What Biological Visualizations Do Science Center Visitors Prefer in an Interactive Touch Table?

Autor/inn/en	Höst, Gunnar E.; Schönborn, Konrad J.; Fröcklin, Henry; Tibell, Lena A. E.
Titel	What Biological Visualizations Do Science Center Visitors Prefer in an Interactive Touch Table?
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 8 (2018), Artikel 166 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Höst, Gunnar E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Visualization; Science Education; Science Interests; Cytology; Molecular Biology; Science Teaching Centers; Museums; Exhibits; Manipulative Materials; Hands on Science; Interaction; Technology Integration; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visualisation; Visualisierung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Zytologie; Molekularbiologie; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Hilfsmittel; Interaktion; Schweden
Abstract	Hands-on digital interactivity in science centers provides new communicative opportunities. The "Microcosmos" multi-touch table allows visitors to interact with 64 image "cards" of (sub)microscopic biological structures and processes embedded across seven theme categories. This study presents the integration of biological content, interactive features and logging capabilities into the table, and analyses visitors' usage and preferences. Data logging recorded 2,070,350 events including activated category, selected card, and various finger-based gestures. Visitors interacted with all cards during 858 sessions (96 s on average). Finger movements covered an average accumulated distance of 4.6 m per session, and about 56% of card interactions involved two fingers. Visitors made 5.53 category switches per session on average, and the virus category was most activated (average 0.96 per session). An overall ranking score related to card attractive power and holding power revealed that six of the most highly used cards depicted viruses and four were colourful instrument output images. The large finger traversal distance and proportion of two-finger card interaction may indicate the intuitiveness of the gestures. Observed trends in visitor engagement with the biological visualizations are considered in terms of construal level theory. Future work will examine how interactions are related to potential learning of biological content. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01