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Lisa DiGregoria did a study on this while working at the St. Louis Science 
Center and her masters at Washington Uiversity. It was a prototype study. 
The abstract should be in conference proceedings. She is now in a doctoral 
program and her intent was to proceed in this direction. I will see if I can 
get in touch with her--maybe someone else on the list is in touch.

Carey



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Subject: Re: Human delivered experiences


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> Eric-
>
> I have also noticed the interest in "human delivered experiences".  I have 
> done a pretty comprehensive literature search and have not found much 
> research on the topic, so other than a few visitor surveys I have 
> conducted, I have no hard evidence for the importance of these sorts of 
> interactions to the visitor experince...at least not yet.  I have proposed 
> a three-year research study to explore the impacts of mediated experiences 
> in science centers; I will let you kow in September whether it is funded, 
> and maybe in three years I can give you a better answer to your question.
>
> Scott
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:07:22 -0400
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> Very good refinement of the q uestion, Bob...which KINDS of human 
> delivered experiences work well, what are the characteristics, how  are 
> they developed.  While comparing these "HDE's" (sorry!) to  exhibitions 
> may be problematic, I am looking for existing research  about the relative 
> effectiveness of the two gross genres of informal  learning strategies.
>
> Eric Siegel
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> On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Robert L. Russell wrote:
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>>This is in response to the last comment, wondering whether the 
>>effectiveness
>>of human-intervention has been compared to stand-alone   interactives etc. 
>>To
>>me, this is apples and oranges.  Both kinds of  experiences have an 
>>important
>>place, but here I will just make a few comments  about the  importance of
>>people in learning.
>>
>>To point out some basic psych 101, social modeling is fundamental  to 
>>human
>>learning.  We learn by watching others and are also motivated by  wanting 
>>to
>>emulate others.  This is a key idea in Albert Bandura's work on social
>>modeling.  Vygotsky is also relevant here.
>>
>>Theater has long been a fundamental form of human expression,  passing on
>>culture, etc etc.  It has also been used very effectively in  museum 
>>settings,
>>ranging for re-enactors to theatrical productions.
>>
>>Dynamic presentations by people works very well. Boring lectures   don't. 
>>So
>>the question isn't so much, does it work in general, but what   kinds of 
>>human
>>interventions, presentations really work well in an interactive   museum.
>>
>>In another venue, social modeling is used very effectively in social
>>marketing and education entertainment, where educational messages  (e.g., 
>>disease  of
>>the week on ER, literacy campaigns on radio or telenovelas) are 
>>integrated
>>into entertainment media.  People take action because they are  influenced 
>>by
>>the actions of the fictional characters or situations on the shows.
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>Robert L.  Russell, Ph.D.
>>Learning Experience Design
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