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Responses to the pre-project and post-project questionnaires Both (last time) Post (last time) Pre (last time) 24 (9) 32 (12) 41 (19) Visionair Visitors
Responses to the pre-project and post-project questionnaires
Both (last time) Post (last time) Pre (last time) 24 (9) 32 (12) 41
(19) Visionair Visitors 9 (4) 14 (5) 13 (11) Visionair Host
Lab
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Motivation component Includes the following reasons for
participating in the VISIONAIR project: 1.Promote my professional
development 2.Be part of world-wide professional collaboration
3.Learn about innovative visualization technologies 4.Learn about
the technical content 5.Learn about the academic and practical
research 6.Interest in sharing knowledge 7.Interest in enhancing
company product portfolio
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Expectations: pre-project questionnaire Includes the following
reasons for participating in the VISIONAIR project: 1.Study and
practice the technology or the system 2.Learn about the
organization university and/or management of the laboratory
3.Initiate professional collaboration at the academic level
4.Initiate professional collaboration at the industrial level
5.Initiate professional collaboration at the technological level
6.Collaborate in writing proposals and future publications
Preliminary Qualitative Analysis Examine the effect of the TNA
visits on and contribution to the participants
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Preliminary Qualitative Comparison Preliminary Qualitative
Comparison Pre:Pre: Why did you choose to apply? Post: Strongly
agreePost: Did the training met your requirements and needs?
Strongly agree Explain: improving (5) Because I'm interested in
improving my international research background advanced in the
knowledge found limits learned also increased our knowledge about
(5) We have advanced in the knowledge of the different graphics
engines used in CAVE facilities. We have found limits both in
UNITY-middleVR and XVR (graphic engines). We have learned also
different cluster organizations for CAVE rendering. We have
increased our knowledge about eye-tracking devices.
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Preliminary Qualitative Comparison Preliminary Qualitative
Comparison Pre:Pre: Why did you choose to apply? Post: Strongly
agreePost: Did the training meet your requirements and needs?
Strongly agree Explain: opportunity to do interdisciplinary and
international research (18) I found it a great opportunity to do
interdisciplinary and international research interdisciplinary
approach (18) Good field for interdisciplinary approach.
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Preliminary Qualitative Comparison Preliminary Qualitative
Comparison Pre:Pre: Why did you choose to apply? Post: Strongly
agreePost: Did the training met your requirements and needs?
Strongly agree Explain: (15) My research work on visualization
expressions which students use in virtual science fair projects
just started and I am very thankful for any kind of help and
support of colleagues in that field. (15) I was trained to use the
OPM methodology. We had great and deep project discussions, I got
very useful informations and critical suggestions - very
helpful.
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Contribution to Participants
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Response Examples VISIONAIR host Pre (date)Post (date) ITIA-CNR
Interested in learning about the technical content discussed in the
specific laboratory. I want to learn more and apply VR, AR
facilities in early stages of design (5/12/2013). I have to
implement VR/AR facilities to make my environments immersive, and
unfortunately we do not have any of them in TU Delftit was so hard
for me to have all the necessary facilities in one room (EEG
recording facilities with VR/AR facilities). In the lab of ITIA-CNR
with help of Visionair it finally happened (31/12/2013). Salford
ThinkLab Learning about the academic and practical research
conducted in the specific laboratory is the most important, because
I can enhance my technical knowledge in many other ways, but
getting to know the people and the work at a specific laboratory is
a singular opportunity that is unique to this project(30/6/2013). I
was able to see how work is done in a leading research laboratory
on visualization and interaction technologies, and discuss ideas
with researchers working there (25/10/2013). ESML Be part of
world-wide professional development effort There is a very
successful network/collaboration that most likely will lead to
share publications, funding and research(12/06/2013).
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Response Examples VISIONAI R host Pre (date)Post (date)
ITIA-CNR Interested in learning about the technical content
discussed in the specific laboratory. I want to learn more and
apply VR, AR facilities in early stages of design (5/12/2013). I
have to implement VR/AR facilities to make my environments
immersive, and unfortunately we do not have any of them in TU
Delftit was so hard for me to have all the necessary facilities in
one room (EEG recording facilities with VR/AR facilities). In the
lab of ITIA-CNR with help of Visionair it finally happened
(31/12/2013). Salford ThinkLab Learning about the academic and
practical research conducted in the specific laboratory is the most
important, because I can enhance my technical knowledge in many
other ways, but getting to know the people and the work at a
specific laboratory is a singular opportunity that is unique to
this project(30/6/2013). I was able to see how work is done in a
leading research laboratory on visualization and interaction
technologies, and discuss ideas with researchers working there
(25/10/2013). ESML Be part of world-wide professional development
effort There is a very successful network/collaboration that most
likely will lead to share publications, funding and
research(12/06/2013).
