Contextual Research-Empirical: Improving Visual Communication in Nanotechnology

情境研究-实证：改善纳米技术中的视觉传达

• 批准号: 1008568
• 负责人: Marco Rolandi
• 金额: $ 49.31万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1008568&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Contextual; Research; Empirical; Improving; Visual

This project addresses the problem of how and if scientists and engineers are able to understand each other when studying an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary phenomenon. If scientists and engineers from different disciplines have trouble communicating with each other around a specific topic of mutual interest, then cross-field collaborations of this nature will be problematic.Specifically, this research project aims to empirically examine the role that disciplinary knowledge in chemistry and electrical engineering play in the way in which nanotechnology graphics are produced and comprehended by doctoral students. Students from each discipline will draw graphics of a particular, pre-specified topic in nanotechnology. Then the students will think aloud when interpreting graphics created from the other disciplinary perspective. Finally, the participants will take part in an eye tracking study designed to examine how students visually address graphics vis a vis text in natural scientific contexts (i.e., when reading journal articles).The research may have implications for the approach that is taken in training doctoral students to work across disciplines. As interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research continues to become more commonplace, it is important that scientists and engineers be able to understand each other.The project will work with a national center on nanotechnology research and several NSF supported Research Experiences for Teachers sites to disseminate the result. The team will also publish in peer reviewed research journals.

该项目解决了科学家和工程师在研究跨学科或多学科现象时如何以及是否能够相互理解的问题。如果来自不同学科的科学家和工程师围绕共同感兴趣的特定主题进行沟通时遇到困难，那么这种跨领域合作就有问题。具体而言，本研究项目旨在实证研究化学和电气工程的学科知识在博士生制作和理解纳米技术图形方面所起的作用。 每个学科的学生将绘制一个特定的，预先指定的纳米技术主题的图形。然后，学生将思考大声解释从其他学科的角度创建的图形时。最后，参与者将参加一项眼动跟踪研究，旨在研究学生如何在自然科学背景下视觉上处理图形维斯文本（即，当阅读期刊文章时）。这项研究可能对培养博士生跨学科工作的方法有影响。 随着跨学科和多学科研究越来越普遍，科学家和工程师能够相互理解是很重要的。该项目将与一个国家纳米技术研究中心和几个NSF支持的教师研究经验网站合作，传播成果。 该团队还将在同行评审的研究期刊上发表文章。