December 5th, 2021 | RESEARCH
The overarching goal of this Research in Service to Practice project is to leverage multimodal learning analytics to develop an enriched understanding of visitor engagement in science museums. The project centers on data-rich investigations of visitor engagement with interactive tabletop exhibits about environmental science and sustainability. During free-choice learning in museums and science centers, visitor engagement shapes how learners interact with exhibits, move around the exhibit space, and form attitudes, interests, and understanding of science. Multimodal visitor analytics integrates the rich multichannel data streams produced by fully-instrumented exhibit spaces with the data-driven modeling functionalities afforded by recent advances in machine learning and educational data mining.
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting.
Document
1713545_James_Lester-and-Jonathan-Rowe_Poster.pdf
Team Members
James Lester, Principal Investigator, North Carolina State UniversityJonathan Rowe, Co-Principal Investigator, North Carolina State University
James Minogue, Co-Principal Investigator, North Carolina State University
Roy Campbell, Contributor, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1713545
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Audience: Evaluators | General Public | Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Reference Materials
Environment Type: Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits