Engaging the visitor : designing exhibits that work / Stephen Bitgood.

Edinburgh ; Boston : MuseumsEtc, 2014.

311 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Introduction : Visitor engagement--The attention-value model--Interpretive text : Deadly sins revisited: exhibit labels--Practical guidelines for developing interpretive labels--Interest and effort as predictors of reading--Interactive exhibits : Guidelines for developing interactive exhibits--Evaluating the falling feather exhibit--Evaluating a Pepper's Ghost exhibit--Immersion : Immersion experiences in museums--Simulated immersion in exhibitions--The visitor immersion experience--Sensory impressions from a museum visit--Dioramas--Bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references.