| Principle researchers: | Joan C. Nordbotten, Associate Professor |
| Svein Nordbotten, Professor. |
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Department of Information Science,
University of Bergen, Bergen, NORWAY |
| Keywords: |
usage profiles, museum exhibits,
hypermedia, information dissemination
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Our principle research questions concern how exhibit visitors navigate within a multi-theme exhibit. Particularly
The table below gives a brief overview of 1027 exhibit sessions, gathered from the log data for 3 populations: school students (331), adults/tourists (374), and social science faculty and students (322). Theme sessions are defined as "exhibit sessions including at least one theme (project) page".
Note that about 35% of the exhibit sessions contained only index pages, indicating that nothing of interest was found, or Norwegian was not legible in the 1st and 2nd populations. Some of these sessions were also due to the daily control that the exhibit was operative.
| Population | Theme sessions % | Themes/session | Avg.pages/session | Avg.session time (seconds) |
| 1 | 67 | 1.1 | 6 | 45 |
| 2 | 50 | 1.6 | 7 | 55 |
| 3 | 78 | 1.4 | 8 | 79 |
In our study, sessions were short in both time spent and number of pages selected. As expected, interest in the exhibit increased in the older populations and for the faculty members whose themes were represented in the exhibit. For all groups,