the present study corroborates the
assumed beneficial effects of mobile museum guides on visitors'
exploration and elaboration of exhibits by showing that M3 users
spent about 60% more time in the exhibition and also scrutinized
individual exhibits more extensively. Given that attention to information
about the exhibits is a relevant prerequisite for learning
and comprehension, it is important to analyze visitors' strategies of
accessing that information in exhibitions. Thus, in future studies, it
could be investigated whether the observations from the current
study can be used to design exhibitions that enhance learning. .
Notably, museum exhibitions that encompass large sets of exhibits
cannot be looked at completely in a reasonable amount of
time but instead require visitors to decide which of the exhibits
they would like to turn their attention to. Because exhibit selection
typically is a low-cost decision that can easily be reversed and has
no serious consequences, visitors can be assumed to base their
choices on simple heuristics, which allow them to identify the most
promising exhibits with the least effort