KEVIN DE QUEIROZ1,∗ AND MICHAEL J. DONOGHUE2 1Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0162, USA; and 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8106, USA; ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, National Museum o...

This paper discusses the design issues of playful interaction within a museum through the study of a museum guide prototype that integrates a tangible interface, audio display, and adaptive modeling. We provide an overview of our case study, summary of our user evaluation, and discuss our use of ecological approaches from the domains of acoustics, ethnography and information technology in order...

The Silver Dart Project is the first on-line multimedia encyclopedia in a Canadian museum and one of the first such applications in any museum. This award-winning multimedia database encompasses information on the 118 aircraft in the Museum's collection, including text, images, video and audio files.It is the result of a unique partnership between the Museum, cultural sector organizations and p...

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, KU Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Java, Indonesia, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philipp...

While often one goes to a museum in order to see visual artifacts, be they paintings, a shovel from the fifth century, or the inside of a space engine, it is important to remember that "meaning is constructed and interpreted in relation to text-based resources: meanings do not arise from thin-air; they are textual products" (Ravelli, 150). In museums, these "resources" include, but are not limi...

' Deparlmenl qf Herpelology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, U.S.A., ^Museum of Natural Sciences and Department of Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A., ^Department of ^oology and Museum of Vertebrate ^oology. University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A., 'Museum of ^oology and Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbo...

We are delighted to host the international workshop Re-Thinking Technology in Museums, made possible by the generous support of Convivio, the EU-sponsored Network for People-Centred Interactive Design. Over the past few years work at the Interaction Design Centre has dealt with a number of issues regarding the complex relationship between museums and galleries and interactive technologies. Wher...

Hello class, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a sudden shortage of sculptures and needs several new ones to fill its shelves. Please break into groups so that each group can build a Lego tower. The director of the museum will be here in an hour to pick up the towers and put them in the museum with your names on them. Please do the best job you can; you don’t want to be professionally embarras...

A SURVEY of the types of annelids of the families Polynoidae and Polyodontidae in the United States National Museum indicates the necessity of several nomenclatorial changes. The first part of this paper is a discussion of some of these types and a revision of some of the genera concerned. The second part lists all the types in the Museum, with changes of names and new combinations indicated. F...

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