In this paper, it is aimed to announce the events that may direct people to museums by using mobile application virtually, and to give the information to visitors about the pieces in the museum, the result of which is expected to increase the number of the visitors. Therefore, it is provided that the museums become places interacted with visitors by means of tablets and mobile devices. The pape...

Research has indicated that although online interactive features are not used by the visitors of different web sites, such features might be appreciated by the visitors. This paper examines the use and appreciation of interactive features by visitors on Swedish newspaper web sites. Utilizing an online survey focusing on different traits and habits of newspaper web site visitors, the study prese...

This research presents the findings of contextual interviews, visitor survey and behavioural study that were carried out in Indian museums. It originates from the hypothesis that the museum exhibits are unable to express their relevance, historical significance and related knowledge to satisfy the curiosity of visitors. Our objective is to identify the cognitive needs of museum visitors and the...

Visitors to physical museums are often overwhelmed by the vast amount of information available in the space they are exploring, making it difficult to select personally interesting content. In contrast to visits to online museum collections, the selection process is complicated by the facts that (1) it takes time for people to move between exhibits; and (2) exhibitions may be arranged in a way ...

In this paper we focus on authentication and privacy aspects of an application scenario that utilizes mobile crowd sensing for the benefit of amusement park operators and their visitors. The scenario involves a mobile app that gathers visitors’ demographic details, preferences, and current location coordinates, and sends them to the park’s sever for various analyses. These analyses assist the p...

Recent developments in museum visitors' guides focus on context awareness, personalization and multimodal and multimedia information presentation to individuals and groups of visitors. However, the modern museum is becoming an "Active Museum", which is a special example of an active environment that interacts with its inhabitants. Since recent museum visitors' guides have focused more on the ap...

WSDM is an audience driven design method for web sites. By explicitly starting from the requirements of the web sites audience (the users or visitors), WSDM avoids problems caused by poor underlying design, or by a too data or organization driven view. This paper presents how the main structure of a web site can be derived from structuring the visitors of the web site into one or more so-called...

Introduction All kinds of Web sites invite visitors to provide feedback on comment boards. Typically, submitted comments are published immediately on the same page, so that new visitors can get an idea of the opinions of previous visitors. Popular multimedia items, such as videos and images, frequently get up to thousands of comments, which is too much to be read in reasonable time. I.e., visit...

In this paper, we describe Coach Mike, a virtual staff member at the Boston Museum of Science that seeks to help visitors at Robot Park, an interactive exhibit for computer programming. By tracking visitor interactions and through the use of animation, gestures, and synthesized speech, Coach Mike provides several forms of support that seek to improve the experiences of museum visitors. These in...

Healthcare spending varies widely across markets, and previous empirical studies find little evidence that higher spending translates into better health outcomes. The main innovation in this paper exploits this cross-sectional variation in hospital spending in a new way by considering patients who are exposed to healthcare systems not designed for them: patients far from home when a health emer...