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RFID enhances visitors' museum experience at the Exploratorium

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Interactive RFID-enhanced museum exhibits let visitors continue their scientific exploration beyond the museum's walls. But museums must still help them understand the technology and address their data privacy concerns.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 48, Issue 9
                Special issue: RFID
                September 2005
                109 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1081992
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