JP2001273324A - Exhibition guidance system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exhibition guidance system for allowing a visitor side to quickly know the location of information he or she wants to get in an exhibition hall as soon as the visitor visits the exhibition, and for allowing an exhibition sponsor side to preliminarily obtain the information of which visitor wants to visit which corner. SOLUTION: A person who wants to visit an exhibition registers the information of his or her interested field or the like through a network 20 in a visitor data base 40 by using his or her own terminal 10. The visitor data base 40 receives the individual data, generates an individual identification ID for identifying the visitor and transmits it to the individual terminal 10. When the visitor inputs the individual identification ID from a hall terminal 30 at the time of actually visiting the exhibition hall, the preliminarily registered information is retrieved from the visitor data base 40, and the guidance of an exhibition corner where the visitor can get his or her desired information or the information of a proper instructor or the information of a visit route or the like is displayed at the hall terminal 30.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to exhibition guidance technology, and in particular, information on where to find information in an exhibition hall that the user wants can be found at the exhibition, and the exhibition organizer can understand the information. And an exhibition guide system that can obtain information on which visitors want to visit which corners in advance, and prepare materials and provide explanations tailored to each visitor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional exhibition, visitors have been searching for where desired information is displayed after actually coming to the exhibition hall.

[0003]

However, the prior art has the following problems. First, the first problem is that in a conventional exhibition, it takes time for a visitor to find where desired information is displayed after actually coming to the exhibition hall. Also, the second
The problem is that when you come to the relevant exhibition corner, you may not be able to get an accurate explanation. And
The third problem is that it is difficult for the organizer to individually determine which points should be emphasized when explaining to visitors.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide information on where to find desired information in an exhibition hall immediately after visiting the exhibition. The exhibition organizer will be able to obtain information about which visitors want to visit which corners in advance, and to provide an exhibition guide system that allows them to prepare materials tailored to each visitor and provide explanations. is there.

[0005]

The gist of the invention described in claim 1 is that a questionnaire of a field of interest is given to a prospective visitor in advance, and that a questionnaire is given to a prospective visitor in advance. Based on the questionnaire result of the field of interest,
There is provided an exhibition guide system having a step of guiding an exhibition position of a field of interest in an exhibition hall. The gist of the invention described in claim 2 is to select an appropriate presenter at the exhibition site based on the questionnaire result of the field of interest conducted in advance to the prospective visitors to the exhibition. 2. The exhibition guide system according to claim 1, further comprising the step of: Further, the gist of the invention described in claim 3 includes a step of distributing materials to the prospective visitors at the exhibition site based on the result of the questionnaire on the field of interest conducted in advance to the prospective visitors. An exhibition guide system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: In addition, the gist of the invention described in claim 4 includes a step in which a person who wants to visit an exhibition registers his / her field of interest or the like in a visitor database using his / her personal terminal via a network. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:
In the exhibition guide system according to any one of the above.
The gist of the invention described in claim 5 is that, when personal data is received, the visitor database has a step of generating a personal identification ID for identifying a visitor and transmitting the personal identification ID to the personal terminal. 5. The exhibition guide system according to claim 4, wherein Further, the gist of the invention described in claim 6 is that when a person who wants to visit the exhibition enters the personal identification ID from the venue terminal when actually entering the venue, the personal information is registered in advance from the visitor database. 6. An exhibition guide system according to claim 5, further comprising a step of retrieving said information. The gist of the invention according to claim 7 includes a step of displaying, on the hall terminal, information on guidance of an exhibition corner where information desired by a visitor can be obtained. Exist in the guidance system. The gist of the invention described in claim 8 has a step of displaying, on the hall terminal, information of an appropriate presenter at an exhibition corner where information desired by a visitor can be obtained. Exhibit information system. The gist of the invention described in claim 9 includes a step of displaying, on the venue terminal, tour route information of an exhibition corner where information desired by a visitor can be obtained. Exist in the exhibition guide system described in paragraph 1.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention provides an exhibition visitor with guidance on an exhibition location of an interest field in an exhibition hall based on a questionnaire result of a field of interest or the like conducted in advance to a prospective exhibition visitor. It is unique in that it selects an appropriate presenter and distributes materials. If you want to come to the exhibition,
Using his / her personal terminal, the user registers information such as his field of interest in the visitor database via the network. When the visitor database receives personal data,
A personal identification ID for identifying a visitor is generated and transmitted to a personal terminal. And when you actually enter the venue,
When the personal identification ID is entered from the venue terminal, the pre-registered information is searched from the visitor database, and the information on the exhibition corner and the appropriate explainer information that can obtain the information desired by the visitor, and the route information of the tour are provided. Display on terminal. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram for explaining a configuration of an exhibition guide system 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 10 is a personal terminal, 20 is a network, 30 is a venue terminal, 40 is a visitor database, and 100 is an exhibition guide system. FIG.
Referring to FIG. 1, an exhibition guide system 10 according to the present embodiment
0 includes a personal terminal 10, a venue terminal 30, a visitor database 40 for managing visitors, and a network 20 such as the Internet for interconnecting these.

