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Math on a Sphere: Making Use of Public Displays in Education
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International Association for Development of the Information Society . 2013. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Science on a Sphere (SoS) is a compelling educational display installed at numerous museums and planetariums around the world; essentially the SoS display is a large spherical surface on which multicolor high-resolution depictions of (e.g.) planetary weather maps may be depicted. Fascinating as the SoS display is, however, it is in practice restricted to the use of museum professionals; students (and for that matter, older museum visitors) are unable to create their own displays for the surface. This paper describes a working software system, "Math on a Sphere" (MoS), that democratizes the SoS display by providing a simple programming interface to the public, over the World Wide Web. Briefly, our system allows anyone to write programs for spherical graphics patterns, and then to upload those programs at a planetarium or museum site and see the result on the giant sphere. This paper describes the implementation of the MoS system; sketches a sample project; and concludes with a more wide-ranging discussion of our user testing to date, as well as strategies for empowering children and students with greater control of public displays. [For the full proceedings, see ED562107.]
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- International Association for Development of the Information Society
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- ED562223
- Document Type :
- Speeches/Meeting Papers<br />Reports - Descriptive