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

这个三阶段项目汇集了120名领先的国际研究人员和科学教育工作者：两个评估和可视化工具研讨会;戈登科学和教育可视化会议;和五个合作小额赠款，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制定方向。 一个独特的，可持续的多学科研究和开发社区的增长将得到促进。在化学，物理和生物学可视化从业人员和认知和学习科学的研究人员在以前的研讨会发起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认知科学的视角，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示所带来的研究挑战。 小额赠款的结果将指导未来的可视化研究在学习社区。 可视化的研究合作将扩展到几个非常重要的新的跨学科领域。将特别强调纳米技术的可视化和基因组学和系统生物学教育中的3D导航。 科学研究和教育领域的从业人员将与认知和学习研究人员一起举办研讨会，以解决如何评估新形式的可视化在具体设计和评估环境中的有效性的问题。这将有助于建立一个循环，在这个循环中，可视化的认知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，在地球仪各地分享最佳实践，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.