The Design of Android-Based Application for Museum Guide Information System using Beacon Technology

Absari, Dhiani Tresna and Prasetyo, Daniel Hary (2019) The Design of Android-Based Application for Museum Guide Information System using Beacon Technology. In: InCITE 2019 (International Conference on Informatics, Technology and Engineering), 22-23 August 2019, Kuta, Bali. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Surabaya is the second largest city in Indonesia after state capital of Indonesia DKI Jakarta. Surabaya as the capital city of east java province is also known as city of heroes to recalling many heroic events during national revolution of Indonesia. In order to memorize many monumental and historical event, Surabaya’s government has built several museums. Museum Surabaya in one of museum in Surabaya that has historical objects collection of Surabaya’s development. This museum is inaugurated by Tri Risma Harini, as Mayor of Surabaya, in May 2015. So far, Museum Surabaya has many visitors. But unfortunately, they just came to look around the object of the museum while taking pictures of themselves without being interested more to discover stories behind the objects. Management of the museum has only prepared some boards of information for every object being displayed that not interested enough for the visitors to read. Besides, the differences time arrival of the visitors caused the management difficulties in providing official museum guide to depict stories behind every historical object to the visitors. This has become a common problem for many museums. Regard to the manner of today’s people, as they become familiar with the use of smartphone technology, the design of android based application using beacon technology can be developed as an information system that assists interactively museum visitors. Visitors have to install this application on their smartphone to get some features like pop-up information of the object being displayed when they approach those object’s area at Museum Surabaya. To attract the attention of the visitor, this pop-up information displayed in the form of text, image and also video. For future opportunities to museum management, this application makes possible for the visitor to make a reservation of their individual or group visit regard to the level of occupancy that provided by the application, on the day they will plan to visit. This information may also describe as graphical report that will be useful to museum management in order to make some managerial decisions. This application also provides information about incoming museum’s events for the visitor, so it may attract the visitor to come to the museum again.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering > Department of Information System
Depositing User: Daniel Hary Prasetyo (61143)
Date Deposited: 22 Jul 2021 13:17
Last Modified: 22 Jul 2021 13:17
URI: http://repository.ubaya.ac.id/id/eprint/39837

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