With the development of Web Economics, network exhibition came into being. Network and reality exhibition complement each other and develop together. New opportunities and challenges are promoting exhibition industry of Wuhan, which based on innovation, make full use of modern technology, electronic commerce and service, efforts to expand its geographical space and space. Exhibition industry of...

This article offers two innovations. First it proposes a new method, “virtual curating”, which is an extension to methods (such as content analysis and discourse analysis) deployed to interrogate written texts. In this case the texts are works of art and virtual curating elaborates and evaluates a method for using these works to understand tourism. Second it mounts a virtual exhibition in touri...

The purpose of this poster is to provide insight into the processes involved in creating an interdisciplinary online exhibition focused on a unique chapter of Canadian history from World War I. The exhibition focuses on the Colebourn Family Archive comprising digitized photographs and ephemera of Canadian soldier and veterinarian Harry Colebourn (1887–1947) who purchased a pet bear named Winnie...

Last spring -May 8, to be exact the Smithsonian Institution launched its first online exhibition, Ocean Planet, which examines the importance of oceans in our lives and which urges visitors to treat this resource with care. Based on an installation developed by the Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service, Ocean Planet is already scheduled to visit eleven cities by the year 2000. Even so, mos...

"More Than A Craze" is an online exhibition consisting of 46 photographs of New Zealand's early digital games scene, in the 1980s. The exhibition includes the work of some of New Zealand's best known documentary photographers – Ans Westra, Christopher Matthews, Robin Morrison – with images from the archives of Wellington's Evening Post and Auckland's Fairfax newspapers. These photographers capt...

1 Nagoya University Graduate School of Human Informatics E-mail: [email protected] Interactive conversational characters are increasingly being explored in online virtual environments to instruct, guide, advice and perform tasks on user’s behalf. Online museums could effectively explore such “life-like” characters as tourguides to their web-sites and virtual exhibitions. Our research de...

We propose steering behavior model to simulate virtual characters (NPC) which walk around in virtual exhibition environment and see exhibits one by one just like humans do. Steering behavior model of such environment has its significance in that it would raise the reality level of virtually recreated exhibition space such as museums or city area with points of attraction. However, currently ava...

This paper presents the digital interactive experience system of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal of China and introduces some related work. The purpose of this system is to attract users’ interests in the history and culture of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal. We provide users with virtual exhibition and virtual exploring environment which make it possible that the disappeared ancient scenes and stories re...