EXP: BodyVis: Advancing New Science Learning and Inquiry Experiences via Custom Designed Wearable On-Body Sensing and Visualization

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的努力将有助于展望下一代学习技术，并促进我们对人们在技术丰富的环境中如何学习的了解。网络学习探索(EXP)项目通过建立范例并研究它们促进学习的可能性以及如何很好地使用它们的挑战来探索新型学习技术的可行性。随着技术变得更小、更便携，可穿戴计算的可能性变得越来越现实。这项提议利用这一可能性，通过制作带有传感器和显示器的衣服来帮助小学生学习解剖学和生理学，帮助孩子们看到他们自己的身体是如何工作的。例如，衬衫上真人大小的一对肺可能会发光，显示空气是如何随着孩子自己的呼吸及时进出肺部的。该项目有相互关联的研究和设计活动。形成性调查阶段将通过调查、访谈和“身体地图”方法记录孩子们对自己身体的了解和不了解，而STEM教育硕士项目的在职小学教师将被调查这一领域的孩子的学习目标。然后，将使用迭代、参与性和提供信息的设计过程，在以下两个接待服务不足的青年的背景下改进电子纺织衬衫和相关的学习活动：马里兰州农村妇女协会和哈特福德县的男孩和女孩俱乐部。还将与教师一起进行联合设计。最后，将在学校和非正式环境中对儿童进行学习研究，以探索学生在任职前获得的生理学和解剖学知识，以及日常活动如何改变身体健康和生物过程的知识。视频观察和日志文件将用于研究学习活动本身，并使用Chinn和Malhotra的科学探究框架进行编码。最后，技术本身的设计和相关活动将通过Instrucables等在线门户网站进行传播，这样其他教育工作者就可以建造或试验类似的健康教育可穿戴设备。

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that will help envision the next generation of learning technologies and advance what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. Cyberlearning Exploration (EXP) Projects explore the viability of new kinds of learning technologies by building examples and studying their possibilities for fostering learning as well as challenges to using them well. As technologies become smaller and more portable, the possibility of wearable computing becomes more and more realistic. This proposal takes advantage of this possibility to help elementary school aged children learn about anatomy and physiology by making clothing with sensors and displays to help kids see how their own bodies work. For example, a life-sized pair of lungs on a shirt might light up to show how air flows in and out of a child's lungs in time with their own breathing. The project has interconnected research and design activities. A formative inquiry phase will document what kids do and do not understand about their bodies through surveys, interviews, and a "body map" approach, while in-service elementary school teachers in a STEM education Master's degree program will be probed as to learning goals for kids in this domain. An iterative, participatory and informant design process will then be used to refine e-textile shirts and associated learning activities in two contexts that host underserved youth: the CASA de Maryland, and the Boys and Girls Club of Hartford County. Co-design will also be undertaken with teachers. Finally, learning studies will be done on children in schools and informal settings to probe students' pre-post gains in physiology and anatomy knowledge, and knowledge of how everyday activities change health and biological processes in the body. Video observation and logfiles will be used to study the learning activities themselves, and coded using Chinn and Malhotra's framework for scientific inquiry. Finally, the technology designs themselves and relevant activities will be disseminated through the use of online portals such as Instructables, so that other educators can build or experiment with similar health education wearables.