Think Globally, Interact Locally: Advancing Science Learning using Interactive Spherical Displays to Model Global, Physical Systems

全球思考，本地互动：使用交互式球形显示器模拟全球物理系统推进科学学习

• 批准号: 1612485
• 负责人: Kathryn Stofer
• 金额: $ 29.58万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Think; Globally; Interact; Locally; Advancing

The connections between technology applications of all sorts and human users that are ubiquitous in informal learning and assume a great deal about how the technology is used and how learning takes place. Much of the research in this area has been focused on game design and interaction. This project will examine this interaction involving the use of gestures that represent how individuals work with systems and large data sets that represent complex systems like the oceans, to understand how basic elements of a project with a 3-D type of design might enhance the user experience and increase the utility and learning that takes place by understanding the cognitive elements of these game like interactions in specific STEM related settings like museums.This exploratory pathways project will investigate the use of interactive, gesture-enabled, multi-touch spheres for teaching about ocean systems in science centers and museums. The gesture-enabled aspect of the project will improve on interactive table-top installations which can frustrate users who use unexpected gestures and receive no response leading to brief interaction and abandonment without significant interaction or learning. The project will investigate ways in which unsupported gestures would still produce a system response which would encourage the user to remain at the installation and continue to investigate. The effect of multiple gestures will be supported by using natural mappings between gestures and interactions with the on-sphere data. The project investigates theories of embodied cognition that support the notion that by engaging with global-scale datasets on a spherical display more effectively models the earth in a non-distorted manner and therefore will be more natural and allow users to develop a more accurate conceptual model of how data relates to itself and the globe. In this way, the project shares some aspects of understanding about learning through game play. The sphere will not be a fully developed game but will share characteristics of game play.This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.

各种各样的技术应用程序和人类用户之间的联系在非正式学习中无处不在，并且对技术如何使用和学习如何发生有很大的假设。这一领域的许多研究都集中在游戏设计和交互上。该项目将研究这种互动，包括使用代表个人如何与系统和代表海洋等复杂系统的大型数据集一起工作的手势，以了解具有3d类型设计的项目的基本元素如何通过理解这些游戏的认知元素（如博物馆等特定STEM相关环境中的互动）来增强用户体验并增加实用性和学习。这个探索性路径项目将研究在科学中心和博物馆中使用交互式、手势支持、多点触摸球体来教授海洋系统。该项目的手势支持方面将改进交互式桌面安装，这可能会让使用意外手势的用户感到沮丧，并且没有收到响应，导致短暂的交互和放弃，而没有重要的交互或学习。该项目将研究不受支持的手势如何仍能产生系统响应，从而鼓励用户继续安装并继续研究。多个手势的效果将通过使用手势之间的自然映射和与球内数据的交互来支持。该项目研究了具身认知理论，这些理论支持这样一种观点，即通过在球形显示器上使用全球规模的数据集，更有效地以一种非扭曲的方式对地球进行建模，因此将更加自然，并允许用户开发更准确的概念模型，说明数据如何与自身和全球相关。通过这种方式，该项目分享了一些关于通过游戏学习的理解。球体不会是一个完全开发的游戏，但会分享游戏玩法的特点。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，扩大STEM学习经验的获取和参与，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深度学习的理解。