Semina: Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas (Oct 2014)

Interactive push-button: elaborations main automation and miscellaneous applications equipment statements of museums of science and technology

  • Osmar Henrique Moura da Silva,
  • Amarildo Ramos de Almeida,
  • Eliana Aparecida Silicz Bueno,
  • Irinéa de Lourdes Batista

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0375.2014v35n2p189
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 2
pp. 189 – 198

Abstract

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In Brazil there is a growing trend in the number of informal education settings such as Museums of Science and Technology (MCT) and others them. A recent survey indicated about 190 of them in the country, considered a relatively small number to serve over five thousand municipalities. Indeed, this represents heterogeneous group, in that, together with environments, which comparatively are still in early stages of development and expansion of their interactive activities. This activities, recognized for this differences in relation of those formal education activities, are routinely canned out by the visitors from the perspective of free choice, by handling cranks or grip buttons. In this context, this work aims to contribute to those committed with the places of informal education touting major electronic devices that can be easily mounted to the coveted automation equipment interactive push-button, whose applicability in different direction are also discussed.

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