Designing engaging interactions for exploration and sharing of multidisciplinary outcomes in environmental education
(2007) Designing engaging interactions for exploration and sharing of multidisciplinary outcomes in environmental education. In Bajart, Anne and Muller, Henk and Strang, Thomas, Eds. Proceedings UbiComp 2007 Workshops Proceedings, pages pp. 589-592, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Abstract
The recent advent of mash-ups based on geobrowsers and social networking technologies holds great potential to use maps for sharing outcomes of activities in Environmental Education and to raise awareness around environmental sustainability issues. However, in this paper we argue that further interaction design research for online community applications in the context of Environmental Education is required in two ways. Firstly, this project is investigating how exploration, contribution and sharing of environmental outcomes can be seamlessly embedded in the existing practice of Environmental Education to engage students in environmental activities. For this purpose, it is investigating various facets of ubiquitous computing, namely web-based interfaces, mobile technology use and tangible media installations. Secondly, this project analyses challenges to the dominant map and planet metaphors as virtual copies of the real world and explores design and metaphor alternatives which integrate outcomes of multidisciplinary, environmental initiatives that may not necessarily be location-specific. In line with the strong participatory strategy of Environmental Education itself, this practice-led design research uses a participatory design methodology and includes students, educators, organisers, and mentors of environmental activities in an initial user needs analysis, the design process and evaluation of prototypes.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | Environmental Education; online community; social networking; ubiquitous computing; interaction design; mobile technology; tangible media; interfaces |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies 330000 Education > 330100 Education Studies > 330107 Educational Technology and Media 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280104 Computer-Human Interaction |
| ID Code: | 8737 |
| Deposited By: | Foth, Marcus |
| Deposited On: | 23 July 2007 |
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| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2007 Springer |
| Copyright Statement: | This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science. |