.
• The 3 most popular sports are
• Cycling
• Swimming
• Football

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If I were rich

• The 3 most popular items to spend lottery money
  on are
• Clothing
• Juwelry
• Housing

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What will you do after your retirement?

• The 3 most popular ways to spend time after your
  retirement are
• Travelling
• Grandchildren
• Sports

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What does hapiness mean to you?

• The 3 items that make visitors the most happy are
• A good partner
• Children
• Friendship

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Travelling theme exhibition

• After touring
• compare results in different countries
• statistics
• results

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The use of personalization inLong may you livea
theme exhibition about health and happiness
Patricia Verheyden Manager of exhibits patricia_at_te
chnopolis.be Technopolis the Flemish science
center, Belgium