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Producing the Past With the Digital: Virtual Reality as Remediation in History Museum's Presentation Practice

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines contemporary museum practices in light of media and history theory, and understandings of representation. Through a content analysis of in‐depth interviews with museum and IT professionals involved in creating a virtual reality (VR) exhibition piece, we demonstrate how theoretical concepts addressing the mediated nature of ...
Ilkka Lähteenmäki, Marjaana Puurtinen
wiley   +1 more source

Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Item Reviewing in and Through Interaction: What It Takes to Problematize and Revise a Language Test Item

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study brings an interactional perspective to item reviewing (IR) as one of the critical language test construction stages by using conversation analysis. Drawing on video recordings of IR sessions in an English preparatory school at the tertiary level, it examines how EFL teachers problematize and revise syllabus‐based language test items
Hümeyra Can, Çiler Hatipoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Validity of VR Technology on the Smartphone for the Study of Wind Park Soundscapes

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
The virtual reality of the landscape environment supplies a high level of realism of the real environment, and may improve the public awareness and acceptance of wind park projects.
Tianhong YU   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Theatre to XR: Shaping Immersive Storytelling Design Education through Artistic and Analogue Insights

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract In an increasingly technology‐driven world, this study examined how communication design students can critically and creatively master advanced digital tools to craft immersive storytelling experiences, drawing upon an ‘analogue’ mindset. While immersive experiences are often associated with XR technologies, true immersion transcends the ...
Eleonora D'Ascenzi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Psychology of Museum Experiences: A Field Study of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well‐Being

open access: yesJournal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Museums are increasingly perceived as spaces where visitors' experience extends to their well‐being, functioning as potential well‐being generators. However, little is known about whether museums can foster different types of well‐being (i.e., hedonic and eudaimonic), which psychological processes are involved, and how visitors' pre‐visit ...
Marta Šveb Dragija   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knock knock, who's there? Identifying wild species‐specific fish sounds with passive acoustic localization and random forest models

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a useful non‐destructive tool for evaluating species presence, diversity and abundance. However, in marine environments, a dearth of tools and methods for identifying wild, species‐specific fish calls makes quantitative PAM assessments for specific fish species challenging.
Darienne Lancaster   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using ANN to study sound preference evaluation in urban open spaces

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2015
In soundscape research, subjective preference evaluation of a sound is crucial. Based on a series of field studies and laboratory experiments, influence of sound category and psychoacoustic parameters on sound preference evaluation is examined.
Lei Yu, Jian Kang
doaj   +1 more source

Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The welfare of non‐human animals is central to ethical discussions on animal use, with increasing attention to fish welfare across research, aquaria, aquaculture, and fisheries. This paper reviews current theoretical approaches to animal welfare and recent advances in defining and assessing fish welfare since the seminal paper by Huntingford ...
Sonia Rey Planellas   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sound augmentation for people with dementia: Soundscape evaluation based on sound labelling

open access: yesApplied Acoustics, 2023
A. Talebzadeh   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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