EXP: Hands-on Haptics Laboratories for Classroom and Online Learning

EXP：用于课堂和在线学习的动手触觉实验室

• 批准号: 1441358
• 负责人: Allison Okamura
• 金额: $ 55万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EXP; Hands; Haptics; Laboratories; Classroom

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 designing and building new kinds of learning technologies and studying their possibilities for fostering learning and challenges to using them effectively. This project's technology innovation is a haptic (force-feedback) toolkit to be used in learning science and engineering content that involves forces. The toolkit the team is developing will allow learners (K-12 and beyond) to manipulate simulations and models through touch-sensitive devices and to directly feel resulting forces. Learning and using the science of forces is quite complex, as the ways forces actually combine and have effects are not always consistent with what people experience. Understanding forces, however, is essential for pursuits as varied as engineering, rehabilitative medicine, and construction and for understanding concepts and phenomena in biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering fields. The kind of direct engagement with forces at the micro-level that the proposed toolkit will allow has potential to foster better scientific understanding across this whole set of fields. Research in the context of this technological innovation focuses on the extent to which and the conditions under which such embodied experience with phenomena fosters deeper understanding. The role of embodied experiences in learning is both an important issue in learning how to better foster learning and a newly-emerging possibility for learning technologies. In this project, the PIs examine the potential for haptic technology to expand and transform student learning. The haptic interface being developed is a mechatronic device programmed with force-displacement relationships that a user experiences through the sense of touch. The project aims to demonstrate the ways the programming and use of haptic devices as a part of lab experiences can impact learning. The PI is a mechanical engineer who is expert in materials and devices. The co-PI is a learning scientist engaged closely with the maker movement and with helping learners learn from simulation and modeling experiences. Through an iterative, design-based research approach, new haptic devices and accompanying visual programming software are being created to enable interactive hands-on virtual laboratories for biology, chemistry, and physics, and experiments are being carried out to understand both how to use such devices well to foster learning and the affordances of haptics in learning force-related concepts and its added value in the context of learning through modeling and simulation.

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的努力将有助于设想下一代学习技术，并增进我们对人们如何在技术丰富的环境中学习的了解。网络学习探索 (EXP) 项目通过设计和构建新型学习技术并研究其促进学习的可能性以及有效使用它们的挑战来探索新型学习技术的可行性。该项目的技术创新是触觉（力反馈）工具包，用于学习涉及力的科学和工程内容。该团队正在开发的工具包将允许学习者（K-12 及以上）通过触摸感应设备操纵模拟和模型，并直接感受由此产生的力。学习和使用力的科学是相当复杂的，因为力实际结合和产生效果的方式并不总是与人们的经历一致。然而，理解力对于工程、康复医学和建筑等各种追求以及理解生物学、化学、物理和工程领域的概念和现象至关重要。拟议的工具包将允许与微观层面的力量直接接触，有可能促进对整个领域的更好的科学理解。在这种技术创新背景下的研究重点是这种对现象的具体体验在多大程度上和在什么条件下促进更深入的理解。体验在学习中的作用既是学习如何更好地促进学习的重要问题，也是学习技术的新出现的可能性。在这个项目中，PI 研究了触觉技术扩展和改变学生学习的潜力。正在开发的触觉界面是一种机电设备，采用用户通过触觉体验的力-位移关系进行编程。该项目旨在展示触觉设备的编程和使用作为实验室体验的一部分如何影响学习。 PI 是一位机械工程师，是材料和器件方面的专家。 联合 PI 是一位学习科学家，与创客运动密切合作，帮助学习者从模拟和建模经验中学习。通过基于设计的迭代研究方法，正在创建新的触觉设备和随附的可视化编程软件，以实现生物学、化学和物理学的交互式动手虚拟实验室，并且正在进行实验以了解如何使用这些设备设备可以很好地促进学习，并在学习与力相关的概念时提供触觉功能，及其在通过建模和模拟学习的背景下的附加值。

项目成果

Open source, modular, customizable, 3-D printed kinesthetic haptic devices

开源、模块化、可定制、3D 打印动觉触觉设备

• DOI: 10.1109/whc.2017.7989891
• 发表时间: 2017-06
• 期刊: IEEE World Haptics Conference
• 作者: Martinez, Melisa Orta;Campion, Joseph;Gholami, Tara;Rittikaidachar, Michal K.;Barron, Aaron C.;Okamura, Allison M.
• 通讯作者: Okamura, Allison M.

The Haptic Bridge: Towards a Theory for Haptic-Supported Learning

触觉桥：走向触觉支持学习的理论

• DOI: 10.1145/3078072.3079755
• 发表时间: 2017-06
• 期刊: Conference on Interaction Design and Children
• 作者: Davis, Richard Lee;Orta Martinez, Melisa;Schneider, Oliver;MacLean, Karon E.;Okamura, Allison M.;Blikstein, Paulo
• 通讯作者: Blikstein, Paulo

HandsOn: enabling embodied, creative STEM e-learning with programming-free force feedback

HandsOn：通过免编程的力反馈实现具体的、创造性的 STEM 电子学习

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42324-1_42
• 发表时间: 2016-06
• 期刊: Eurohaptics / Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 作者: Minaker, Gordon;Schneider, Oliver;Davis, Richard;MacLean, Karon E.
• 通讯作者: MacLean, Karon E.

3-D printed haptic devices for educational applications

用于教育应用的 3D 打印触觉设备

• DOI: 10.1109/haptics.2016.7463166
• 发表时间: 2016-04
• 期刊: IEEE Haptics Symposium
• 作者: Martinez, Melisa Orta;Morimoto, Tania K.;Taylor, Annalisa T.;Barron, Aaron C.;Pultorak, J. D.;Wang, Jeanny;Calasanz;Davis, Richard Lee;Blikstein, Paulo;Okamura, Allison M.
• 通讯作者: Okamura, Allison M.