The use of virtual reality on the Web offers exciting opportunities in several application fields (e.g. cultural heritage, elearning, e-commerce). Nevertheless, the adoption of such technology is not as widespread as one would expect. The main reasons can be found both in the difficulties for the development of virtual environments, which requires a collection of advanced skills and a variety o...

This article explores gender in contemporary museum exhibitions, with a focus on fashion exhibitions. It reveals how the concepts of and are embodied through an analysis aiming to discuss issues pertinent exhibitions explore implications for development. To achieve study purpose, it begins introduction relationship between further discusses its representation museums. The role that museums play...

This work addresses how the history of Portuguese colonial war and its mnemonic productions are (non)represented in Armed Forces museums (Army, Air Force, Navy). Through an analysis textual visual contents exhibitions, activity reports, institutional communication texts; site visits; interviews with museums’ staff, I seek to identify examine contexts creation these spaces production exhibitions...

In order to explore global biennials of contemporary art, this study provides a geospatial analysis eleven examine where artists are drawn from in these international exhibitions. The project aims cut across broad scope held multiple regions how circulating the world, they showing and, most importantly, defining art era globalization. By mapping series around globe over several iterations 2010s...

For development of more convenient and useful applications, context-awareness has long been studied. This paper introduces an Android app that detects the current location, moving status, and watching status of the visitor. Our app investigates accelerometer values in order to determine moving status. With the accelerometer and orientation values our app determines the current location and watc...

In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the crowd speed using WiFi devices, and without relying on people to carry any device (passively). Our approach not only enables speed estimation in the region where WiFi links are, but also in the adjacent possibly WiFi-free regions where there may be no WiFi signal available. More specifically, we use a pair of WiFi links in one region, w...

The term ‘learning organisation’ is now a common feature of museum management discourse and, by implication, raises the issue of how a museum itself learns about approaches to ‘learning’. As ‘learning in museums’ becomes a major focus for many museums, clearly formulated and institutionally supported ideas about ‘learning’ should be an essential part of our role in interpreting natural and cult...