Information-building applications: Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students

Tia Shelley; Leilah Lyons; Tom Moher; Chandan Dasgupta; Brenda Lopez-Silva; Alexandra Silva

doi:10.1145/2556288.2557294

Information-building applications: Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students

Tia Shelley, Leilah Lyons, Tom Moher, Chandan Dasgupta, Brenda Lopez-Silva, Alexandra Silva

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Abstract

The propagation of Inquiry Based Learning has lead to many more elementary students interacting with authentic scientific tools and practices. However, the more problematic realities of scientific data collection, such as noise and large data sets, are often deliberately hidden from students. Students will need to confront these realities and be able to make skillful data scoping decisions in order to make sense of ever more prevalent large datasets. We dub software designed to support these activities Information- Building Applications (IBAs). This paper presents the design considerations that went into building an exemplar IBA, PhotoMAT (Photo Management and Analysis Tool), a brief user study to show how the solutions enacted by following these principles are taken up by actual students, and a discussion of how the design considerations identified by our work might be applied to another IBA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2014
Subtitle of host publication	One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Matt Jones, Philippe Palanque, Albrecht Schmidt, Tovi Grossman
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	2123-2132
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-2473-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557294
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014

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Conference	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto, ON
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14

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K-12 science education
Learner centered design
Information-building Applications

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Shelley, T., Lyons, L., Moher, T., Dasgupta, C., Lopez-Silva, B., & Silva, A. (2014). Information-building applications: Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students. In M. Jones, P. Palanque, A. Schmidt, & T. Grossman (Eds.), CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2123-2132). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557294

Shelley, Tia ; Lyons, Leilah ; Moher, Tom et al. / Information-building applications : Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students. CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Matt Jones ; Philippe Palanque ; Albrecht Schmidt ; Tovi Grossman. New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. pp. 2123-2132

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Shelley, T, Lyons, L, Moher, T, Dasgupta, C, Lopez-Silva, B & Silva, A 2014, Information-building applications: Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students. in M Jones, P Palanque, A Schmidt & T Grossman (eds), CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 2123-2132, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada, 26/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557294

Information-building applications: Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students. / Shelley, Tia; Lyons, Leilah; Moher, Tom et al.
CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Matt Jones; Philippe Palanque; Albrecht Schmidt; Tovi Grossman. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 2123-2132.

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Shelley T, Lyons L, Moher T, Dasgupta C, Lopez-Silva B, Silva A. Information-building applications: Designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students. In Jones M, Palanque P, Schmidt A, Grossman T, editors, CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2014. p. 2123-2132 doi: 10.1145/2556288.2557294

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