In using new media as a means for providing access to cultural heritage collections, it is inevitable that museums, as content providers and facilitators, face the copyright challenge. This is especially so, since copyright, is not apparent in the Internet environment. Copyright can act as a barrier, limiting electronic access to museum content d u e to conditions placed on the use of certain m...

According to several architectural studies, modern museums are not merely places where knowledge is transmitted but also places where social relationships are shaped and take place. This is especially true in the views of scholars such as Bill Hillier, Thomas Markus, J. Peponis, and J. Hedin. Through spatial layout, the movements of museum visitors are structured and social relationships are co...

Although the history of automatic computation is quite young, the rapid development of electronic computers has awoken the interest of the historians, who fear important facts about early computing might get lost. The most visible result of the combined efforts of historians and computer veterans are computer museums which have been founded in several countries and have become quite popular. Co...

People have been gathering things into collections for a long time. The resulting collections might be informal, but when they are institutionalized and sustained over time, they are typically referred to as libraries, archives, and museums. There are good reasons why libraries, archives, and museums have evolved on separate paths, but the information age arising around new information and comm...

This paper presents a user evaluation related to the overall experience of a number of volunteers obtained by visiting two virtual museums populated with digitized Cypriot cultural heritage/art items using different virtual reality display systems. The two virtual museums used are replicas of an engraving museum and a virtual Byzantine icons museum. During the experiment visitors were able to u...

Large numbers of transients visit big cities, where they come into contact with many people at crowded areas. However, epidemiological studies have not paid much attention to the role of this subpopulation in disease spread. We evaluate the effect of transients on epidemics by extending a synthetic population model for the Washington DC metro area to include leisure and business travelers. A sy...