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Multisensory museum experience: an integrative view and future research directions
No full textIn museum and aesthetic contexts, the role of multisensory experiences in boosting visitor engagement is well-recognised. Yet, the diverse disciplinary perspectives have led to a scattered and sometimes unclear literature landscape. This article undertakes a systematic review, combining systematic literature extraction and qualitative content analysis of 331 academic sources to address the following questions: What are the theoretical underpinnings for studying multisensory museum experiences? What are the general characteristics of these experiences? How can we understand the role of technology in sensory practices within museums and related sites? By focusing on visitors' perspectives, the review aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of multisensory experiences, emphasising research framework, conceptualisation, and technology in museum practices. Furthermore, it outlines future research directions in these areas, contributing to a more unified theory and providing practical insights for exhibition design. This establishes a groundwork for nuanced future research endeavours.This research work was supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC-VUB scholarship programme)
Multisensory cues effect: do visitors react differently in a traditional versus an immersive exhibition?
No full textMultisensory cues effect: do visitors react differently in a traditional versus an immersive exhibition?
No full textImmersive Art Exhibitions: Sensory Intensity Effects on Visitor Satisfaction via Visitor Attention and Visitor Experience
No full textThe rise of multisensory-immersive technology has transformed visitor experiences in museums, yet a notable gap remains in distinguishing between immersive and traditional exhibitions. This study examines the added value of immersive exhibitions over traditional formats, specifically how sensory intensity influences experiential satisfaction. A survey of 356 participants who visited either a digital immersive exhibition rich in visual and auditory stimuli or a traditional art museum exhibition with limited sensory inputs (mainly by eyes) reveals that immersive experiences significantly enhance attention, experience, and overall satisfaction. The findings also suggest that visitor attention is a valuable extension to the experience economy model, with esthetic, entertainment, and escapism dimensions substantially contributing to satisfaction. The study highlights the importance of integrating sensory inputs to capture visitor attention, thereby extending the experience economy framework through an exploration of cause-and-effect relationships. Practical implications for museum management are discussed, offering insights for optimizing visitor engagement.This research work was supported by the CSC-VUB scholarship.
Acknowledgments
We thank the two museums for their permission in the data collection: the Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (MSK) and “Meet the Masters” in the Brussels Dynasty Building. We also acknowledge the use of ChatGPT (version 3.5, OpenAI) for language refinement, guided by the prompt: “Please revise it to improve the grammar with a scholarly tone.” The tool was employed under strict oversight by the authors to ensure the originality and integrity of the manuscript content
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Sensory cues as transformative tools in driving inclusion: insights from visitors and managerial perspectives
No full textMuseum visits are inherently multisensory, however, systematic research on leveraging sensory design to enrich experiences and tackle managerial challenges - particularly inclusion - remains scarce. This research investigates how strategically aligned sensory cues can enhance visitor engagement while providing insights for inclusive, effective museum management practices. Study 1 employed an experiment where participants viewed a painting under four conditions (no cues, music, scent, or both), each designed to ensure sensory congruence. Text mining showed that sensory cues shifted evaluations from neutral (interesting) to restorative (relaxing, fascinating) and cognitive (attentive, inspiring). Specifically, music enhanced broad appeal (fun), and scent emphasized distinctiveness (special). Despite variations, sensory experiences generally remained multidimensional. Study 2 involved semi-structured interviews with museum professionals to examine sensory cues as transformative tools for inclusion. Using the Ladder of Inclusive Innovation framework, it identified key challenges and antecedents. This research highlights critical gaps and provides insights for inclusive, sensory-based visitor engagement.Funding
This research work was supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC-VUB scholarship programme).
The authors thank all interviewees for their participation and Anqi Yu for her valuable suggestions on word frequency analysis in Study 1. This study employed ChatGPT-4 to enhance clarity and academic rigor following the completion of the initial draft. The generated revisions were subsequently reviewed to ensure accuracy and alignment with the original content. The tool was utilized with the prompt, ‘Please revise the paragraph in a scholarly and coherent tone.
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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