An investigation into user profiling and adaptation with exhibition booth as a case study is reported. First a review of the field of exhibitions and trade fairs and a summary introduction to adaptation and profiling are given. We then introduce three criteria for the evaluation of exhibition booth: effectiveness, efficiency and affect. Effectiveness is related the amount of information collect...

Apopular attraction at the 2000 AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence was the Ninth AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition, held 30 July to 3 August 2000 in Austin, Texas. This year’s event brought six contest teams and nine exhibition teams from the United States and Canada. The Robot Contest and Exhibition brings together teams from universities and other laboratories to compete ...

A team of staff and students at the Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media came together to research the potential for interactive multimedia in museum programs to contribute to community regeneration. The project was part of the exhibition Play Up Pompey! which celebrates the centenary year of Portsmouth Football Club. The School's contribution was The Team in the Stand, a visitor-authored...

An ‘object in purgatory’ is a gift you have received and don't want, but nonetheless feel compelled to keep. My Objects in Purgatory exhibition (2011) invited visitors to contribute their uncherished gifts, and relate the stories associated with them. Their contributions were exhibited, and in return they received a handmade brooch featuring an image of another visitor’s uncherished gift. This ...

In this paper we present Robox, a mobile robot designed for operation in a mass exhibition environment and the experience we made so far with its installation at the Swiss National Exhibition expo.02. Robox is a fully autonomous mobile platform with unique multi-modal interaction capabilities and a novel approach to global localization using multiple Gaussian hypotheses. Here, we adopt an exper...

The verification of the robustness of design specifications with respect to all combinations of worst-case parameter conditions not only improves the design confidence, but it is increasingly becoming a requirement for quality assurance and documentation for norms. It is a complex task consuming significant man power and compute power and it tends to be sacrificed under time pressure in the fin...

PURPOSE To test the feasibility and reliability of a direct observation method for measuring moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in children visiting an interactive children's museum exhibition. DESIGN Direct observation was used to assess MVPA in children visiting an interactive children's museum exhibition on 2 weekend days in winter 2013. SETTING The Children's Museum of Manhat...

The Fifteenth Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition was held in conjunction with the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) July 17–20, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts. The robot competition and exhibition has a long tradition of demonstrating innovative research in robotics (Rybski et al. 2006, Smart et al. 2005, Balch and Yanco 2005). From new approaches to cano...

On the first day a paper will be given by Mr. H. J. Waring, F.R.C.S., Vice-Chancellor of London University (Senior Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital) on "Voluntary Hospitals and Paying Patients." In the afternoon, Mr. J. E. Stone, F.S.A.A. (Accountant to St. Thomas's Hospital), will read a paper on " Accountancy in Relation to Hospital Administration." In the evening the Annual Dinner will be...