Acoustiguide Smartour
Reaching Out to New Audiences Beyond the Museum Walls
Smartour is Acoustiguide’s innovative and interactive application for smartphones, available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, as well as for Android based devices. This platform enables museums and heritage sites to provide visitors easy and engaging access to their art and cultural treasures, and offers a rich, inspiring experience.
Smartour has been especially designed for a generation of visitors who embrace new mobile technologies and who appreciate the ability to explore content at their leisure. Smartour can be used before, during and after their visit, showcasing the site’s collection in an exciting new way. Utilizing the application’s unique community features, a museum can create a community of engaged followers.
Art Anytime, Anywhere
Smartour can be used from any corner on the globe, allowing users to take a virtual tour of the museum at any time and from anywhere; with Smartour, an ever growing number of smartphone users can have immediate access to art collections on their own device to keep, enjoy, reuse and share.
This new approach provides cultural institutions with the tools to instantly create an interactive relationship with their visitors that extends well beyond the museum walls and on-site visit.
Key Features
Multiple Ways to Access Content
A great deal of emphasis was put on Smartour's user experience (UX). Thanks to the multiple options available on Smartour, visitors can choose to explore tour content using their preferred mode of access, with a variety of user-interface hierarchies and selections:
• Traditional numeric keypad
• Interactive map – a combination of on-site orientation and wayfinding
• Numbered exhibit list with preview images and titles
• Cover flow – allows browsing tour stops by images
• Categorized list – enables grouping of exhibits by theme
• Thumbnails matrix for quick glance and select
• Search function – allows free text search (by artist, title, location or other metadata)
• Multiple language tour selection (to be used on-site)
As any Acoustiguide product, Smartour supports multiple tours and languages. Moreover, its user interface appears in the user’s selected audio language.
GPS activation
Smartour GPS-driven capability allows users to locate themselves on automatically-activated map, navigate their way and select points-of-interest on out-door tour apps.
Multimedia
In an era when visitors tend to skim through text, audiovisual content is truly invaluable. Acoustiguide’s Smartour incorporates the latest advances in multimedia technology, incorporating audio, video, still images and slide shows in an intuitive touch-screen interface.
Additional features include:
• Zooming capabilities
• Additional information layers and descriptive text for visitors who want to learn more
• Bookmarking feature which allows the visitor to group their favorite exhibits and create their own tour or collection
Enhanced User Interaction
Museum Information
The ‘More’ feature provides additional information about the site including hours and admission, directions, special exhibition details, and upcoming events.
Social Media Integration
The fully integrated social media features allow Smartour users to share their experience with their friends on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Sites can initiate such conversations and invite others to join the discussion, or benefit from the discussions generated by users, expanding their fan and follower bases.
The didactic outlet that includes sharing and exchanging of visitors’ points of view that last well beyond the on-site experience, increases visitors’ level of interaction and engagement, giving them the notion they are part of a dialogue.
Download our Smartour Apps from our website at www.acoustiguide.com/tours-apps with QR Codes!
