Personalized Cultural Heritage Experience Outside the Museum: Connecting the Museum Experience to the Outside World

Museums, as cultural heritage sites, have long been a primary showground for the exploration of new technologies. Recent new directions for research in this field, have concerned themselves with 1) expanding the on-site visit with prior and post experiences, primarily at a desktop computer at home, but not necessarily; 2) expanding the visit from a onetime experience to an experience that may repeat itself multiple times over a lifetime, including the reuse of personal information elicited from experience gained onsite (e.g. a user model) for providing personalized experience at multiple sites. The proposed third new direction for research in this field, the one which is focused on is: examining how to enhance other experiences outside the museum site, based on experiences at the museum site. By doing this one can begin to connect our cultural heritage experiences to our "daily" lives.