Accessible Oceans: Exploring Ocean Data through Sound

可到达的海洋：通过声音探索海洋数据

• 批准号: 2115751
• 负责人: Amy Bower
• 金额: $ 29.64万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2115751&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Accessible; Oceans; Exploring; Ocean; Data

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The Accessible Oceans study will design auditory displays that support learning and understanding of ocean data in informal learning environments like museums, science centers, and aquariums. Most data presentations in these spaces use visual display techniques such as graphs, charts, and computer-generated visualizations, resulting in inequitable access for learners with vision impairment or other print-related disabilities. While music, sound effects, and environmental sounds are sometimes used, these audio methods are inadequate for conveying quantitative information. The project will use sonification (turning data into sound) to convey meaningful aspects of ocean science data to increase access to ocean data and ocean literacy. The project will advance knowledge on the design of auditory displays for all learners, with and without disabilities, as well as advance the use of technology for STEM formal and informal education. The study will include 425 participants but will reach tens of thousands through the development of education materials, public reporting, and social media. The study will partner with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Discovery Center, the Georgia Aquarium, the Eugene Science Center, the Atlanta Center for the Visually Impaired, and Perkins School for the Blind.The project will leverage existing educational ocean datasets from the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative to produce and evaluate the feasibility of using integrated auditory displays to communicate tiered learning objectives of oceanographic principles. Integrated auditory displays will each be comprised of a data sonification and a context-setting audio introduction that will help to make sure all users start with the same basic information about the phenomenon. The displays will be developed through a user-centered design process that will engage ocean science experts, visually impaired students and adults (and their teachers), and design-oriented undergraduate and graduate students. The project will support advocacy skills for inclusive design and will provide valuable training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in human-centered design and accessibility. The project will have foundational utility in auditory display, STEM education, human-computer interaction, and other disciplines, contributing new strategies for representing quantitative information that can be applied across STEM disciplines that use similar visual data displays. The project will generate publicly accessible resources to advance studies of inclusive approaches on motivating learners with and without disabilities to learn more about and consider careers in STEM.This Pilots and Feasibility Studies project is supported by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning 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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助的（公共法117-2）。可访问的海洋研究将设计听觉显示，以支持博物馆，科学中心和水族馆等非正式学习环境中对海洋数据的学习和理解。这些空间中的大多数数据演示文稿都使用视觉显示技术，例如图形，图表和计算机生成的可视化，从而使患有视力障碍或其他与印刷相关的残疾的学习者无法获得不平等的访问。尽管有时会使用音乐，声音效果和环境声音，但这些音频方法不足以传达定量信息。该项目将使用SONIFICAL（将数据变成声音）传达海洋科学数据的有意义方面，以增加获得海洋数据和海洋识字的访问。该项目将促进有关所有学习者（有或没有残疾）的听觉展示设计的知识，并推动将技术用于STEM正式和非正式教育。该研究将包括425名参与者，但通过开发教育材料，公开报告和社交媒体将达到数万。该研究将与史密森尼国家自然历史博物馆，伍兹孔海洋学海洋发现中心，佐治亚水族馆，尤金科学中心，亚特兰大观察障碍中心和珀金斯盲人学校合作。海洋原则的目标。集成的听觉显示器将各自由数据超声和上下文设定的音频介绍组成，该介绍将有助于确保所有用户从有关该现象的相同基本信息开始。展示将通过以用户为中心的设计过程开发，该过程将吸引海洋科学专家，视觉障碍的学生和成人（及其老师）以及面向设计的本科生和研究生。该项目将支持包容性设计的倡导技能，并将为以人为中心的设计和可访问性为研究生和本科生提供宝贵的培训机会。该项目将在听觉显示，STEM教育，人类计算机互动和其他学科中具有基础实用性，为代表定量信息的新策略提供了新的策略，这些信息可以在使用类似的视觉数据显示的STEM学科中应用。该项目将产生公共可访问的资源，以推动对具有和没有残疾的学习者进行包容性方法的研究，以了解有关STEM中的更多有关和考虑职业的研究。该飞行员和可行性研究项目项目得到了非正式的STEM学习计划的支持，该计划旨在提高基于证据的方法，以及基于证据的方法，以及基于证据的基于证据的理解，在非正式环境中的STEM学习和发展。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大对STEM学习经验的访问和参与，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，并发展参与者对更深入的学习的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过使用该基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估Criteria Criteria的评估。