Development of Instructional Materials to Teach Concepts of Visualization

这是一个为期两年的项目，旨在开发课程材料，以教授可视化的概念，即，利用计算机图形显示信息。它是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和ACM SIGGRAPH教育委员会（SEC）之间的联合项目，具有国际范围。该项目建立在以前资助的几个NSF和SEC项目，以及由英国计算机图形咨询小组（AGOCG）资助的项目上。 虽然从某种意义上说，可视化已经存在了几百年，但从另一种意义上说，它只是最近才开始成为一门正式的学科。它最初是特定于科学计算应用程序，但已扩展到许多其他领域，如一般数据或信息可视化。可视化的基本概念可以转移到许多不同的领域，如数学，科学，商业，教育等。据估计，大脑中有50%的神经元与视觉有关，可视化利用了这种“眼睛/视觉皮层系统的千兆带宽”，以促进对许多不同应用领域中简单和复杂概念的理解。 虽然可视化以前已被用于许多不同的领域，如教育，但只是在过去几年中，大量的研究已经进入了该领域的许多基本原则和组成部分。我们建议利用这些研究工作中获得的知识，创建捕捉这些知识的教学材料，并将其提供给广大受众。该项目的成功实施将为教授可视化的重要概念提供基本材料，并可用于大学和K-12课程的许多不同层次。

This is a two-year project to develop curriculum materials to teach the concepts of Visualization, i.e., the use of computer graphics to display information. It is a joint project between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee (SEC) and is international in scope. This project builds on several previously funded NSF and SEC projects, and on a project funded by the United Kingdom Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG). While in one sense Visualization has been around for hundreds of years TUFT83 , in another sense, it began as a formal discipline only recently MCC087 . It was initially specific to scientific computing applications, but has been extended to many other areas such as general data or information visualization. The basic concepts of Visualization are transferable to, and important for, many different areas such as mathematics, science, business, education, and others. An estimated fifty percent of the brain' s neurons are associated with vision and Visualization exploits this "gigabit bandwidth of the eye/visual cortex system" MCC087 to facilitate the understanding of both simple and complex concepts in many different application areas. While Visualization has been previously used in many different areas, such as education, it has only been in the past few years that a large amount of research has gone into many of the underlying principles and components of the field. We are proposing to take the knowledge gained in these research efforts, create instructional materials that capture this knowledge, and make them available to a wide audience. The successful implementation of this project will provide the basic materials to teach the important concepts of Visualization and can be used at many different levels in college and K-12 courses.