1 Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, M...

Museum visitors can exploit the fast technological evolution of recent mobile devices in order to receive interactive support while freely moving about in a museum, thus enriching their experience. In our work we provide users with multimedia location-dependent information. We detect automatically users’ position by interacting with ad-hoc infrared beacons installed at the entrance of each Muse...

* Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark † Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, N-0318 Oslo, Norway ‡ Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, 6102 Perth, Australia § Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, N-7491 Trondheim, Nor...

Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, West 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA (RSV) Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, NHB 390, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA (KMH) Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and J. F. Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA (...

Weile Wang Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA E-mail: [email protected] Bruce T. Anderson Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA E-mail: [email protected] Nathan Phillips Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA E-mail: [email protected] Robert K. Kaufmann Department of Geography and Environment, Boston Univer...

In this paper we outline challenges for user modeling and personalization with spatial information. To illustrate those challenges we use a use case with a real-time routing system that implements a mobile museum guide for providing personalized tours tailored to the user position inside the museum and her interests. In this scenario we combine on the one hand (1) interactive discovery of user’...

ULF S. JOHANSSON,* PER G. P. ERICSON, JON FJELDS A & MARTIN IRESTEDT Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm 10405, Sweden Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm 10405, ...

In an one year lasting project at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven a digital learning game for the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven was developed. It is targeted to school pupils in the age between 10 and 14 and should explain the importance of the cog for trading activities between Hanse cities in the 14th century. More detailed learning objectives were defined through a ...

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 2 Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention, Division of Environmental Health, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY. 3 Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 4 Center for Environmental Health and Technology, Brown University, Provi...