Pilot: Tangible Interaction Kiosks: Integrating Physical/Digital Interaction and Visual Design to Support Creativity in K-12 Informal Science Education

试点：有形交互信息亭：整合物理/数字交互和视觉设计，支持 K-12 非正式科学教育中的创造力

• 批准号: 0856065
• 负责人: Brygg Ullmer
• 金额: $ 19.97万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0856065&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Tangible; Interaction; Kiosks; Integrating

This project develops and applies ?tangible interaction kiosks? to support creativity in K-12 informal science education. It is a collaboration among design and computational faculty and students, and builds on synergistic ongoing NSF and state-funded efforts. Tangible interaction kiosks are a platform for human-computer interaction that combine interaction devices (developed with support from NSF MRI 0521559) and static and dynamic visuals. This builds upon previous efforts to support informal middle school science education, in cooperation with the Louisiana-based NSF LIGO Science Education Center (SEC) and extends to several middle schools across Louisiana. The first kiosk content is a multi-player ?Powers of Ten? game where competing children attempt to guess the physical scale of successive images. Movie or game content is chosen through a tangible interface, while child interaction is conducted through several knob-augmented handheld computersThis NSF pilot carries out new three-pronged research with focus upon the development of creative tools for graphic designers, domain scientists, K-12 teachers, and K-12 student end-users who take on central roles in new content production. The researchers are developing, applying, and evaluating:? tools that support authoring new content for variations of the existing educational game;? tools for allowing graphic designers, domain scientists, K-12 teachers, and K-12 student end users to engage in content creation, leveraging the existing Anoto and LiveScribe smart pen technologies; and? discussions and planning toward generalizing this approach to other scientific domains and audiences, in support of a full CreativeIT proposal to be proposed for launch after the two-year pilot.The proposal focuses upon the support of creativity with information technology, and innovative educational approaches. The tools? creativity support is being evaluated on:? how the platform enhances the creative processes of iterative interaction design;? how the platform enhances the creative process of content production; and? how content delivered on the platform supports creativity in the learning processes of student users.

该项目开发并应用“有形交互信息亭”支持 K-12 非正式科学教育的创造力。这是设计和计算教师和学生之间的合作，建立在国家科学基金会和国家资助的持续协同努力的基础上。有形交互信息亭是一个人机交互平台，结合了交互设备（在 NSF MRI 0521559 的支持下开发）以及静态和动态视觉效果。该项目建立在之前与路易斯安那州 NSF LIGO 科学教育中心 (SEC) 合作支持非正式中学科学教育的努力的基础上，并扩展到路易斯安那州的几所中学。第一个信息亭内容是多人游戏“十的幂”。游戏中，相互竞争的孩子们试图猜测连续图像的物理比例。电影或游戏内容通过有形界面进行选择，而儿童互动则通过多个旋钮增强型手持电脑进行。该 NSF 试点开展了新的三管齐下的研究，重点是为图形设计师、领域科学家、K-12 开发创意工具教师和 K-12 学生最终用户在新内容制作中发挥着核心作用。研究人员正在开发、应用和评估：？支持为现有教育游戏的变体创作新内容的工具；？允许图形设计师、领域科学家、K-12 教师和 K-12 学生最终用户利用现有的 Anoto 和 LiveScribe 智能笔技术参与内容创作的工具；和？讨论和计划将这种方法推广到其他科学领域和受众，以支持拟在两年试点后启动的完整 CreativeIT 提案。该提案的重点是通过信息技术和创新教育方法支持创造力。工具？正在评估创造力支持：？该平台如何增强迭代交互设计的创意过程；？平台如何增强内容制作的创意过程；和？平台上提供的内容如何支持学生用户学习过程中的创造力。