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 * [log in to unmask] * http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/~werner * ** SPIDER or FLY? Are we masters of the Web or trapped in it? **