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From Asymptomatics to Zombies: Visualization-Based Education of Disease Modeling for Children
Graham Mcneill 
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Max Sondag Sondag,
Stewart Powell,
Phoebe Asplin ,
Cagatay Turkay ,
Faron Moller ,
Daniel Archambault
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Max Sondag Sondag,
Stewart Powell,
Phoebe Asplin ,
Cagatay Turkay ,
Faron Moller ,
Daniel Archambault
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Swansea University Authors:
Max Sondag Sondag, Stewart Powell, Faron Moller , Daniel Archambault
DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3544548.3581573
Abstract
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, visualizations became commonplace in public communications to help people make sense of the world and the reasons behind government-imposed restrictions. Though the adult population were the main target of these messages, children were affected by restrictions throu...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-9421-5/23/04 |
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New York, NY, USA
ACM
2023
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581573 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62706 |
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, visualizations became commonplace in public communications to help people make sense of the world and the reasons behind government-imposed restrictions. Though the adult population were the main target of these messages, children were affected by restrictions through not being able to see friends and virtual schooling. However, through these daily models and visualizations, the pandemic response provided a way for children to understand what data scientists really do and provided new routes for engagement with STEM subjects. In this paper, we describe the development of an interactive and accessible visualization tool to be used in workshops for children to explain computational modeling of diseases, in particular COVID-19. We detail our design decisions based on approaches evidenced to be effective and engaging such as unplugged activities and interactivity. We share reflections and learnings from delivering these workshops to 140 children and assess their effectiveness. |
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| Keywords: |
Disease spread, Visualization, Children, Teaching |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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This work was funded by the UKRI EPSRC Grants EP/V033670/1 and EP/V054236/1. |