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Digital Storytelling in a Museum Application Using the Web of Things

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2020)

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The traditional notion of museum has changed. Museums’ mute character is transformed into storytellers that communicate experience to their audience. Innovative technologies enhance the interactivity of storytelling and enable the audience to experience learning and entertainment. In this paper, we present WoTEdu, an interactive storytelling project based on the Web of Things (WoT) paradigm. WoTEdu enhances the audience edutainment experience through interaction with museum artefacts.

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    Mozilla webthing platform - https://iot.mozilla.org/docs/, Mozilla WoT API - https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/.

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    Arduino - https://www.arduino.cc/.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the valuable contribution of Francesco Calcagno and Gabriele Taccioli to the development of the WoT prototype.

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    Mortaza Alinam, Luca Ciotoli, Frosina Koceva & Ilaria Torre

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Alinam, M., Ciotoli, L., Koceva, F., Torre, I. (2020). Digital Storytelling in a Museum Application Using the Web of Things. In: Bosser, AG., Millard, D.E., Hargood, C. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_6

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