Assistant Professor Ben Rydal Shapiro and Edwin Zhao, an instructional technology doctoral student in the Department of Learning Sciences had two papers accepted at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI Conference, the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
The articles are entitled, “The Interaction Geography Slicer: Designing Exploratory Spatial Data Visualization Tools for Teachers’ Reflective Practice” and “Exploratory Visual Analysis of Transcripts for Interaction Analysis in Human-Computer Interaction.”
In this Q&A Shapiro discusses the two publications and how they connect to his research.
Q: How would you summarize this subject matter?
A: “These publications introduce open-source interactive visualization tools designed for educators, teachers, and qualitative researchers. These tools enable users to visually explore data commonly collected in classrooms and other settings, such as video, conversation transcripts, and movement, in ways that also support teachers’ reflective practice.”
Q: How does this publication help with your research goals and/or interests?
A: “These publications align closely with our team’s research goals of designing interactive visualization tools that help educators, qualitative researchers, and practitioners make sense of complex data collected in settings like classrooms. This work also advances our broader interest in how interactive and spatial representations of practice can support teachers’ reflective practice and professional development. More generally, these contributions further research at the intersection of education, human-computer interaction, and computer/data science education.”
Q: Are there other people to be credited?
A: “Ph.D. students Edwin Zhao, Elizabeth Metts and Arpit Mathur were key contributors to this work, as well as collaborators at Carnegie Mellon University and Vanderbilt University. Additionally, participating teachers and researchers of the Teaching Amidst Uncertainty project were central to the development of these tools and ideas.”
The articles and tools are available at https://www.interactiongeography.org and https://www.transcriptexplorer.org