Interactive exhibits: how visitors respond

The burgeoning field of visitor studies can provide a wealth of information on the effectiveness of interactive science exhibits. In Barcelona, Guillermo Fernández of the La Caixa Foundation Science Museum and Montserrat Benlloch, of the Faculty of Education of the University of Vic, devised a research project to see how different categories of visitor reacted to an ingenious exhibit and here recount the results of their work.