WINNERS 2015

Navigation guide system (mobile application) for the ODESSA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. The task for this application is solving several museum problems . ( http://www.msio.com.ua/ ) The purpose of the product is to solve a number of problems: 1. Develop a navigation system for a museum that would allow visitors to comfortably navigate through exposure and access to all related information. 2. Involving a younger audience, systematize and organize data. Provide feedback from visitors and keep them informed of events, updates and new exhibition shows. 3. Solve the problem with the guides. Tour guide can’t always be available in the museum throughout the working day. If the museum is visited by a group wishing to tour, they had to call a tour guide and wait for his arrival. If visitors are foreigners, tour should be carried out in English or other languages. In fact tour guide does not speak on all the required languages. One of the ways to solve this problem was issuance for rent to visitors audio cassette players. Of course that in 2014 the decision was quite archaic, and not convenient for a number of reasons: a) Not all visitors know how to use the audio cassette player b) The cassette holds a limited amount of information c) There are not enough audio players for large groups d) The visitor doesn’t know to what hall relates a particular part of the audio material The solution was to develop a mobile application that will be able to cope with the tasks and solve all these problems simultaneously. By grouping the functionality and rejecting all the excess, was divided into four main points: 1. Interactive plan of the museum 2. List of active exhibitions 3. The museum's collection 4. Authors All sections are interconnected by the logical chain - from each menu item you can get in any other. The logic of the application looks as follows: the visitor comes to the museum and at the entrance via QR code installs the application on the smartphone to start using the application. Also, the application can be pre-installed by visiting the official website of the museum. The app intended make a visit to the museum as easy as possible and, in fact, is a pocket tour guide. After visiting the museum, the application stays on the visitor’s device, and the user will receive notifications of new exhibitions, expositions and events updates. This concept has number of advantages. Besides the application solves all assigned tasks, it also has a flexible structure that allows adding new sections and functional update, expand the library of data and so on. Splash screen During the installation and starting the of application, splash screen displays artworks that are in museum collections and archives. Menu The menu consists of four items: Plan of Museum — Interactive Museum’s Plan Exhibition —List of Active Exhibitions Collection —Collection of the Museum Authors —List of Authors The plan of the museum The screen shows the plan of the first and second floors of the museum and the legend. The legend contains the notation "Stairway", "You are here", "WC" and "Exposure in developing." Rooms indicated by numbers and colors according to the list of exposure. The interactive plan displays current location of a visitor. Clicking on any hall opens the corresponding page in the list of exhibits. Exposition The expositions presented in list form, each item is indicated by color and corresponds with hall on the plan. Clicking on each item in the list opens it and the visitor gets access to the audio guide, detailed description of the exposition, list of authors and works. Also in each hall is QR code which user can scan and get directly to the exposition page. From the exposition page can also be accessed in the museum's collection and a list of authors. Collection The museum's collection is the preview of all artworks in the possession of the museum, contains information of the year of their creation, materials, dimensions, authors and location of the works at the museum. It is also possible to estimate each art piece, putting the appropriate score. Score defines works in the rating table, in which one can see the most popular works. From Collection section it is possible go to the page with the authors. Authors On the page with authors placed a photo of the author, his biography, information about amount of artpieces in museum and information about their location.