Multimedia visitor book using mobile phone

Abstract

We introduce a new multimedia visitor book that collects the pictures from visitors using a mobile phone via Bluetooth and generates a photo-mosaic to be displayed to all visitors. The background image of the photo-mosaic is that the multimedia visitor book uses consists of a specific image of a museum, company logo, gallery or any forms of advertising strategy. In detail, visitors upload their own picture that is in a mobile phone or a picture taken when participating in an exhibition as the basis of the collective artwork in the photo-mosaic generated. The multimedia visitor book is displayed through a projection onto a large screen adding the new visitors as they upload their pictures. As opposed to the traditional visitor book which is an analog form recorded by pen and paper, our proposed multimedia visitor book uses digital technology and interactive with all visitors. Our system adapts the flow of period using digital equipment, proposed a paradigm fit into digital period and it also extend not only to visitor book but also to various services such digital book and mobile art. © ACM 2009.