Interactive and Hypermedia in Museums
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This volume is both the record of a conference and the first monographic publication devoted to interactive and hypermedia in museums. It is a great pleasure to be writing the introduction to a book of essays which contains so many important papers and which is addressed both to museum professionals interested in applying the technology and to interactive media developers interested in serving museum requirements. For several years I have looked forward to a meeting that could advance the state of the art by critically assessing current applications of interactive multimedia in museums, analyzing museum requirements and exploring technology issues. In this volume, and the conference whose Proceedings it represents, we have just such a critical perspective.
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تاریخ انتشار 1991