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|project_title=Resource-Adaptive Design of Visualizations for Supporting the Comprehension of Complex Dynamics in the Natural Sciences
|project_title=Resource-Adaptive Design of Visualizations for Supporting the Comprehension of Complex Dynamics in the Natural Sciences
|acronym=
|acronym=Dynamic Visualizations in Learning
|donor=  
|donor=Leibniz Association
|lead_partner=[[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute]]
|lead_partner=[[Knowledge Media Research Center]]
|call=
|call=Pact for Research and Innovation of the Competition Fund 2006 of the Leibniz-Association
|link_call=
|link_call=http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/about-us/history/
|agreement_number=
|agreement_number=
|partners=
|partners=OTEC: Onderwijstechnologisch Expertise-centrum der Open University of the Netherlands<br>
|cost=
LSRI: Learning Sciences Research Institute<br>
|grant=Pact for Research and Innovation of the Competition Fund 2006 of the Leibniz-Association
TECFA: Technologies de Formation et Appre-ntissage<br>
|cost_fwc=
LEAD (CNRS): Laboratoire D’etude del’ apprentissage et du developpement <br>
|grant_fwc=
CNTI: Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute
|dates=January 2007 - December 2009
|cost=€782,200
|description=
|grant=€782,200
|cost_fwc=ca €30,000
|grant_fwc=ca €30,000
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      |start_month=01
      |start_year=2007
      |end_day=31
      |end_month=12
      |end_year=2009
 
|description=Pact for Research and Innovation of the Competition Fund 2006 of the Leibniz-Association
|main_page=
|main_page=
|website=www.mentalmaps.org
|website=
|about=
|about=[[Dynamic Visualizations in Instruction]]
|title_header=Research Plan
|title_header=Research Plan
|content_header=The basic idea of the research project is that a successful knowledge acquisition with dynamic visualizations is a resource intensive process which requires simultaneous and optimized availability of different learning resources. This particularly comprises different processing capabilities of the cognitive system, functionalities of the applied computer technology and didactically substantiated contents and representations. Accordingly, the instructional potential of dynamic visualizations can only effectively evolve if these different learning resources are available in a coordinated way for a concrete knowledge acquisition scenario. This hypothesis will be investigated in formal learning settings (e.g. school, university) as well as in informal learning settings (e.g. aquarium, diving excursion) for a natural sciences domain, the locomotion of fish.
|content_header=The basic idea of the research project was that a successful knowledge acquisition with dynamic visualizations is a resource intensive process which requires simultaneous and optimized availability of different learning resources. This particularly comprises different processing capabilities of the cognitive system, functionalities of the applied computer technology and didactically substantiated contents and representations. Accordingly, the instructional potential of dynamic visualizations can only effectively evolve if these different learning resources are available in a coordinated way for a concrete knowledge acquisition scenario. This hypothesis was investigated in formal learning settings (e.g. school, university) as well as in informal learning settings (e.g. aquarium, diving excursion) for a natural sciences domain, the locomotion of fish.
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-To support the understanding of complex dynamic processes in the Natural Sciences. Thereby we draw attention to conducive design of dynamic visualizations while considering and developing findings from cognitive and media psychology.


-To study the following topics:


mental resources
*processing capacity
*working memory
*attention
*modality- and codality-based processing channels


Theoretical and Experimental Questions
The aim of the project is to support the understanding of complex dynamic processes in the Natural Sciences. Thereby we draw attention to conducive design of dynamic visualizations while considering and developing findings from cognitive and media psychology. Within this context we study the following topics:
mental resources
processing capacity, working memory
attention
modality- and codality-based processing channels
learner requirements
learner requirements
domain specific knowledge structures within long-term memory
*domain specific knowledge structures within long-term memory
expertise regarding cognitive and metacognitive processing strategies
*expertise regarding cognitive and metacognitive processing strategies
spatial ability, visual literacy
*spatial ability, visual literacy


|title_footer=Expected Results
|title_footer=Expected Results
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