IN THE SPRING OF 1916 Mrs. Charles Stoddard of the Vancouver Local Council of Women wrote to Mr. Rolston, the manager of the Vancouver Exhibition Association, concerning the fourth annual Better Baby Contest to be held in the fall. She was dissatisfied over the arrangements made for the previous year's contest and hoped that the provisions for the 1916 contest "[would] prove favourable to our c...

This paper aims to provide design on augmented reality (AR) based smart exhibition system to encourage user participation. If the conventional way to observe exhibition was merely on visual of the products at hand, the smart exhibition that uses augmented reality will enable users to get in-depth information not only via text, image, and video, but also through 3D virtual object in real-time ba...

In this paper, we introduce a geographic information system using camera phone equipped with GPS and its exhibitions. We have proposed a new kind of interface to see lost of pictures which have location information, and in the exhibition, we projected our system onto a shopping street in Japan and held it as a photography exhibition. We studied 700 pictures sent for the exhibition and three pec...

This article explores ideas about tuberculosis in early 20th-century Montreal by looking at one particular event: The Montreal Tuberculosis Exhibition of 1908. An analysis of the layout and design of this exhibition reveals that objects were manipulated to convey specific messages. Domestic spaces were showcased as being particularly troublesome. The exhibition suggested that the home was a pot...

This paper describes the design and development of a Virtual Archival Exhibition System (VAES) that facilitates the authoring of web-based virtual exhibitions that can be tailored to serve the needs of various user groups. VAES is a joint collaborative project between the National Archive of Singapore (NAS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Based on an XML-based metadata da...

The 2001 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Mobile Robot Exhibition provided a forum for robots to operate outside a competitive arena. With a wide variety in behavior and form, the robots in the exhibition created a sense of the broad range of function in the robotic community. As one of the only events with no scoring or judges, the exhibition takes on a very different fe...

By combining the capabilities of latest computers, communication and multimedia technologies, web-based multimedia systems pro vide an exciting means and communication channel for information access and sharing throughout the world. These systems have immense potential in public education, stimulating the learning process by exploring and doing, and enabling children to go on trips around the w...

The optimization of the process of implementing virtual exhibitions on the Web represents an interesting research area devoted to simplify the design and the production of virtual exhibitions, particularly for people with a scarce technical skill and strong competencies in the area to which the exhibition is related to. In the present paper we propose a web environment facilitating the producti...

In relation with the celebration of the 80-th anniversary of Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) union of architects in 2012, the central museum of communication technologies (named after A.S. Popov) opened an exhibition “Architecture of Leningrad. 1930s-1990s”. Summing the results of this exhibition, the authors of the article give their evaluation of architecture in Petrograd-Leningrad-Saint Petersb...

This paper describes a set of two applications comprising the Virtual Art Gallery tool: the Space Picker application and the Virtual Exhibition Builder application. The purpose of this tool is to allow users to interactively create a virtual exhibition of artworks in a pre-built virtual model. We use X3D for the models and Java with Xj3D for the display and handling. The works of art are handle...