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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来源于《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）。无障碍海洋研究将设计听觉展示，支持在博物馆、科学中心等非正式学习环境中学习和理解海洋数据和水族馆。这些空间中的大多数数据呈现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效果，导致视力障碍或其他与印刷相关的障碍的学习者无法公平地获取数据。虽然有时会使用音乐、音效和环境声音，但这些音频方法不足以传达定量信息。该项目将使用可听化（将数据转化为声音）来传达海洋科学数据的有意义的方面，以增加对海洋数据的获取和海洋素养。该项目将增进所有学习者（无论有无残疾）听觉展示设计的知识，并促进 STEM 正式和非正式教育技术的使用。该研究将包括 425 名参与者，但通过编写教育材料、公开报告和社交媒体，将覆盖数万名参与者。该研究将与史密森尼国家自然历史博物馆、伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海洋探索中心、佐治亚水族馆、尤金科学中心、亚特兰大视障中心和帕金斯盲人学校合作。该项目将利用现有的来自 NSF 资助的海洋观测计划的教育海洋数据集，用于生成和评估使用综合听觉显示来传达海洋学原理的分层学习目标的可行性。集成的听觉显示将由数据听觉和上下文设置音频介绍组成，这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。这些显示器将通过以用户为中心的设计流程进行开发，该流程将吸引海洋科学专家、视障学生和成人（及其老师）以及以设计为导向的本科生和研究生。该项目将支持包容性设计的倡导技能，并将为研究生和本科生提供以人为本的设计和可达性方面的宝贵培训机会。该项目将在听觉显示、STEM 教育、人机交互和其他学科中具有基础实用性，提供表示定量信息的新策略，这些信息可以应用于使用类似视觉数据显示的 STEM 学科。该项目将生成可公开访问的资源，以推进对包容性方法的研究，以激励残疾和健全学习者更多地了解和考虑 STEM 职业。该试点和可行性研究项目得到了推进非正式 STEM 学习计划的支持，该计划旨在推动在非正式环境中设计和开发 STEM 学习的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径来扩大 STEM 学习体验的获取和参与，推进非正式环境中 STEM 学习的创新研究和评估，以及加深参与者对更深层次学习的理解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。