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resource research Media and Technology

Portal to the Public: Face-to-Face With Scientists

The First Synthesis Meeting was held in January 2008, at the front end of the Portal to the Public grant period. For this meeting, forty-three experts, stakeholders and members of the project team came together at Pacific Science Center for two days of dialog and reflection. Participants brought diverse knowledge and experience, and represented public, research scientist and informal science education perspectives. The First Synthesis Meeting's goal was to facilitate in-depth conversation to identify current initiatives, best practices, and future directions regarding activities in the field
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TEAM MEMBERS: Dennis Schatz Lauren Moreno (Russell)
resource research Media and Technology

Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, June 2008, NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning

An agenda on cyberlearning programs and projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Christine L. Borgman
resource research Media and Technology

Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects

The March 12-13, 2007 workshop at NSF on informal science education evaluation brought together a distinguished group of experts to discuss how impact categories might be best applied to various types of informal learning projects. This publication is an outcome of that meeting. The authors have strived to make the sections as helpful as possible given the primary focus of this workshop on project impacts. It should be viewed as part of an ongoing process to improve the ways in which evaluation can most benefit ISE projects, NSF, and the field. The publication is intended to help those
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TEAM MEMBERS: Alan Friedman Sue Allen Patricia Campbell Lynn Dierking Barbara Flagg Cecilia Garibay Randi Korn Gary Silverstein David Ucko
resource evaluation

A Multitouch Software Architecture

In recent years, a large amount of software for multitouch interfaces with various degrees of similarity has been written. In order to improve interoperability, we aim to identify the common traits of these systems and present a layered software architecture which abstracts these similarities by defining common interfaces between successive layers. This provides developers with a unified view of the various types of multitouch hardware. Moreover, the layered architecture allows easy integration of existing software, as several alternative implementations for each layer can co-exist. Finally
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TEAM MEMBERS: Florian Echtler Gudrun Klinker Jim Spadaccini
resource research Media and Technology

Creating Map-based Storyboards for Browsing Tour Videos

Watching a long unedited video is usually a boring experience. In this paper we examine a particular subset of videos, tour videos, in which the video is captured by walking about with a running camera with the goal of conveying the essence of some place. We present a system that makes the process of sharing and watching a long tour video easier, less boring, and more informative.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Michael Cohen Jue Wang Suporn Pongnumkul