Information accessibility in museums with a focus on technology and cognitive process

Abstract

The present article is part of a more broaden study regarding the integrated systems of information. The focus of this research is the informational accessibility in museums under the perspective of the universal design and the ergonomic information and cognition. Its objective is to report the research regarding new information and communication technologies, based on bibliographic researches and synchronic analysis in Brazilian and European museums. This work was carried out under the intention to gather data about the state of the art in the area, aiming to understand it enough to find more proper solutions to be applied in the object of study - the Kahal Zur Israel synagogue. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.