There is a growing interest in museums and galleries to deploy novel technologies, such as computer exhibits, information kiosks and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in their exhibitions. Museum managers and designers hope these technologies can help to facilitate new forms of participation and interactivity and enhance people’s understanding of exhibitions. This paper puts the impact of soci...

This is a study integrating Second Life (SL) and the currere approach to develop a virtual curriculum demonstration. The overarching purposes of this study were to understand the perceptions, self-reflection, selfunderstanding and educational growth of graduate students in education toward teaching and learning in a virtual interdisciplinary curriculum. Data was collected in two education gradu...

Presentation of content is an important aspect of today’s virtual reality applications, especially in domains such as virtual exhibitions. The large amount and variety of exhibits in such applications raise a need for adaptation and personalization of the environment. This paper presents a content personalization framework for Virtual Exhibitions, which is based on a semantic description of con...

Sambas Regency is a local government that still follows the traditions, customs, and cultures of past until now. Traditional ceremonies such as weddings haircuts in use woven fabrics clothing complements. fabric traditional craft no less competitive with other regional products. The production currently carried out at Weaving House village Sumber Harapan, Regency, West Kalimantan. However, ther...

This paper discusses a novel metadata element set for describing cultural heritage objects and their digital representations, which is particularly useful for building virtual exhibitions. The element set is based on several international standards and current best practice in museums. Additional elements are used for describing new types of data used in virtual exhibitions and taking into acco...

background: stress is a nonspecific reaction to everything the body needs. although occupational stress exists in every occupation, it is seen with more frequency and intensity amongst those occupations related to human health. in this study, we aimed to investigate the level of occupational stress in operating room staffs working in the hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sci...

The increasing adoption of the Semantic Web vision has led to the emergence of a distributed knowledge base in the form of interconnected ontologies. In the context of cultural heritage in particular, digital museums that use Semantic Web standards and technologies, hereafter called Semantic Web museums, have been proposed. Current Semantic Web museums, however, support mostly static exhibition...