From Asymptomatics to Zombies: Visualization-Based Education of Disease Modeling for Children
From Asymptomatics to Zombies: Visualization-Based Education of Disease Modeling for Children
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10.1145/3544548.3581573
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2023-04
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Graham Mcneill;Max Sondag;Stewart Powell;P. Asplin;C. Turkay;Faron Moller;D. Archambault
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Graham Mcneill;Max Sondag;Stewart Powell;P. Asplin;C. Turkay;Faron Moller;D. Archambault
在整个COVID-19大流行期间，可视化在公共传播中变得司空见惯，以帮助人们了解世界以及政府实施限制背后的原因。尽管成年人是这些信息的主要目标，但儿童因无法见到朋友和虚拟学校教育而受到限制的影响。然而，通过这些日常模型和可视化，流行病应对为儿童提供了一种了解数据科学家真正做什么的方式，并为参与STEM主题提供了新的途径。在本文中，我们描述了一种交互式和可访问的可视化工具的开发，该工具将用于儿童研讨会，以解释疾病的计算建模，特别是COVID-19。我们详细介绍了我们的设计决策的基础上证明是有效的，如不插电活动和互动参与的方法。我们分享了为140名儿童举办这些研讨会的反思和教训，并评估了其有效性。
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, visualizations became commonplace in public communications to help people make sense of the world and the reasons behind government-imposed restrictions. Though the adult population were the main target of these messages, children were affected by restrictions through not being able to see friends and virtual schooling. However, through these daily models and visualizations, the pandemic response provided a way for children to understand what data scientists really do and provided new routes for engagement with STEM subjects. In this paper, we describe the development of an interactive and accessible visualization tool to be used in workshops for children to explain computational modeling of diseases, in particular COVID-19. We detail our design decisions based on approaches evidenced to be effective and engaging such as unplugged activities and interactivity. We share reflections and learnings from delivering these workshops to 140 children and assess their effectiveness.