The first sight to greet visitors to the exhibition gallery of the Wellcome Institute is a triptych: in the middle is the portrait of the founder, Sir Henry Wellcome, and on either side, panels showing pictures of the Institute and Library yesterday and today What was it like then? What is it like now? How has the Institute changed and developed up to the present day? How has it succeeded in re...

This paper describes the development and demonstration of an exhibition system based on the wearable computer. With the view to its practical application at the World Exposition 2005, we focused our development efforts on achieving the physical versatility of the system, rather than remaining at the technical development stage. We attempted to verify the potential of the wearable computer for e...

J. S. Spencer, 2, ∗ N. S. Blunt, W. A. Vigor, F. D. Malone, W. M. C. Foulkes, James J. Shepherd, and A. J. W. Thom ∗ Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom D...

The thirteenth AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition was held last July, in conjunction with the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2004), in San Jose, California. The primary purpose of the Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition is to bring together researchers and students from academe and industry to showcase the latest state-of-the-art mobile robot capab...

The exhibition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will this year be held at the Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas, from December 29 through January 1, 1942. We again wish to express our appreciation for the cooperation that we have received from the exhibitors who have helped to maintain the high standards of the exhibition. Some institutions and concerns who have recently deci...

This paper presents the objectives and progress of the Contextaware Mobile Assistant Project (C-MAP). The C-MAP is an attempt to build a personal mobile assistant that provides visitors touring exhibitions with information based on their locations and individual interests. We have prototyped the rst version of the mobile assistant and used an open house exhibition held by our research laborator...

This paper describes the development of laboratory concepts in the making and curating of interactive art, in which the exhibition becomes a site for collaboration between curators, artists, and audiences. It describes Beta_space, an experimental public venue that seeks to realise the concept of the exhibition as living laboratory through the participatory qualities of interactive computer-base...