Management of impacts to park resources and the quality of the visitor experience can be guided by the National Park Service Visitor Experience and Resource Protection (VERP) framework. This article describes a program of research to support application of this management framework to the soundscape of Muir Woods National Monument, California. Initial visitor surveys identified visitor-caused n...

In this paper, we describe an interactive environment designed and created within a museum context. “Re-Tracing the Past: Exploring objects, stories and mysteries” allowed visitors to explore and investigate artefacts housed within the museums permanent collection. One interactive installation within ‘ReTracing the Past’, the ‘Radio’, allows for the exploration of previously recorded visitor st...

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 24 BLM recreation sites in 13 states during fiscal year 2012 (FY12). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...

Multi-players dynamic game between government, parks managers and visitors is proposed in this paper to find out which party should invest money to visitor education and their optimal investment strategies. The game reveals that government should invest a lot of fund to helping the park managers to develop proper visitor education programmes when the visitor education the visitor education mark...

In this paper we present a methodology to provide visitors, in smart regions, additional cultural heritage attractions based on prior museum visits using user models and Linked Open Data. Visitor preferences and behavior are tracked via a museum mobile guide and used to create a visitor model. Semantic models and Linked Open Data support the representation of regional assets as Cultural Objects...

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 23 BLM recreation sites in 11 states during fiscal year 2009 (FY09). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 23 BLM recreation sites in 11 states during fiscal year 2008 (FY08). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...

The extent to which the presence of zoo visitors influences animal behavior, and the ways in which animal activity influences visitor interest and perception, are of great interest to zoological parks. Visitors have been variously characterized as being enriching for zoo animals, as being stressors, and generally as influencing behavior in measurable ways. Most studies have focused on primates,...

Multiple dispatching and the visitor pattern are approaches to making object-oriented programs more extensible. Both have a flavor of pattern matching, thereby moving objectoriented programming closer to functional programming. The key idea of these approaches can be crystallized as a notion of visitor which lies between functions and objects. Can this idea be developed into a new form of visit...