YUSUKE ANDO, HIROAKI UGAI, SHIGENORI KAWANO, KOJI HIROSE, DAISUKE NAKATANI, HIROMI KUROSU 5 & HIROAKI KARASAWA Mizunami Fossil Museum, 1-47, Yamanouchi, Akeyo-cho, Mizunami, Gifu, 509-6132, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] Goshoura Cretaceous Museum, 4310-5, Goshoura, Goshoura-machi, Amakusa, Kumamoto, 866-0313, Japan The Shimane Nature Museum of Mt. Sanbe, 1121-8, Tane, Sanbe-cho, O...

This thesis investigates how museum companions organise their conduct regarding their engagement with the exhibition and their social interaction with each other in the course of a visit. The main objectives of the thesis are the empirical investigation of social conduct in casual group museum visits and the exploration and understanding of social conduct in real-time distributed museum visits ...

The applied CDi technology has attracted many visitors since the very day the Museum was inaugurated in 1991. It was discovered that a very large segment of the public that initially visited the Museum during the first stage, came specifically for the application, and not its content. They were engineers who wanted to see, firsthand, in their own country, the actual application of a technology ...

Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum’s collection but cannot express the relations between heritage objects and related concepts found in contemporary museum exhibitions. A modern museum exhibition, rather than providing a taxonomic classification of herit...

The paper presents an integrated environment which enables museum personnel to catalogue and at the same time publish online museum exhibits. The system is based on international standards and is highly customisable to cater the needs of a variety of museum types. Moreover, the underlying database allows storing for the same exhibit documentations for different audiences and in multiple languag...

Several IS studies have shown that well-designed websites positively influence users, capturing visitor attention and encouraging return behaviors. However, little attention has been paid to non commercial and cultural websites such as museum websites. This study draws on human-computer interaction literature and sociology of culture to determine the influence of website design on museum visito...

In this paper, we describe the application of the novel SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) algorithm [1] for the recognition of objects of art. For this purpose, we developed a prototype of a mobile interactive museum guide consisting of a tablet PC that features a touchscreen and a webcam. This guide recognises objects in museums based on images taken by the visitor. Using different image sets ...

If we consider most museums applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. Adaptive support, by which an application provides different information taking into account the users’ interactions, can give useful assistance. In particular, we focus our attention on how...

1 Species 2000, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, 2333 CR, Th e Netherlands 2 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK; and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 3 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, USA (address for correspondence: Botany Department, Th e Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chi...

The museum provides the perfect setting for the convergence of culture, reflection, personal connections, and communication, and many museums supplement these visitor experiences through the use of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems. While there has been past HCI research on various combinations of these four areas, the overall goal of this study is to explore the emotional links museum v...