Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 is the largest and one of the economically most important genera of calcareous tubeworms (Serpulidae, Annelida) that includes a number of notorious fouling and bioinvading species. Although the representatives of the genus are typically found in shallow waters of tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, the species composition of the genus in Australia has never been r...

This paper describes a real-time routing system that implements a mobile museum tour guide for providing personalized tours tailored to the user position inside the museum and interests. The core of this tour guide originates from the CHIP (Cultural Heritage Information Personalization) Web-based tools set for personalized access to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection. In a number of previous ...

Mixed Reality (MR) is an enabling technology for a much more interactive and intuitive experience of museum exhibits, that allows museum visitors to interact with pieces of art, without using complex virtual interaction metaphors. But MR applications for the museum domain must cope with a complex area of conflicts, which covers user acceptance, usability, copyright issues and technical feasibil...

PURPOSE To test the feasibility and reliability of a direct observation method for measuring moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in children visiting an interactive children's museum exhibition. DESIGN Direct observation was used to assess MVPA in children visiting an interactive children's museum exhibition on 2 weekend days in winter 2013. SETTING The Children's Museum of Manhat...

One of the outcomes of Moore's Law according to which the exponential growth of technical advances in computer science is pushing more and more of our computers into obsolescence is the birth of museums and exhibitions about "ancient" computer science, referring to facts that occurred no more than 50 years ago. The italian computer science virtual museum collects personalities, facts and events...

This is an invited review of the new volume by Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann (2016) entitled "The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran". University Museum Monograph 142, University of Pennsylvania Museum. 408 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 238 illus. ISBN 978-1-934536-83-4 | $69.95s | £45.50). In general, this reviewer finds the book to be of great interest to specialists and students ...

The design and development of interactlve multimedia applications is a complex and challenging process which is still evolving as the hardware, software, creative talent, production services, publishers, and target markets all evolve at the same time. Compared with other media, such as print, film, radio, or N, interactive multimedia, as a medium that combines many media and makes use of them i...