IN THE SPRING OF 1916 Mrs. Charles Stoddard of the Vancouver Local Council of Women wrote to Mr. Rolston, the manager of the Vancouver Exhibition Association, concerning the fourth annual Better Baby Contest to be held in the fall. She was dissatisfied over the arrangements made for the previous year's contest and hoped that the provisions for the 1916 contest "[would] prove favourable to our c...

This paper aims to provide design on augmented reality (AR) based smart exhibition system to encourage user participation. If the conventional way to observe exhibition was merely on visual of the products at hand, the smart exhibition that uses augmented reality will enable users to get in-depth information not only via text, image, and video, but also through 3D virtual object in real-time ba...

Between 1821 and 1824 Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) attempted to capture on canvas the faces of various 'monomanias', including a portrait of a 'man with the " monomania " of child kidnapping'(1822-3) which was recently exhibited in London as part of the Spectacular Bodies exhibition (Hayward Gallery, 2000). The exhibition traced, inter alia, the development of the aestheticisation of insanity...

This article analyzes the construction of visual narrative expressed in exhibition Contemporary North American Painting 1941. During II World War, U.S. government recovered initiative to build a strong tight with Latin countries by relaunching Good Neighbor Policy. Cultural diplomacy was an important branch this policy. With purpose winning friends continent, created Office Inter-American Affai...

In this paper, we introduce a geographic information system using camera phone equipped with GPS and its exhibitions. We have proposed a new kind of interface to see lost of pictures which have location information, and in the exhibition, we projected our system onto a shopping street in Japan and held it as a photography exhibition. We studied 700 pictures sent for the exhibition and three pec...

This article explores ideas about tuberculosis in early 20th-century Montreal by looking at one particular event: The Montreal Tuberculosis Exhibition of 1908. An analysis of the layout and design of this exhibition reveals that objects were manipulated to convey specific messages. Domestic spaces were showcased as being particularly troublesome. The exhibition suggested that the home was a pot...

This paper describes the design and development of a Virtual Archival Exhibition System (VAES) that facilitates the authoring of web-based virtual exhibitions that can be tailored to serve the needs of various user groups. VAES is a joint collaborative project between the National Archive of Singapore (NAS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Based on an XML-based metadata da...

The 2001 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Mobile Robot Exhibition provided a forum for robots to operate outside a competitive arena. With a wide variety in behavior and form, the robots in the exhibition created a sense of the broad range of function in the robotic community. As one of the only events with no scoring or judges, the exhibition takes on a very different fe...

By combining the capabilities of latest computers, communication and multimedia technologies, web-based multimedia systems pro vide an exciting means and communication channel for information access and sharing throughout the world. These systems have immense potential in public education, stimulating the learning process by exploring and doing, and enabling children to go on trips around the w...