[0008] The personal terminal 10 is an information processing device such as a personal computer. The personal terminal 10 accesses the visitor database 40 through the network 20,
It has a function to register personal information and information such as the field you want to visit at the exhibition.

[0009] The personal terminal 10 further has a function of displaying a personal identification ID indicating that registration of the currently input personal information has been accepted in the visitor database 40.

The venue terminal 30 is used by exhibition staff and is constituted by an information processing device such as a workstation server.

The visitor database 40 is composed of an information processing device such as a server for managing the visitor database 40, has a function of registering visitor data in response to a registration request from the network 20, and has a personal identification ID. It has a function of searching for registered data in response to a search request using as a key and returning it.

At the exhibition hall, the exhibition staff inputs the personal identification ID presented by the visitor to the hall terminal 30 and displays the visitor's personal data registered in the visitor database 40.

Further, the venue terminal 30 guides, based on the personal information, an exhibition corner where a visitor registers an interested field-related exhibit registered in the exhibition venue map, and creates an optimal tour route. It has a function to perform.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. In the following description, it is assumed that the network 20 is the Internet.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the exhibition guide system 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, a visitor to the exhibition accesses a registration homepage opened on a server that manages a visitor database 40 through his / her personal terminal 10 (step A1).

In response, the visitor database 40
Sends an information input form (step A2).

FIG. 3 shows an example of an information input form displayed on the screen of the personal terminal 10. Referring to FIG. 3, first, various information input forms as shown in FIG. 3 are displayed on the screen of personal terminal 10 (step A3).

The applicant for the exhibition can enter personal information (FIG. 3) into various information input forms displayed on the screen of the personal terminal 10.
"Name", "Company name", "Affiliation", "Address") on the screen (Step A4), and further input information of a product field and keywords desired to be seen at the exhibition (Step A5). .

In the present embodiment, the field of interest to the exhibition visitor (the "field of interest" on the screen of FIG. 3, ie, "field A", "field B", "field C",..., Clicking on any of "field F", "field G", and "field H") with a mouse makes a mark and registers it as a field of interest. The keyword on the screen of FIG. 3 is input freely from the keyboard. The information thus registered is temporarily stored in the personal terminal 10.

Next, when the exhibition visitor clicks the “Send” button on the screen of FIG. 3 with a mouse, the interest fields and keywords stored in the personal terminal 10 are transmitted to the server managing the visitor database 40 via the Internet. It is transmitted via (network 20) (step A6).

When the server that manages the visitor database 40 receives the personal information, the field of interest, and the designation information of the keyword (step A7), the server stores the personal information, the field of interest, and the information of the keyword in the visitor database 40.
(Step A8). Also, a personal identification ID for identifying a visitor is generated using personal information,
Link to the visitor database 40 (Step A)
9).

The visitor database 40 transmits the generated personal identification ID to the personal terminal 10 (step A1).
0).

The confirmation that the information has been registered in the visitor database 40 may be confirmed on a homepage (step A11), or may be notified to a visitor by e-mail or the like. .

When the visitor to the exhibition hall presents the personal identification ID issued to the visitor to the exhibition staff, the exhibition staff accesses the server managing the visitor database 40 from the venue terminal 30. Then, the personal identification ID of the visitor is input (step A12).

The server that manages the visitor database 40 that has received the personal identification ID searches for registration information from the personal identification ID (step A13).

