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SUMMARY:Withdrawing from Exhibits: the interactional organisation of museu
 m visits - Dirk vom Lehn\, Kings College London
DTSTART:20110609T131500Z
DTEND:20110609T141500Z
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CONTACT:Laurel D. Riek
DESCRIPTION:The visit to art exhibitions is characterised by a peculiar\, 
 easily recognisable organisation: visitors stand and silently look at work
 s of art\, then slowly turn and move\, mostly without saying a word\, from
  one exhibit to the next. This organisation of the withdrawal from an exhi
 bit allows visitors to walk through galleries without disturbing companion
 s or other people's appreciation of works of art. Visitors as well as acad
 emic researchers largely take this organisation for granted\, and attribut
 e its origin to social conventions as well as to the architecture and layo
 ut of exhibitions. This presentation offers a different perspective on the
  organisation of the navigation of museum exhibitions. By drawing on an in
 spection of video-recordings of people's navigation of art museums the ana
 lysis examines how people organise the withdrawal from an exhibit and the 
 orientation to a next without interfering or disturbing each other's appre
 ciation of exhibits. The presentation ends with a brief discussion of how 
 such detailed studies of action and interaction may be used to inform the 
 design and deployment of technologies in museums and other public settings
 . 
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room SS03
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