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The project idea is to create a voice assistance, with the identity of an artist. In our case, we create the demo of famous Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler. That is to say, this voice assistance is not Siri, not Alexa. Instead, it is the digitalized image of Ferdinand Holder, who can answer and only answer you questions about the artist.

You can directly interact with the program by talking, as what you did normally in your daily life. You can ask it all kinds of question about Ferdinand Holder, eg:

  • When did you start painting?
  • Can you show me some of your paintings?
  • Where can I find the exhibition about your artworks?

By talking to the digital image of the artist directly, we aim to bring the art closer to normal people's daily life, in a direct, intuitive and interesting way.

As you know, in the museum, audiences need to keep quiet, which is not so friendly to children. Also, for people with special needs, like the visually dispaired, and people without professional knowledge about the art, it is not easy for them to enjoy the visit to a museum. To make the art accessible to more people, a voice assistance can help with solving those barriers.

If you asked the difference between our product with Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, there are two major points:

  1. The user can interact with the artist in a direct way: talking to each other. In other applications, the communication happened by Alexa or Siri to deliver the message as the 3rd party channel. In our case, users can have immersive and better user experience. They will feel like that they are talking to an artist friend, not an application.
  1. The other difference is the answers to the questions is preset. The essence of how Alexa or Siri works is they search the question asked by users online and read the returned search results out. In that case, we cannot make sure the answer is correct and suitable. However, in our case, all the answers are coming from the reliable data sets of museum directly, and have been verified and proofread by the experts in that field. Thus, we can proudly say, the answers from us are reliable and correct. People can use it as the tool to educate Children or as visiting assistance in the exhibition.
  • List and link your actual and ideal data sources.
  • Kunsthaus Zürich

⭐️ List of all Exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich

  • SIK-ISEA

⭐️ Artist data from the SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland

  • Swiss National Museum

⭐️ Representative sample from the Paintings & Sculptures Collection (images and metadata)

  • Wikimedia Switzerland
  • Angelica
  • T-J
  • Dominik
  • Lorenz
  • Barbara
  • Anlin
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  • Last modified: 2018/10/27 15:06
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