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Hi, Ed:

I would love to see this exhibition. 30 minutes per exhibit!  That is  
amazing.  I tried googling it to no avail, do you have a written  
description of the exhibit components or some pics you could share?

I am looking forward to going to Toronto later this Spring to see  
Agents of Change at Ontario Science Center also.  From what I have  
heard and seen (in pictures) this incorporates similarly open ended  
experiences.

Eric Siegel
esiegel at nyscience dot org




On May 16, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Ed Sobey wrote:

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology  
> Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related  
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> Eric-
>
> The point is that people do dwell longer at transactive exhibits.  
> They spend
> longer because they can do stuff (science).
>
> Years ago when I was directing the museum in Fresno, we circulated a
> traveling exhibit of trans-active (open-ended) experiences ("Move  
> it, Build
> it, Zap it"). Lawrence Hall and the Chicago Academy of Science  
> rented the
> exhibit. Both expressed amazement at how long people spent at each  
> exhibit
> and at the high level of interactivity between people at each exhibit.
>
> Chicago invested some money to study visitors. They found that  
> visitors were
> spending on average around 30 minutes per exhibit (the record they  
> reported
> was 60 minutes by one family at one exhibit). This is of course  
> orders of
> magnitude longer than a typical interactive exhibit.
>

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