Our paper titled “From Space to Experience: Understanding Visitor Behaviour in Museums through Visibility Analysis”, led by Asya Natapov and Mohammad Forghanielahabadi, and co-authored by Sergei Gepshtein, Sergey Savel’ev, Kathryn Brown, Alison Kahn, and Haotian Dai, has been accepted for presentation at the Spatial Cognition Conference in Glasgow. The conference is hosted by the Turner Kirk Centre for Spatial Reasoning and will take place from 25–28 August 2026. Another paper, entitled “Investigating Museum Visitor Behaviour with Visibility Analysis”, has been accepted for presentation at the Movement and Cognition conference, to be held at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, from 4–6 October.
Both papers showcase our findings on the relationship between museum spatial layout and visitor movement. These relationships are not based solely on the visibility or proximity of artefacts. Instead, visitor behaviour is shaped by how individual artefacts participate in a relational visual system embedded within the spatial configuration of a given museum room. From an architectural design perspective, this highlights the importance of balancing cumulative visibility to guide movement with strategic focal engagement, demonstrating how spatial organisation and layout can be leveraged to create innovative forms of museum curatorial storytelling.