Information such as a technical field keyword, an exhibition item, an exhibition corner position, and a presenter is registered in a server that manages the visitor database 40. Therefore, by giving keywords in the technical field, related exhibition items,
It is possible to search for an exhibition corner position, a presenter, and the like.

The retrieved information is stored in the visitor database 4
0 is transmitted to the venue terminal 30 from the server that manages 0 (step A14).

FIG. 4 is an example of a screen display of information retrieved by the venue terminal 30. Referring to FIG. 4, in the venue terminal 30, the searched guidance information (“recommended visit order A 1 → B 2 → C 1 → E 4 → G 3 → I 3 → K 2” shown in FIG. 4,
"Explanator △△△△", "Corner position of company to visit") are displayed on the screen (step A15). In addition, when an exhibition visitor clicks a “print” button on the screen of FIG. 4 with a mouse, the contents can be printed (step A15).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, a person who wants to visit an exhibition uses his / her personal terminal 10 to store information such as his / her field of interest in the visitor database 40 and the network 20. When the visitor database 40 receives the personal data, the visitor database 40 generates a personal identification ID for identifying the visitor and sends it to the personal terminal 10 so that the personal identification ID is used when actually entering the venue. When the information is input from the venue terminal 30, the pre-registered information is retrieved from the visitor database 40, and information on the exhibition corner and information on the appropriate presenter who can obtain the information desired by the visitor, information on the route of the tour, and the like are displayed on the venue terminal 30. Therefore, the following effects can be obtained. First, the first effect is that information on where to find the information that the user wants in the exhibition hall can be found immediately after coming to the exhibition. And the second
The effect of this is that the exhibition organizer can obtain in advance information about which visitors want to visit which corner,
This means that you can prepare and explain materials that are tailored to each visitor.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it is obvious that the embodiment can be appropriately modified within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. Further, the number, position, shape, and the like of the constituent members are not limited to the above-described embodiment,
The number, position, shape, and the like suitable for carrying out the present invention can be obtained. In each drawing, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals.

[0031]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, the following effects can be obtained. First, the first effect is that information on where to find the information that the user wants in the exhibition hall can be found immediately after coming to the exhibition. The second effect is that the exhibition organizer can obtain information on which visitors want to visit which corner in advance, so that they can prepare and explain materials tailored to each visitor. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram for explaining a configuration of an exhibition guide system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the exhibition guide system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an example of an input form displayed on a screen of a user terminal.

FIG. 4 is a screen display example of information searched by a venue terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Personal terminal 20 ... Network 30 ... Venue terminal 40 ... Visitor database 100 ... Exhibition guide system

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A step of conducting a questionnaire on a field of interest to a prospective visitor in advance, and a step of conducting a questionnaire on a prospective visitor based on the result of a questionnaire on the field of interest conducted in advance on the prospective visitor. An exhibition guidance system, comprising the step of providing an exhibition location guide. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of selecting an appropriate presenter in the exhibition hall based on a result of the questionnaire on the field of interest conducted in advance to the prospective exhibition visitor and presenting it to the prospective visitor. The exhibition guide system according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of distributing materials to the prospective visitors at the exhibition site based on a result of the questionnaire on the field of interest previously conducted to the prospective visitors. Or the exhibition guide system according to 2. 4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of using a personal terminal of the applicant who wishes to visit the exhibition to register his / her field of interest in the visitor database via a network. An exhibition guide system according to any one of claims 1 to 3. 5. A personal identification ID for identifying a visitor when the visitor database receives personal data.
5. The exhibition guide system according to claim 4, further comprising a step of generating and transmitting to the personal terminal. 6. A step of retrieving pre-registered information from the visitor database when the applicant who enters the exhibition enters the personal identification ID from the venue terminal when actually entering the venue. 6. The exhibition guide system according to claim 5, wherein: 7. The exhibition guide system according to claim 6, further comprising a step of displaying, on said venue terminal, guidance information of an exhibition corner where information desired by a visitor can be obtained. 8. The exhibition guide system according to claim 6, further comprising a step of displaying, on the venue terminal, information of an appropriate presenter at an exhibition corner where information desired by a visitor can be obtained. 9. The exhibition guide according to any one of claims 6 to 8, further comprising a step of displaying, on the venue terminal, tour route information of an exhibition corner from which a visitor can obtain desired information. system.