Museum Guide 2.0 is a sophisticated automatic guide system for a museum visitor. It analyzes eye movements of the visitor and recognize to which object he/she pays an attention. When the visitor looks at a particular object for a while, Museum Guide 2.0 supplies him/her with the information about the object with several different forms, such as audio playback, displaying on a smartphone and so on.

This system is realized by combining a mobile eye tracker (We use the SMI Eye tracking Glasses) with an object recognition engine. We also implemented an algorithm for distinguishing attentive gaze from non-attentive gaze in order to detect the viewer's interests on the objects.

Eye tracking is the process of finding out a point of gaze of an animal. Owing to recent advances of eye tracking technologies, an eye tracker nowadays becomes quite compact and easy-handling. We use a mobile eye tracker for detection of the gaze position of a museum visitor.

Furthermore, an object recognition engine is also integrated in Museum Guide 2.0. While the visitor looks at an object in a museum, a computer connected to an eye tracker analyzes the scene image from a camera and recognize to which object the visitor gaze is located.

In order to investigate the efficiency and the usability of Museum Guide 2.0, we plan to conduct a user study in a real museum.
Currently, we have offered to a local museum in Kaiserslautern to cooperate with us to do that.