On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Allison wrote:

> I'm looking for sources for information on visitor behavior in the
> Museum Setting.  Signage, exhibition design, etc.  Any sources that are
> more current than things published in the 1980's would be greatly
> appreciated.


Dear Jeffrey Allison and list-members,

try the proceedings of the International Laboratory for Visitor Studies
ILVS, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There you will
find a lot of information. Other sources are:

Beer, Valorie (1987): Great Expectations: Do Museums Know What Visitors
Are Doing? In: Curator Vol. 30 No. 3, p. 206-215.

Bitgood, S./Patterson, D. (1986): Principles of Orientation and
Circulation. In: Visitor Behavior, II/1, pp. 4-6.

Falk, John H. (1985): Predicting Visitor Behavior. In: Curator, 28(4), pp.
249-57.

Haesler, John K. (1989): Length of Visitor Stay. In: Bitgood,
Stephen/Roper, James T. Jr./Benefield, Arlene (1989): Visitor Studies:
Theory, Research and Practice Volume 2. Jacksonville, Alabama: Center for
Social Design. p. 252-258.

Hood, Marilyn G. (1991): Significant Issues in Museum Audience Research.
In: Bene-field, Arlene/Bitgood, Stephen/Shettel H. (1991, eds.): Visitor
Studies: Theory, Rese-arch and Practice Volume 4. Jacksonville, Alabama:
Center for Social Design. p. 18-23.

Hood, Marilyn G. (1983): Staying away: Why People Choose Not to Visit
Museums. In: Museum News, pp. 50-57.

Koran, John J./Scott, John Foster, Koran Mary Lou (1989): The Relationship
Among Interest, Attention and Learning in a Natural History Museum. In:
Bitgood, Ste-phen/Roper, James T. Jr./Benefield, Arlene (1989): Visitor
Studies: Theory, Research and Practice Volume 2. Jacksonville, Alabama:
Center for Social Design. p. 239-244.

Loomis, Ross J. (1987): Museum Visitor Evaluation: New Tool for
Management. AASLH Management Series Vol. 3. Nashville, Tenn.: American
Association for State and Local History. 306 p.

McManus, Paulette M. (1993): Thinking About The Visitor"s Thinking. In:
Bicknell, Sandra/Farmelo, Graham (1993, Hrsg.): Museum Visitor Studies in
the 90s. London: Science Museum. pp. 108-113.

McManus, Paulette M. (1991): Making Sense of Exhibits. In: Kavanagh,
Gaynor (1991, Hrsg.): Museum Languages: Objects and Texts. Leicester:
Leicester University Press. pp. 35-46.

McManus, Paulette (1991): Towards Understanding Needs of Museum Visitors.
In: Lord, Gail D./Lord, Barry (1991, Hrsg.): The Manual of Museum
Planning. London: HMSO. pp. 35-52.

McManus, Paulette M. (1990): Watch your language: People Do Read Labels.
In: ILVS Review: A Journal of Visitor Behavior, 1 (2), 125-7.

McManus, Paulette M. (1988): 'Good companions ...': More on the Social
Determi-nation of Learning-related Behavior in a Science Museum. In:
Museum Management and Curatorship 7, pp. 37-44

McManus, Paulette M. (1987): 'It's the company you keep ...': The Social
Determina-tion of Learning-related Behavior in a Science Museum. In:
Museum Management and Curatorship 6, pp. 263-70

McNamara, Patricia A. (1990): Trying it out. In: ILVS Review: A Journal of
Visitor Behavior, 1 (2), 1990. pp. 132-134.

Robinson, E. S. (1933): The Behavior of the Museum Visitor. Washington,
D.C.: American Association of Museums.

Screven, Chandler G. (1993): Visitor Studies: An Introduction. In: Museum
Interna-tional (UNESCO), 178 (XLV/2): 4-5.

Treinen, Heiner (1996): Ausstellungen und Kommunikationstheorie. In: Haus
der Ge-schichte (1996, Hrsg.): Museen und ihre Besucher -
Herausforderungen in der Zu-kunft. (Reihe Museumsfragen) Berlin: Argon
Verlag. S. 60-71.

Treinen, Heiner (1993): What Does The Visitor Want Form A Museum?
Mass-media Aspects Of Museology. In: Bicknell, Sandra/Farmelo, Graham
(1993, Hrsg.): Museum Visitor Studies in the 90s. London: Science Museum.
pp. 86-93.

Worts, Douglas (1992): "Visitor-centered Experiences". In: Benefield,
Arle-ne/Bitgood, Stephen/Shettel, H. (1992): Visitor Studies: Theory,
Research and Prac-tice Volume 4. Jacksonville, Alabama: Center for Social
Design. p. 151-161.

Worts, Douglas (1990): "Enhancing" Exhibitions: Experimenting With
Visitor-centered Experiences at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In: Bitgood,
Stephen/Benefield, Arlene/Patterson, Donald (1990): Visitor Studies:
Theory, Research and Practice Vo-lume 3. Jacksonville, Alabama: Center for
Social Design. p. 203-213.

Worts, Douglas (1989): Shaking the Foundations: Recent Audience Research
at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In: Bitgood, Stephen/Roper, James T.
Jr./Benefield, Arlene (1989): Visitor Studies: Theory, Research and
Practice Volume 2. Jacksonville, Ala-bama: Center for Social Design. p.
203-210.

Regards
Werner Schweibenz
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