The NOUS-Guide is...
... a flexible visitor information and communication system for museums and exhibitions. It allows you to provide video, animated information, and interactive games for visitors through a user-friendly and intuitive touchscreen interface.
Visitor information is edited on a mobile end-user device such as the Apple iPhone or iPod touch. You may provide the information in any number of languages, compose special tours for children, or offer a sign language module for visitors with hearing impairments.
iPod touch and iPhone
The latest generation of Apple multimedia players make perfect mobile visitor information systems. They offer exceptional functionality, sensitive displays and, not least of all, outstanding video, image, and audio quality.
The NOUS Guide can be run on in-house devices or downloaded to personal iPhones and iPod touches from the iTunes App Store. In addition to information about the exhibition, an application may also contain information on the venue, such as opening hours and directions.
Location Based Information
"Experience in physical space": NOUS offers a unique RFID system, which can be installed on the NOUS Guide. Active and passive RFID technology allows you to locate visitors and trigger content that matches the exhibition content they are viewing.
Interactive Feedback
Open up feedback channels for your visitors: ask them to vote on the quality of the tour by simply completing a feedback form, or allow visitors to communicate with one another by integrating Twitter. NOUS Guide users tend to be active and interested museum visitors; you might want to offer them an address page where they can sign up for your institution's newsletter, and thereby gain new patrons.
Visitors may also directly communicate with your institution: they can subscribe to a newsletter or provide active feedback. The system is hardware independent, allowing you to move into the future well-equipped. NOUS provides support througout the process: from concept and content production to the operation of the NOUS-Guide on your premises. Depending on your choice of hardware, (e.g. iPhone, iPod Touch), the concept, and the setup of your NOUS Guide we offer you fiananzing options optimized to your needs.
The NOUS Guide records the activities of tour users, yielding a graphic analysis that shows you how they spent their time, and which content might have been of more or less interest.

