PAYING ATTENTION TO DISTRACTION: SCIENCE MUSEUM ENVIRONMENTS AND VISITOR ATTENTION
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Authors
Strick, Jessica Bret
Issue Date
2003
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
I conducted a comparative study aimed at understanding the effect of restricted visual access on visitor attention. I hoped to find a happy medium between screened exhibit clusters that imposed a thematic connection and the wide open environment that gave people freedom to make their own connections along with a big dose of distraction. Instead of screens, I used curtains. Instead of exhibit clusters, I examined just two adjacent exhibits at a time that were no more related to each other than their neighboring exhibits. The goal of the study was to add to the scant existing research on science museum environments and to provide one potential remedy for distraction.