The following qualitative study sought to answer three questions: (1) What are the high priority design values used by expert exhibit developers to create meaningful exhibits at children's museums? (2) How do exhibit developers prioritize these design values? (3) What are the desirable outcomes that exhibit developers seek to achieve with the guests who interact with the exhibits? These questions were answered through interviews with children's museum exhibit developers, personal observations, and artifact analysis. The data collected was organized into four cases, each representing a different children's museum and corresponding exhibit developer. The cases were then compared against each other using multiple case study analysis as described by Stake (2006). The data revealed that most of the developers designed exhibits which promoted family learning by encouraging meaningful interactions between parents and children. Other high priority design values used by exhibit developers included physical engagement, multiple entry points, simplicity, durability, multisensory engagement, staff and volunteer facilitation, safety, and immersive environments. Successful museum exhibits empowered guests and were always created using multiple design values. This thesis may be downloaded for free at http://etd.byu.edu.

This thesis investigates the development of an animatronic robot with the objective of showing how modern animatronic models created as special effects have roots in models created during the scientific and mechanical revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is noted that animatronic models that are available today have not been described in any great detail and most are covered by industrial secrecy. This project utilises technologies developed during the latter part of the 20th century and into the beginning of the 21st century to create the design of the animatronic robot. The objective of the project is to bring effective designs for animatronic robots into the public domain. The project will investigate a large variety of different mechanisms and apply them to various functioning parts of the model, with the design and method of each of these functions discussed. From this, one main part of the project, the jaw, will receive the focus of construction. Once the construction is complete this will be evaluated against what improvements and changes could be made for future iterations, with a revised design produced based on what has been learned.

The book provides a deep insight into the successful organisation, management and marketing of booths at trade shows. By giving practical examples and explanations, Solberg Søilen aims at examining previous research and exploring factors and aspects which can lead, if properly applied, to successful boothmanship. Findings were, that the book is written rather as a guidebook for inexperienced readers in the field of marketing and trade show intelligence. Whereas the exhibiting of marketing is discussed in detail, the topic of “trade show intelligence” is not covered in depth and, thus, the title is rather misleading.Overall, the book is easy to read and follow due to the provided examples, tables and graphs, which enhance the reader’s understanding.

Exposições culturais são produtos de consumo de massa na programação de entretenimento das cidades. No Brasil das últimas duas décadas, essas exposições têm atraído crescentes recursos financeiros, públicos e privados. Na análise dos processos de concepção, projeto e realização de exposições narrativas é necessário considerar os papéis de seus principais autores: o curador (ou organizador) e o cenógrafo (ou arquiteto ou designer) -- no contexto do deslocamento do foco das exposições do acervo para o público, da ampliação e diversificação de temas de interesse para as mostras e de sua transformação em atividade transdisciplinar. Esta dissertação pretende contribuir para os estudos das exposições culturais brasileiras, enquanto instrumento de informação, educação e entretenimento. Traz um histórico da atividade no mundo e no Brasil, e apresenta um panorama do cenário nacional contemporâneo. Aborda os elementos constitutivos da linguagem narrativa inerente às exposições e faz a análise da mostra Rio São Francisco navegado por Ronaldo Fraga, reconhecendo-a como exemplo significativo desta manifestação cultural. / Cultural exhibitions are mass consumption products in cities entertainment program. In the last two decades, such exhibitions in Brazil have attracted na increasing flow of financial resources, public as well as private. To analyze processes of conception, project, and execution of narrative exhibitions, one needs to consider the roles of its main players -- the curator (or organizer) and the scenographer (or architect, or designer) -- in the context of the relocation of the exhibit\'s focus from the collection to the public, of broadening and diversification of themes of interest for the exhibit, and of their transformation in a interdisciplinar activity. This thesis intends to contribute to the study of Brazilian cultural exhibits as information, education and entertainment tools. It reviews the history of exhibits in the world and in Brazil, and presents a overview of the contemporary national scenario. Furthermore, it approaches the constitutive elements of the narrative language inherent to exhibits, and analyses the exposition Rio São Francisco navegado por Ronaldo Fraga (Ronaldo Fraga Navigates the San Francisco River), recognizing it as a distinguished example of such cultural events.

Computer-based multimedia offer an alternative means of providing instruction to learners in two primary, yet disparate, ways. Multimedia can be used to convey information to learners, or alternatively, learners can make use of multimedia to impart information. One example of the use of multimedia technologies at the University of South Florida is an interactive computer kiosk installed in the Anthropology Exhibit Gallery. The development of the educational program featured on the kiosk's touchscreen computer is the subject of this paper. The purpose of the kiosk's program was twofold: 1) to introduce the field of anthropology to university students and the general public who visit the Anthropology Exhibit Gallery; and 2) to incorporate training in the creation of multimedia materials into two departmental project-based courses, Museum Methods and Visual Anthropology. Designing effective educational programs that take advantage of multimedia capabilities without losing focus on the user's needs or on the content being presented is a challenging endeavor. In this paper, I present the process of designing an interactive multimedia program, and discuss the critical issues of audience, hardware and software, programming tools and other technical and design considerations. The development of the program, furthermore, must be understood within the broader context of several areas, including anthropology and museums, the role of education in museums, and exhibitions as a form of media and communication. Finally, a summary of the project is presented, including a discussion of the problems and successes encountered and suggested areas for further development.

