Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA b Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt, Germany Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland Naturhistorisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Postboks 1172, Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway Museum of Anthropol...

Recent developments in museum visitors' guides focus on context awareness, personalization and multimodal and multimedia information presentation to individuals and groups of visitors. However, the modern museum is becoming an "Active Museum", which is a special example of an active environment that interacts with its inhabitants. Since recent museum visitors' guides have focused more on the ap...

A Museum of Natural Heritage is quite different from a traditional Cultural Heritage museum. In fact, most part of the contents of such kind of Museum are in a natural environment unlike the traditional museum that exhibits the contents present in their building. This kind of museum, managed by Universities, is also devoted to a larger non-expert public and to University students and researcher...

In the past few years, museum visualization systems have become a hot topic that attracts many researchers’ interests. Several systems provide Web services for browsing museum collections through the Web. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent museum system for history museum artifacts, and described a study in which we enable access to China and Japan cultural heritage information from two ...

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...

When Terror Hits Home: Identity Fused Americans Who Saw Boston Bombing Victims as “Family” Provided Aid Michael D. Buhrmester, William T. Fraser, Jonathan A. Lanman, Harvey Whitehouse & William B. Swann Jr a Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, OxfordOX2 6PN, UK b Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University, 2-4 Fitzwilliam St, ...