Designing a virtual arboretum as an immersive, multimodal, interactive, data visualization virtual field trip

MCR Harrington, Z Bledsoe, C Jones, J Miller… - Multimodal …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper describes a virtual field trip application as a new type of immersive, multimodal,
interactive, data visualization of a virtual arboretum. Deployed in a game engine, it is a large …

Exploring the utility of social-network-derived collaborative opportunity temperature readings for informing design and research of large-group immersive learning …

A Mallavarapu, L Lyons, S Uzzo - Journal of learning analytics, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
Large-group (n> 8) co-located collaboration has not been adequately studied because it
demands different conceptual framings than those used to study small-group collaboration …

Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences

D Darzentas, H Cameron, H Wagner, P Craigon… - AI EDAM, 2022 - cambridge.org
The capture and analysis of diverse data is widely recognized as being vital to the design of
new products and services across the digital economy. We focus on its use to inspire the co …

Cultivating data visualization literacy in museums

K Peppler, A Keune, A Han - Information and Learning Sciences, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to explore what design aspects can support data visualization
literacy within science museums. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative study …

Rome is where the heart is: Designing immersive experiences to augment and build personal connections to outdoor environments

PR Brundell, N Harlow, H Cameron… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We report on the development and deployment of an immersive Virtual Heritage app
designed to recreate part of the physical and social world of an important Roman town in the …

Joint choice time: A metric for better understanding collaboration in interactive museum exhibits

M Berland, V Kumar - LAK23: 13th International Learning Analytics and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose a new metric–Joint Choice Time (JCT)–to measure how and when
visitors are collaborating around an interactive museum exhibit. This extends dwell time, one …

What Makes Interactive Art Engaging?

M Krzyzaniak, Ç Erdem, K Glette - Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Interactive art requires people to engage with it, and some works of interactive art are more
intrinsically engaging than others. This article asks what properties of a work of interactive …

Exploration maps, beyond top scores: Designing formative feedback for open-ended problems

A Mallavarapu - Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Learners are being exposed to abstract skills like innovation, creativity and reasoning
through collaborative open-ended problems. Most of these problems, like their real-world …

Interpretable models for understanding immersive simulations

N Hoernle, K Gal, B Grosz, L Lyons, A Ren… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper describes methods for comparative evaluation of the interpretability of models of
high dimensional time series data inferred by unsupervised machine learning algorithms …

Co-Designing Learning Dashboards for Informal Educators

E Beheshti, L Lyons, A Mallavarapu… - Design Make Play for …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter details how a team of researchers and technology developers at the New York
Hall of Science (NYSCI) worked with museum floor staff, program facilitators, trainers, and …