Supporting cultural emotional browsing for museums: The versoverdi APP

Among the infinite options that are only limited by one´s creativity, many different applications are flourishing in the context of cultural heritage. In fact, while cultural heritage is often hard to understand or even only to reach, technology is today providing all with a powerful access key to many of its very different instances. Such key can be based on traditional means of communication and explanation (e.g., audio guides), or also ambitiously exploit novel ways of representation and visualization (e.g., augmented reality renderings). Our contribution in this area is that of designing and implementing a mobile app that supports the navigation of Giuseppe Verdi-related cultural sites. Unlike any other app, ours proposes an innovative human-computer interaction scheme that supports mood-based browsing of cultural information across multiple museums at once. In practice, our app is capable of determining a user´s mood and, based on such information, of providing visit suggestions as well as accessibility to content that matches the given mood state.