Museums often suffer from so‐called ‘hypercongestion’, wherein the number of visitors exceeds the capacity of the physical space of the museum. This can potentially be detrimental to the quality of visitors’ experiences, through disturbance by the behavior and presence of other visitors. Although this situation can be mitigated by managing visitors’ flow between spaces, a detailed analysis of v...

Defining a physical or virtual space as a museum, seems to have clear implications on visitors’ behaviour and particularly learning behaviour. Past research shows that it is essential to identify different museum types and consider their similarities, differences and special features in order to be able to make valid research hypotheses. However, visitors would not always define certain types o...

Active utilization of museums has attracted attention over the years from the perspective of lifelong learning. However, museum users have various interests and degrees of knowledge. We propose a system of translating explanatory texts about museum collections into iconic expressions by linking the texts to the museum website contents. In this system, the text is selected based on the users’ pr...

We present Museum Detective, a handheld guide designed for use by school children to encourage guided learning through paired discovery of one object displayed within the museum space. Initial analysis revealed that students exhibited a higher level of focused attention and short-term and longer-term retention of information about the artifacts in the gallery. However, we propose that the Museu...

Tourism in the third millennium has become one of the most thriving economic activities around the world, and many developmental planners and policymakers refer to tourism as the main pillar for sustainable development. Tourism is considered as one of the most complicated occupations in numerous countries worldwide and as a multi-aspect activity possessing various positive effects and utilizati...

Data mining techniques can provide valuable insight to understand mobility in museums. However, the results of such techniques might not be easily understood by the museum staff. In this paper, we propose a graph-based approach to model museum exhibitions, sensor locations, and guiding tasks. We further discuss how route-based trajectory mining can be adapted to work with this graph model and w...