Exhibition Layout and Visitor Movement in Science Museums -- A Small Grant for Exploratory Research

9911829怀恩曼与探索性研究的小额赠款，格鲁吉亚技术研究所将确定和测量空间布局的属性，影响游客的探索和接触的信息，在科学博物馆展览。 博物馆学习的本质是与空间运动相关联。 在空间序列中排列显示器的方式，同时查看不同对象的能力，空间中对象的分组，方向的变化率，一个显示器与另一个显示器之间的相对距离，所有这些都成为知识呈现的强大方面，这些方面在博物馆中比在任何其他学习环境中都更重要。 本研究将应用新的空间分析技术，对空间布局进行严格的定量描述。 然后，这些描述符将被用来了解布局如何影响展览中的游客移动模式。

9911829WINEMANWith a Small Grant for Exploratory Research, Georgia Tech Research Institute will identify and measure the properties of spatial layout that affect visitors' exploration and exposure to information in science museum exhibitions. It is the nature of museum learning that it is associated with movement in space. The ways in which displays are arranged in spatial sequences, the ability to simultaneously view different objects, the grouping of objects in space, the rate of change in directions, the relative distance between one display and another, all become powerful aspects of the presentation of knowledge that are far more important in the museum than they are in any other learning environment. This study will apply new techniques for spatial analysis to provide rigorous, quantitative descriptions of spatial layout. These descriptors will then be used to understand how layout affects visitor movement patterns in exhibitions.