EAGER: Cyberlearning at the Los Angeles State Historic Park

这个项目团队的长期目标是促进人们理解如何利用技术来利用公共空间的潜力，促进公民参与、公共互动，最终实现终身学习。在这个EAGER项目中，他们正在迈出一系列的第一步，了解如何利用技术增强公共空间，以促进和发展社区对公民参与的兴趣和实践。这项工作的地点是洛杉矶州立历史公园，这是洛杉矶市中心一片32英亩的土地，吸引了来自附近几个种族多样化社区的家庭。他们正在为公园创建一个原型解释性模块，这是一幅互动壁画，将邀请市民参与，并为公园及其周边社区发展社会记忆。评估的中心是测量和描述公园游客的参与、他们与媒体的参与以及媒体作者、组织结构和青年公民参与之间的相互作用。研究围绕着设计增加公民参与的装置的问题，学习新型的具体化互动技术如何以及在什么情况下增加公民参与，特别是社区青年。装置的设计基础和周围的体验来自三个理论视角：实践社区、游戏和表演，以及不断发展的社会记忆和促进这种不断发展的记忆的知识建设话语。面临的挑战是在人们主要为娱乐和游戏而访问的空间背景下实现公民参与和学习目标。这项工作潜在的更广泛的影响在于，有可能更好地学习如何利用社区和其他公共空间来促进公民参与和学习，特别是在经常光顾这些地方的年轻人中。参与公共场所的活动可以补充正规教育，旨在支持自愿、自主学习，特别有可能促进对主题和做事方式的积极情感反应和态度。作为第一步，这个团队正在设计一幅互动壁画，社区成员将以作者和合作者的身份参与其中。这里的目标是，当他们反复修改壁画以鼓励年轻人与其他人参与公民问题时，他们将朝着设计其他装置的指导方针迈进，这些装置也可以促进这种参与。该项目代表了一个未经检验但具有潜在变革性的想法在其早期阶段的工作，并可能在利用公共空间促进学习和公民参与目标方面催化快速和创新的进展。

The long-term goal of this project team is to advance understanding of how technology can be used to leverage the potential of public spaces to promote civic engagement, public interaction, and ultimately, life-long learning. In this EAGER project, they are carrying out a set of first steps in coming to understand how public spaces might be augmented with technology to promote and develop community interest and practice in civic engagement. The venue for the work is the Los Angeles State Historic Park, a 32-acre site in downtown LA that attracts families from several nearby ethnically-diverse neighborhoods. They are creating a prototype interpretive module for the park, an interactive mural that will act as an invitation to civic engagement and evolving social memory for the park and its surrounding communities. Evaluation centers on measuring and characterizing the engagement of park visitors, their participation with the media, and the interactions between media authorship, organizational structure, and youth civic engagement. Research is around issues in designing installations in ways that increase civic engagement, learning how and under what circumstances new types of embodied interaction technologies increase civic engagement, especially by neighborhood youth. Foundations for the design of the installation and experiences around it come from three theoretical perspectives: communities of practice, play and performativity, and the idea of an evolving social memory and the knowledge-building discourse that promotes such evolving memory. The challenge is to achieve the civic engagement and learning goals in the context of a space people visit primarily for recreation and play.The potential broader impacts of this work lie in the possibilities of learning better how to use neighborhood and other public spaces to promote civic engagement and learning, especially among youth who frequent those places. Participation in activities in public spaces could complement formal education and be designed to support voluntary, self-directed learning, with particular potential for promoting positive affective responses and attitudes towards subject matter and ways of doing things. As a first step, this team is designing an interactive mural that community members will engage with as authors and collaborators. The goals here, as they iteratively revise the mural so that it encourages youth engagement with others in civic issues, is to move towards developing guidelines for designing other installations that could also promote such engagement. This project represents work in its early states on an untested but potentially transformative idea and is likely to catalyze rapid and innovative advances in the use of public spaces for promoting learning and civic engagement goals.