Exposições culturais são produtos de consumo de massa na programação de entretenimento das cidades. No Brasil das últimas duas décadas, essas exposições têm atraído crescentes recursos financeiros, públicos e privados. Na análise dos processos de concepção, projeto e realização de exposições narrativas é necessário considerar os papéis de seus principais autores: o curador (ou organizador) e o cenógrafo (ou arquiteto ou designer) -- no contexto do deslocamento do foco das exposições do acervo para o público, da ampliação e diversificação de temas de interesse para as mostras e de sua transformação em atividade transdisciplinar. Esta dissertação pretende contribuir para os estudos das exposições culturais brasileiras, enquanto instrumento de informação, educação e entretenimento. Traz um histórico da atividade no mundo e no Brasil, e apresenta um panorama do cenário nacional contemporâneo. Aborda os elementos constitutivos da linguagem narrativa inerente às exposições e faz a análise da mostra Rio São Francisco navegado por Ronaldo Fraga, reconhecendo-a como exemplo significativo desta manifestação cultural. / Cultural exhibitions are mass consumption products in cities entertainment program. In the last two decades, such exhibitions in Brazil have attracted na increasing flow of financial resources, public as well as private. To analyze processes of conception, project, and execution of narrative exhibitions, one needs to consider the roles of its main players -- the curator (or organizer) and the scenographer (or architect, or designer) -- in the context of the relocation of the exhibit\'s focus from the collection to the public, of broadening and diversification of themes of interest for the exhibit, and of their transformation in a interdisciplinar activity. This thesis intends to contribute to the study of Brazilian cultural exhibits as information, education and entertainment tools. It reviews the history of exhibits in the world and in Brazil, and presents a overview of the contemporary national scenario. Furthermore, it approaches the constitutive elements of the narrative language inherent to exhibits, and analyses the exposition Rio São Francisco navegado por Ronaldo Fraga (Ronaldo Fraga Navigates the San Francisco River), recognizing it as a distinguished example of such cultural events.

<p>    </p> <p>The first article presents a study that measured exhibit visitors' reported attitudes as measured by an early iteration of the attitudinal learning inventory (ALI) (Watson et al., 2018). The study, which was conducted at the Indiana State Fair and measured visitors’ self-reported attitude changes after visiting an exhibit about hellbender salamanders, found that 73% of survey respondents claimed they would change their behavior and 70% claimed they would tell others what they learned by visiting the exhibit. The second article presents a study that measured visitors' time spent at the exhibit to calculate holding power. Holding power was calculated by dividing the amount of time spent at the exhibit by the minimum amount of time it takes to read the text and interact with the exhibit. The holding power for the <em>What's Bugging Belva? </em>exhibit was favorable at .67 and is compared with exhibits with holding powers of .47 (Boisvert et al, 1995) and .69 (Peart, 1984). The third study gathered visitor data using the validated ALI and analyzed the data using the FREQ procedure (SAS 9.4). The study was conducted at the Indiana State Fair and Purdue Springfest and measured visitors’ responses to an exhibit about animal welfare. At both events, visitors had positive perceptions in the categories of cognitive and general learning, affective learning, behavioral learning, and social learning.  </p>

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The Children's Home Society of Florida, often referred to as "Florida's Greatest Charity", is the state's oldest non profit welfare agency. Founded in 1902, the society was instrumental in creating and reforming child welfare laws as well as helping countless children in the state of Florida find loving homes. This paper focuses on the archival processing of the Children's Home Society of Florida Collection papers and the creation of a subsequent web exhibit. The role of archivist and public historian is examined to see how each profession works toward a common goal.

This thesis investigates the development of an animatronic robot with the objective of showing how modern animatronic models created as special effects have roots in models created during the scientific and mechanical revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is noted that animatronic models that are available today have not been described in any great detail and most are covered by industrial secrecy. This project utilises technologies developed during the latter part of the 20th century and into the beginning of the 21st century to create the design of the animatronic robot. The objective of the project is to bring effective designs for animatronic robots into the public domain. The project will investigate a large variety of different mechanisms and apply them to various functioning parts of the model, with the design and method of each of these functions discussed. From this, one main part of the project, the jaw, will receive the focus of construction. Once the construction is complete this will be evaluated against what improvements and changes could be made for future iterations, with a revised design produced based on what has been learned.