Many nonprofit organizations face revenue uncertainty due to funding cuts. It is crucial for them to supplement existing revenue streams by private donations, and apply thoughtful market segmentation in their pursuit of donors. We introduce the behavioral concept of 'nudge' based on the possibility of loss aversion affecting willingness-to-donate, and investigate its implications for fundraisin...

While many researchers have qualitatively examined the affordances and constraints of AR in educational settings, only few studies exist that tried to quantify the effect of AR on learning performance. To contribute to filling this research gap, we conducted a pretest-posttest-posttest crossover field experiment with 24 participants at a mathematics exhibition to measure the effect of AR on acq...

Visiting museums and exhibitions represented in multi-user 3D environments can be an efficient way of learning about the exhibits in an interactive manner and socialising with other visitors. The rich educational information presented in the virtual environment and the presence of remote users could also be beneficial for the visitors of the physical exhibition space. In this paper we present t...

background : the aim of this study was to describe the coverage for cervical cancer screening among the visitors of a food exhibition in brussels, belgium and to describe the factors that affect their participation in the screening programs. methods : the participants aged between 25 and 64 years were recruited during a food exhibition at the brussels exhibition centre from 6 until 21 october 2...

What are ways to develop an exhibition about less documented history? A casestudy of the Rijksmuseum’s Slavery exhibition.

This paper presents the objectives and progress of the Contextaware Mobile Assistant Project (C-MAP). The C-MAP is an attempt to build a personal mobile assistant that provides visitors touring exhibitions with information based on their locations and individual interests. We have prototyped the rst version of the mobile assistant and used an open house exhibition held by our research laborator...

This work is part of a general research about three-dimensional worlds usability issues, aimed at analysing the current points of strength and weakness of immersive navigation in virtual worlds on the net and at developing new cognitive artefacts to improve the quality of these experiences. The Einstein Tower World, a system conceived in occasion of the German Expressionism exhibition held in 1...

This article aims to study the educational phenomenon of museums from the sociological analysis of museum didactics. Based on Basil Bernstein’s theory of pedagogic discourse, and, in particular, on the author’s concepts of recontextualization and recontextualizing field, the study addresses the process of production of exhibition discourse of five science museums. The study assumed exhibition d...

Selected themes presented in this article were presented at the 16th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV 2012) and the Computer Graphics, Imaging, and Visualization Conference (CGIV 2012), which gather artists, scientists, mathematicians, and other participants using digital imagery and data or involved in visual storytelling, art, and graphics. Figures show art works pres...