This thesis introduces the concept of living exhibitions: continuously evolving museum exhibitions that are cooperatively developed and evaluated by teams of museum professionals and visitor representatives. The author argues that the living exhibition design process should draw its inspiration from multiple resources, including current research on museum learning, interaction principles and te...

The paper proposes a business model for the efficiency optimization of the interaction between all actors involved in cultural heritage sector, such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). The implementation of virtual exhibitions on mobile devices is described and analyzed as a key factor for increasing the cultural heritage visibility. New perspectives on the development of virt...

The paper presents a generic framework for designing and implementing multiuser virtual exhibitions that adapt visitors’ preferences and goals and foster the emergence of communities with common interests. A user-oriented platform for designing and executing virtual exhibitions has been presented in which implicit generation and adjustment of user profile allows exhibition to dynamically adapt ...

ENGINEERING SHOW GREAT SUCCESS THOUSANDS THRONG TO RICE TO SEE THE MANY FINE EXHIBITS M SCIENTIFIC FEATURES DISPLAYED -—23 Novel Experiments and Tricks Performed to Attract the Visitor's Attention. 23 Ten thousand people found out something new about Rice Friday and Saturday when they visited the scient i re departments of the Inst i tute in accordance with the pian of the Second Bienniai Engin...

We describe an innovative system designed for museums to create, manage and present multimedia based representations of museum artefacts in virtual exhibitions both inside and outside museums. Our system creates digital surrogates through a novel stereo photogrammetry system with little user interaction. The resulting 3D objects are refined using state-of-the-art 3D modelling software configure...