Title
Learner articulation in an immersive visualization environment
Abstract
Learner articulation, described variously in the literature on cognition and instruction as self-explanation or self-directed generative summarization, contributes to new learning through the process of combining ideas in the course of expressing them. In this observational study, we examined movement, gesture and verbal explanation as 14 undergraduate engineering students explored in an immersive visualization display to understand concepts in basic fluid dynamics. Data from user videos, interviews, and a 3-D graphical tracking tool were analyzed. Approach, observational, and perspectival 'moves' were in evidence to support articulation. Students' dietic, iconic and metaphoric gestures combined with their verbalizations to achieve generative articulations regarding the content. Accuracy of articulations and system features remains an open question.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/985921.986063
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
immersive visualization display,self-directed generative summarization,basic fluid dynamic,learner articulation,metaphoric gesture,3-d graphical tracking tool,open question,immersive visualization environment,generative articulation,new learning,observational study,fluid dynamics,hci
Automatic summarization,Computer science,Immersive visualization,Gesture,Human–computer interaction,Generative grammar,Cognition,Multimedia,Immersive learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-703-6
3
0.51
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joan Mazur142.66
Cindy H. Lio231.19