Kay Hoeksema, COLLIDE groupUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany,Institute for Computer Science and Interactive Systems

Advanced Technological Applications for Science Centres and Museums

Sofoklis Sotiriou

Research and Development Department,Ellinogermaniki Agogi

European Network of Science Museums (ECSITE)

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In what areas could research and development in science Communication be conducted?

• Validate the visitors’ experience: What is the reaction of visitors interacting with an exhibit? Which exhibits appeal to visitors in general? Which exhibits appeal to younger visitors and which to older visitors? Which exhibits achieve the communication intended? And which do not?

• New educational material should be developed that can support the teacher and the pupil when experimenting with the exhibits: How do we introduce the Internet as a helpful tool in the communication between the visitor and the exhibition? How do we combine exhibits, written educational material, a website closely connected to the exhibition and some tasks to challenge the visitors? And what is the optimal role of the pilots (‘explainers’,‘guides’,‘hosts’)?

• New types of interactivity should be developed: How do we develop a growing interactivity between the interested visitor and the exhibition? The mode of conversation would be the web page on the Internet and the cell phone. Another kind of interactivity that will gradually grow during the next five years, I think, is the use of Virtual Reality when you want to let the visitor experience science and technology.

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On-site cultural guide

archeoguide.intranet.gr

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Augmented Reality based cultural guide on-site

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Visualizing the Invisible in Science Centers and Museums

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Mobile AR system

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CONNECT EXPERIENCE

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The E/M spectrum

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The Sound Mirrors at EF

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Steps Forward

Science Centre to Go!Exhibit Models for

Schools

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Steps Forward

OpenScienceResources:Towards the development of aCommon Digital Repository

forFormal and Informal ScienceEducation

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Steps Forward

Learning@CERNConnecting ScienceCenters and ScientificResearch effectively

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Steps Forward

COSMOSConnecting ScienceCenters, Schools andRobotic Telescopes topromote AstronomyEducation

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Τhe future of education is outside of education. It

is in the everyday life. In business, in the world. In

life long learning. But the principles can beapplied inside of formal education as well. Theyrequire a change in thinking, to move towardproblem-centered, meaningful activities in theclassroom. To exploit people's interests andsubvert them to lead to natural, inspired

learningactivities.

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I think the classroom can help. It is up to schools, and to allinitiatives that can educate, including reliable Internet

sites, toensure that young people gradually acquire the correctunderstanding of scientific procedure. A most difficult task,Because even knowledge transmitted by schools is often depositedin the memory like a sequence of miraculous episodes: MadameCurie who come home one evening and discovers radioactivitythanks to a mark on a sheet of paper, ......Galileo who sees a lampswaying and suddenly discovers everything, even that the worldrotates…It is the duty of a man of learning not only to doscrupulous research but also to present his knowledgeeffectively. Scientists sometimes still feel it’s not dignified

totake an interest in popularization, although masters in the

fieldinclude Einstein and Heisenberg. But if we are to teach a nonmagical view of science, we

cannotexpect it to come from the mass media. The scientificcommunity itself must construct it bit by bit in the

collectiveawareness, starting with the young.

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