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Response Examples VISIONAI R host Pre (date)Post (date)
ITIA-CNR Interested in learning about the technical content
discussed in the specific laboratory. I want to learn more and
apply VR, AR facilities in early stages of design (5/12/2013). I
have to implement VR/AR facilities to make my environments
immersive, and unfortunately we do not have any of them in TU
Delftit was so hard for me to have all the necessary facilities in
one room (EEG recording facilities with VR/AR facilities). In the
lab of ITIA-CNR with help of Visionair it finally happened
(31/12/2013). Salford ThinkLab Learning about the academic and
practical research conducted in the specific laboratory is the most
important, because I can enhance my technical knowledge in many
other ways, but getting to know the people and the work at a
specific laboratory is a singular opportunity that is unique to
this project(30/6/2013). I was able to see how work is done in a
leading research laboratory on visualization and interaction
technologies, and discuss ideas with researchers working there
(25/10/2013). ESML Be part of world-wide professional development
effort There is a very successful network/collaboration that most
likely will lead to share publications, funding and
research(12/06/2013).
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Response Examples VISIONAIR host Pre (date)Post (date) ITIA-CNR
Interested in learning about the technical content discussed in the
specific laboratory. I want to learn more and apply VR, AR
facilities in early stages of design. (5/12/2013). I have to
implement VR/AR facilities to make my environments immersive, and
unfortunately we do not have any of them in TU Delftit was so hard
for me to have all the necessary facilities in one room (EEG
recording facilities with VR/AR facilities). In the lab of ITIA-CNR
with help of Visionair it finally happened (31/12/2013). Salford
ThinkLab Learning about the academic and practical research
conducted in the specific laboratory is the most important, because
I can enhance my technical knowledge in many other ways, but
getting to know the people and the work at a specific laboratory is
a singular opportunity that is unique to this project. (30/6/2013).
I was able to see how work is done in a leading research laboratory
on visualization and interaction technologies, and discuss ideas
with researchers working there. (25/10/2013). ESML Be part of
world-wide professional development effort There is a very
successful network/collaboration that most likely will lead to
shared publications, funding and research(12/06/2013).
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Initial conclusions & limitations Initial conclusions: The
preliminary qualitative analysis indicates that the host labs meet
the expectations of the visitors. Limitation: Not all labs and
visitors filled both pre- and post-questionnaires. Some did not
even do one. Proposal: TNA cannot be considered complete until both
questionnaires are done. This is VISIONNAIRs policy but
unfortunately it is not enforced strictly enough.
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Example of a TNA Visit Proposer : Dr. Gabriela Jonas-Ahrend,
faculty of physics education at the Technische Universitaet
Dortmund Visited laboratory: Enterpise Systems Modeling Laboratory
(ESML), Technion, Haifa, Israel Visit Dates: 11 November to 15
November, 2012 Project 74: Using Visualization Analysis for
Evaluating Students' Virtual Science Fairs Outcomes
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Example of a TNA Visit cont. Science fair is an instance of the
PBL method Students are responsible for: choosing the topic for
their projects working on their own experiment or science project
presenting it to their peers at school A new type of science fair
is the virtual science fair, where e-mentors help and support
students online with their science projects (Jonas-Ahrend, 2013).
Background - Science Fair
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Example of a TNA Visit cont. To study how to analyse visual
expressions which students use in virtual science fair projects To
learn how to model the e-mentoring and the virtual science fairs'
processes using OPM a conceptual modelling methodology To explore
additional ways to foster students' scientific literacy and
motivation Goals of the Project
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Example of a TNA Visit cont. An OPM model that represents the
science fair project's system was constructed The visit ended with
a decision to continue the joint research activities Visit
Outcomes
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Example of a TNA Visit Cont. Example of the OPM Model
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Example of a TNA Visit Cont. Example of the OPM Model
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Example of a TNA Visit Cont. Feedback from the Visitor I
learned a lot about research methods (qualitative and quantitative)
and about the OPM methodology and how to apply those to my project
"science fair" The modelling process helped me to get new insights
into the project management, about the different aspects in the
project environment, and about the involved people and their
different perspectivesmost of all about valuable international
collaboration in many ways.