Understanding implicit learning in museums and galleries

Augmenting Museums and Art Galleries

This paper is concerned with the application of context -aware computing to museums and art galleries. The paper reports three studies addressing this issue. The first study involved a survey of visitors to an art gallery and focused on visitor activity and information requirements. This led to the conclusion that one could define visitor types and relate these to the amount, and level of detai...

Development of Systems for Museums and Galleries

The Exhibits Interactive Tabletop Exhibits in Museums and Galleries

6 September/October 2006 Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0272-1716/06/$20.00 © 2006 IEEE J ust as online shopping is a bellwether of advanced online technologies, so do museums and galleries showcase the best in computer display and interface technology. In the first case, commerce demands that speed and reliability get priority; in the latter, technological invisibility is foremost. The...

Rethinking interactivity: design for participation in museums and galleries

There is a growing interest in museums and galleries to deploy novel technologies, such as computer exhibits, information kiosks and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in their exhibitions. Museum managers and designers hope these technologies can help to facilitate new forms of participation and interactivity and enhance people’s understanding of exhibitions. This paper puts the impact of soci...

Thinking outside the box: galleries, museums and evaluation

Museums and galleries in the UK increasingly engage with educational and social concerns; this article refers to research to evaluate two such initiatives. Evaluation of the Museum and Gallery Education Programme Phase 2, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, ends in August 2004. The research partnership to evaluate the ‘En-vision’ pilot action research programme, established by En...