WHYRE? is a hands-free, sensory augmented, wearable computer designed to turn museums and archaeological sites into communicating machines. It offers a unified interface to multiple format contents, including interactive 3D, sensors driven QTVRs, and streamed animations. It is based on an IA32 mobile platform with a 3D graphics accelerator. Its operating system is Windows XP Embedded. WHYRE is being demonstrated in two primary italian Museums. This paper reviews WHYRE requirements and features, and summarizes its evaluation process.
Citation:
Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Raviprakash Nagaraj, Giuseppe Mincolelli, Giuseppe Raffa, Luca Roffia, Fabio Sforza, "WHYRE: A Context-Aware Wearable Computer for Museums and Archaeological Sites," iswc, pp.174-175, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04), 2004