Art Traffic at the Louvre (http://senseable.mit.edu/louvre/#anchorabout)

This is a research-based project that is conducted by MIT Senseable City Lab that they studied and analysis the visitor traffic and behavior in the Louvre in Paris. They used Bluetooth sensors and located them in different rooms in the Louvre. Then the sensor can detect any Bluetooth-enabled device, such as mobile phones, and by all the sensor working together, the system can track the flow and duration of stay of a person. The lab created an analysis report of the traffic of visitors inside the museum, and also a simulation in animation of the traffic of the day they recorded in the Louvre.

I found it interesting because of their way of collecting data and also how they present the result at the end with animation. It is a combination of the field of technology and art research, which is related to what we are studying in Creative Media. I consider this project as a potential reference of the second stage of my museum project, by using similar method to collect data.

Photo’s from: http://senseable.mit.edu/louvre/#anchorabout