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Hi Andy and David,
Andy, I am guessing that you are referring to
"The Design of Interactive Exhibits to Promote the Making of Meaning"
Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 41-50, 2001
John K. Gilbert and Susan Stocklmayer
Or
"New experiences and old knowledge: towards a model for the personal awareness of science and
technology"
Susan Stocklmayer, and John K. Gilbert,
International Journal of Science Education, 2002, VOL. 24, NO. 8, 835-858
Due to copyright, I cannot forward these articles to you, but I recommend them if you are able to access them through a University library, or purchase them through a commercial company such as www.infotrieve.com
I believe that Sue (who works at the National Centre for Public Awareness at the Australian National University) is undertaking ongoing research into interactive exhibits and personal meaning mapping of visitors. Other articles written by Sue can be viewed at http://info.anu.edu.au/CPAS/Publications/Journals.asp
Robin Garnett/Lendon no longer works for Questacon, but freelances from Melbourne, Australia.
Leonie J Rennie (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia) has also published articles that may be of interest to you. http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/smec/staff/rennie.html
Falk and Dierking will be publishing an article on the long term impact of interactive exhibits in a mid-year edition of Curator.
Cheers
Cindy Chambers
Questacon Exhibition Services
Canberra, Australia
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David
are you familiar with the work carried out by John Gilbert (The University
of Reading, UK), Susan Stocklmayer (Australian National University) and
Robin Garnett (Questacon) looking into the use of mental modelling in
visitors to the Questacon science centre and how their mental models are
shaped by their interaction with specific exhibits and, crucially, how these
are maintained after the visit. Part of the study involved phone interviews
with visitors several months later. The evidence seemed to be that visitors
were in many cases subconsciously using their science centre experience to
build mental models that they then used in later situations. This was
several years ago, and maybe someone from Questacon will know more about
whether this work continued, but it was the first hard evidence I
encountered of measurable long-term effects of science centre visits.
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