CAREER: Tangible Interfaces for Collaborative Learning Environments

职业：协作学习环境的有形界面

• 批准号: 9984385
• 负责人: Lori Scarlatos
• 金额: $ 27.44万
• 依托单位: CUNY Brooklyn College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9984385&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Tangible; Interfaces; Collaborative; Learning

This is the first year of funding of a 4 year continuing award. The PI will explore new ways that technology can enhance education without becoming the focus of the educational experience. The central goal is to help teachers get students interested in or even excited about careers in math and science. To this end, the PI will develop strategies and software that support the development of tangible interfaces for collaborative learning environments. Such interfaces enable the computer to "watch" as children work together on puzzles and other educational tasks in a physical environment, and to then act as a "guide on the side" that encourages and prods much as a teacher would. The PI will build on her earlier effort that produced a prototype Tangram puzzle which uses computer vision techniques to track the puzzle pieces and offers encouragement and guidance as is appropriate. Issues to be addressed in the current project include tracking multiple objects simultaneously using low cost technologies, and expressing 3D topological relations uniquely. Evaluation of this prototype and its extensions, conducted at the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science, will guide the evolution of the ideas and software, in this effort, which will ultimately create tools that enable instructors to develop their own tangible interfaces for collaborative learning environments. This software will be made publicly available via the world wide web.

这是一个为期4年的连续奖励的第一年。PI将探索新的方法，技术可以提高教育，而不会成为教育经验的重点。中心目标是帮助教师让学生对数学和科学职业感兴趣，甚至感到兴奋。为此，PI将开发支持协作学习环境的有形接口开发的策略和软件。这样的界面使计算机能够“观看”孩子们在物理环境中一起做拼图和其他教育任务，然后充当“旁边的向导”，像老师一样鼓励和督促。PI将建立在她早期的努力，产生了一个原型七巧板拼图，使用计算机视觉技术来跟踪拼图块，并提供适当的鼓励和指导。在当前项目中要解决的问题包括使用低成本技术同时跟踪多个对象，并唯一地表示3D拓扑关系。这个原型及其扩展的评估，在艺术和科学数学博物馆进行，将指导思想和软件的演变，在这方面的努力，这将最终创建工具，使教师能够开发自己的有形界面的协作学习环境。该软件将通过万维网向公众提供。