The project will investigate how air quality data interactions (via these two concurrent designs: the public kiosk and the youth summer camp) can be designed to support learners' personal agency in data investigations, visualizations, and communications as well as how these experiences help non-experts learn about their environment.
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Jessica RobertsAlexander EndertJayma Koval
This Integrating Research and Practice project leverages museum exhibits as unique family learning spaces to promote community engagement in critical climate change conversations.
The conference will convene library leaders, climate researchers and educators, public health experts, and informal educators to examine the current prevalence of climate related programming in libraries, and how the concept of environmental health can be used by libraries to create locally and culturally relevant, change oriented, and equitable STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning experiences.
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TEAM MEMBERS:
Anne HollandNoah LenstraSteph HarmonPaul Dusenbery
This project builds on an NSF-funded program which engaged youth in the creation of art-science experiences that use the biology and the experiences of migratory birds as a means for communicating the impact of a changing climate.
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Rebecca SafranShawhin RoudbariMary Osnes
Climate change presents a significant challenge for parents worldwide as they navigate the task of preparing the next generation for a rapidly changing world. This interdisciplinary project aims to address this challenge by focusing on the needs of under-resourced Latino families, with a particular emphasis on Latino children who bear a disproportionate burden from climatic changes.
In a unique collaboration between PBS NewsHour and Indij Public Media (the parent company of ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today), this project will put the perspectives and the reporting of Indigenous communities front and center through their co-creation of digital and broadcast segments.
Recent advances in multimodal learning analytics show significant promise for addressing these challenges by combining multi-channel data streams from fully-instrumented exhibit spaces with multimodal machine learning techniques to model patterns in visitor experience data. We describe initial work on the creation of a multimodal learning analytics framework for investigating visitor engagement with a game-based interactive surface exhibit for science museums called Future Worlds.
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Jonathan RoweWookhee MinSeung LeeBradford MottJames Lester
resourceresearchMuseum and Science Center Exhibits
Multimodal models often utilize video data to capture learner behavior, but video cameras are not always feasible, or even desirable, to use in museums. To address this issue while still harnessing the predictive capacities of multimodal models, we investigate adversarial discriminative domain adaptation for generating modality-invariant representations of both unimodal and multimodal data captured from museum visitors as they engage with interactive science museum exhibits.
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Nathan HendersonWookhee MinAndrew EmersonJonathan RoweSeung LeeJames MinogueJames Lester
resourceresearchMuseum and Science Center Exhibits
Recent years have seen a growing interest in investigating visitor engagement in science museums with multimodal learning analytics. Visitor engagement is a multidimensional process that unfolds temporally over the course of a museum visit. In this paper, we introduce a multimodal trajectory analysis framework for modeling visitor engagement with an interactive science exhibit for environmental sustainability.
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Andrew EmersonNathan HendersonWookhee MinJonathan RoweJames MinogueJames Lester
resourceresearchMuseum and Science Center Exhibits
In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework for predicting learner engagement with Future Worlds, a tabletop science exhibit for environmental sustainability.
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Andrew EmersonNathan HendersonJonathan RoweWookhee MinSeung LeeJames MinogueJames Lester
The Arctic is warming four times faster as a result of climate change than any other region, but the impacts of this warming are not well known beyond the local communities in the region. The Alaska Pacific University (APU) will organize a one-year planning project to further develop relationships with four Indigenous communities along the Alaskan Yukon River who are experiencing environmental and social impacts from the climate crisis.
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James TemteJulie Brigham-GretteBlane De St CroixErin Marbarger
resourceevaluationMuseum and Science Center Exhibits
This document presents the final evaluation report for the NSF-funded AISL project: "Multimodal Visitor Analytics: Investigating Naturalistic Engagement with Interactive Tabletop Science Exhibits."