Memo: Bringing mummies to life? New tools to make museums more interactive

On 6 March 2014, the European Commission published a memo about the development of the CHESS App, an application for smartphones and tablets which aims to bring the past alive, at users’ fingertips, making culture and history engaging and available to everyone.

CHESS (Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions and Storytelling) is a project, co-funded by the European Commission, that aims to integrate interdisciplinary research in personalization and adaptivity, digital storytelling, interaction methodologies, and narrative-oriented mobile and mixed reality technologies, with a sound theoretical basis in museological, cognitive, and learning sciences.

European Commission: Innovation Union: Innovation Convention http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/ic2014/index_en.cfm

Website: Chessexperience http://www.chessexperience.eu/

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