In this paper we describe a software system for building interactive virtual environments, particularly ones for virtual reality art works. It is meant to allow teams composed of experienced programmers and non-programming designers to work together on projects. It is an object-oriented framework, built upon existing toolkits for VR, real-time graphics, and audio. A number of common application...

We regret to report the death of Mr. C. A. Morton, which took place on August 16th during a holiday in Switzerland. Charles Alexander Morton, known to many generations of students as " Peter," was born in Bristol in 1860, where his father, a surgeon in the H.E.I.C.S., lived after his retirement. He was educated at Clifton, and subsequently at St. Bartholomew's. Mr. Stanford Morton, of ophthalmo...

With the advent of information age, digital exhibition has become an inexorable trend for museum technical applications. In addition to physical exhibits, museums have also integrated copious resources of their collections with new technologies in order to create new values. Although the development of digital exhibitions in museums with virtual reality is in its initial developmental stage, th...

An augmented reality (AR)-based guidance system for use in indoor artistic-statue exhibitions is proposed to guide a visitor to find and appreciate statue artworks. For statue recognition, a skillful method of exhaustive matching of statue-image features is proposed, which “learns” each statue by capturing its images from different directions to construct a database, and recognizing each statue...

This paper examined meeting planners’ perception on Asian convention destinations and their attributes. Meeting Planners, Certified Meeting Professionals (CMP), were asked to indicate (1) how they plan to select destination by checking the attributes of a destination, (2) meeting venues and overnight accommodations. This study will contribute to the literature on the meeting and convention mana...

Museums, their missions, their civic, social responsibilities, and their modes of engagement with communities are in a constant process of transformation in response to social and economic imperatives at local, national and global levels. There is a need for museums to stay relevant and be responsive to pressing social and environmental issues such as population and sustainability, social justi...

With a general decline in people's choosing to pursue science and engineering degrees there has never been a greater need to raise the awareness of lesser known fields such as acoustics. Given this context, a large-scale public engagement project, the 'Aeolus project', was created to raise awareness of acoustics science through a major collaboration between an acclaimed artist and acoustics res...