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Selected AbstractsWHY ARE SOME SCIENCE MUSEUM EXHIBITS MORE INTERESTING THAN OTHERS?CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 3 2000Jay Rounds First page of article [source] Nodes and Connections: Science Museums in the Network Age,CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002Rob Semper For some it is a convenient way to market their offerings, for others it has become a fundamental cornerstone of their practice. Questions still remain about the role of the Web in the museum world and the interplay between the physical and virtual worlds. Developing a strong research agenda and fostering a shared community of practice are two necessary components if museums are to maximize the potential that the Web has to offer them. [source] Technological novelty and open-endedness: Two characteristics of interactive exhibits that contribute to the holding of visitor attention in a science museumJOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING, Issue 2 2003Cody Sandifer This study was undertaken to isolate characteristics of interactive exhibits that are particularly effective in attracting and holding the attention of visitors in a science museum. Forty-seven visitors were tracked through two adjacent exhibitions, comprising a total of 61 interactive exhibits. Four exhibit characteristics were identified and examined: technological novelty, user-centeredness, sensory stimulation, and open-endedness. Regression analyses show that two of these characteristics, technological novelty and open-endedness, help to account for the variance in average visitor holding time; these characteristics have positive correlations with the amount of time spent by visitors at exhibits. Nonsignificant results are explained in terms of mitigating environmental and exhibit-related factors. In addition, topics for future study are suggested. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 40: 121,137, 2003 [source] Reinventing the science museum: the Museum of Science and Industry in ManchesterMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2000J. Patrick Greene Constant adaptation and renewal are the hallmarks of Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry, as explained by its director, Patrick Greene. He is chairman of the European Museum Forum (organizers of the European Museum of the Year Awards) and president of the Museums Association. He was, until recently, president of ICOM's International Committee of Museums of Science and Technology (CIMUSET). His doctorate is in archaeology, based on research into medieval Norton Priory in Cheshire, the excavation of which he directed from 1971 to 1982. [source] Telerobotic systems design based on real-time CORBAJOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS (FORMERLY JOURNAL OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS), Issue 4 2005Michele Amoretti A new class of telerobotic applications is making its way into research laboratories, fine arts or science museums, and industrial installations. Virtual laboratories and remote equipment maintenance are examples of these applications, which are built exploiting distributed computing systems and Internet technologies. Distributed computing technologies provide several advantages to telerobotic applications, such as dynamic and multiuser access to remote resources and arbitrary user locations. Nonetheless, building these applications remains a substantial endeavor, especially when performance requirements must be met. The aim of this paper is to investigate how mainstream and advanced features of the CORBA object-oriented middleware can be put to work to meet the requirements of novel telerobotic applications. We show that Real-Time CORBA extensions and asynchronous method invocation of CORBA services can be relied upon to meet performance and functional requirements, thereby enabling teleoperation on local area networks. Furthermore, CORBA services for concurrency control and large-scale data distribution enable geographic-scale access for robot teleprogramming. Limitations in the currently available implementations of the CORBA standard are also discussed, along with their implications. The effectiveness and suitability for telerobotic applications of several CORBA mechanisms are tested first individually and then by means of a software framework exploiting CORBA services and ensuring component-based development, software reuse, low development cost, fully portable real-time and communication support. A comprehensive telerobotic application built based on the framework is described in the paper and evaluated on both local and wide area networks. The application includes a robot manipulator and several sensory subsystems under concurrent access by multiple competing or collaborating operators, one of which is equipped with a multimodal user interface acting as the master device. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Heritage and Scientific Culture: the intangible in science museums in FranceMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2004Michel Van Praët [source] | ||||||||||