Most visitors arrive at museums and navigate their way through the galleries as part of a
group, a constellation requiring them to oscillate their attention between their companions …

We address the challenges facing designers of interactive technologies for public
knowledge institutions such as museums, libraries and science centres. We argue that …

Independent movie theaters (IMTs) are a part of the cultural infrastructure that offers shared
spaces for patron communities to access, share, and engage with cultural artifacts. In light of …

Emerging location-aware mobile technologies are being applied successfully in cultural
environments. Different technologies, such as RFID, WiFi, and so on, are being applied to …

Visitors often tend to visit museums in groups, mainly with family or friends, yet most of the
today mobile museum guides focus on supporting the individual visitor. The technology …

The integration of ubiquitous mobile computing resources into physical spaces can
potentially affect the development, maintenance, and transformation of communities and …

More than five years have passed since the final release of the long-desired OASIS standard
of a process language for Web Services orchestration, the Web Services Business Process …

In this paper, we explore museum visitor learning through the examination of the
engagement in narrative-making practices of school children while visiting a natural history …

Studies of interactive systems in museums have raised important design considerations, but
so far have failed to address sufficiently the particularities of family interaction and co …

The tradition of heritage interpretation is moving away from purely conservational and
educational goals to an entertainment-and experience-oriented interpretative provision …