Art museum attendance is rising steadily, unchallenged by online alternatives. However, the psychological value of the real museum experience remains unclear because the experience of art in the museum and other contexts has not been compared. Here we examined the appreciation and memory of an art exhibition when viewed in a museum or as a computer simulated version in the laboratory. In line w...

Recent developments in museum visitors' guides focus on context awareness, personalization and multimodal and multimedia information presentation to individuals and groups of visitors. However, the modern museum is becoming an "Active Museum", which is a special example of an active environment that interacts with its inhabitants. Since recent museum visitors' guides have focused more on the ap...

In Western literature, there is evidence that museum explainers offer significant potential for enhancing visitors' learning through influencing their knowledge, content, action, behaviour and attitudes. However, little research has focused on the role of explainers in other cultural contexts. This study explored interactions between visitors and museum explainers within the setting of Thailand...

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...

The 21st century will see the emergence of a universal knowledge base accessible to the information privileged of the first world. Its elements will include full text of the world's libraries, text and image of its contemporary broadcast media products and large quantities of text and image from its archives and museums. What is not now clear is how archives and museums can best respond to this...

nahj al-blaghe is the most valuable and influent book for muslims after the holy quran. this book is effective and meaningful for anyone as a muslim. this moral treasure has also had great effects on literary men. the present article investigatesbustan by saadi and studies and presents the images which saadi has extracted from nahj al-blaghe, ghorar al-hekamand doarar al-hekam. comprehending th...

social stratification, formation of various classes and appearance of various layers in the society is a fact resulting from social conditions of public life and a wide variety of material, economic and subsistence factors as well as political situation, religious beliefs and public customs and thoughts; also ethnic divisions play an essential and undeniable role in this field. greed and coveto...

The good news is that there are at least twice as many software packages available today than there were in 1988, when the first edition of the directory was published, and that the products are, on the whole, considerably improved. The bad news is that a substantial number of vendors, and even more software products, have disappeared. In some cases these vendors or products are confirmed dead,...