Seeing and Understanding: Gordon Conference, Workshops, and Mini-Grants to Guide Visualization Research in Science and Education

这个分三个阶段的项目汇集了120名国际领先的研究人员和科学教育工作者：两次关于评估和可视化工具的研讨会；戈登科学与教育可视化会议；以及五项小型合作资助，用于跨学习社区的探索性研究。NSF的支持将利用参与者和其他人的大量贡献，为美国和全球的可视化研究设定方向。将促进一个独特的、可持续的多学科研究和发展社区的发展。在以往的研讨会中，化学、物理和生物学领域的可视化实践者与认知和学习科学领域的研究人员之间的互动将得到扩展和深化。在研究和教学中使用可视化的物理和生物科学家将继续接触到认知科学的观点，而认知和学习科学家将继续努力应对科学中新形式的视觉表现所带来的研究挑战。小额赠款的成果将指导未来跨学习社区的可视化研究。可视化方面的研究合作将扩展到几个至关重要的新跨学科领域。特别的重点将放在可视化纳米技术和三维导航在基因组学和系统生物学教育。科学研究和教育从业者将与认知和学习研究人员一起讨论如何在具体设计和评估环境中评估新形式可视化的有效性。这将有助于建立一个循环，在这个循环中，视觉化的认知知情设计之后是对有效性的仔细评估，这反过来又会导致设计的进一步完善。会议上不同的学习社区将共同努力，通过可视化提高公众对科学的理解。最后，美国研究人员和教育工作者将与其他全球可视化领导者合作，分享全球最佳实践并相互学习。

This 3-phase project brings together 120 leading international researchers and science educators for: Two workshops on assessment and visualization tools; a Gordon Conference on Visualization in Science and Education; and five collaborative Mini-Grants for exploratory research across learning communities. Support from NSF will leverage substantial contributions from participants and others to set directions for visualization research in the US and globally. The growth of a unique, sustainable multidisciplinary research and development community will be promoted. The interaction between visualization practitioners in chemistry, physics, and biology and researchers in cognitive and learning science initiated in previous workshops will be extended and deepened. Physical and biological scientists who employ visualizations in research and teaching will continue to be exposed to the cognitive science perspective, while cognitive and learning scientists will continue to grapple with the research challenges posed by new forms of visual representation in the sciences. Outcomes of Mini-Grants will guide future visualization research across learning communities. Research collaborations in visualization will be extended to several critically important new interdisciplinary fields. Special emphasis will be placed on visualization in nanotechnology and 3D-navigation in genomics and systems biology education. Practitioners in scientific research and education will workshop with cognitive and learning researchers to tackle the issue of how to assess the effectiveness of new forms of visualization in concrete design and assessment contexts. This will help establish a cycle in which the cognitively-informed design of visualizations is followed by careful evaluations of effectiveness, which in turn lead to the further refinement of the designs. The diverse learning communities at the conference will work together to enhance public understanding of science through visualizations. Finally, American researchers and educators will work with other global visualization leaders to share best practices around the globe and learn from each other.