Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.24
A. Bieryla, S. Hyman
People from all over the United States (and abroad) flocked to the path of totality to witness the Great American Solar Eclipse in 2017. The sentiment was the same for the 2019 and 2020 South American eclipses that passed through Chile and Argentina. While a total solar eclipse is typically thought of as a striking visual phenomenon, it is not the only way to observe one, and for blind or low vision individuals, having an alternate medium to observe an eclipse is a necessity. LightSound is a low-cost, hand-held device that was originally developed for the 2017 North American eclipse. It has a very high-dynamic range sensor that converts light to sound in a process called sonification. The sound can be output to headphones or to a speaker during an event to make the entire event more accessible while capturing the dimming of the Sun in the form of sound. All documentation and software needed to build and use the LightSound are open source and free for download and modification. As the 2023 and 2024 North American solar eclipses approach, we aim to increase the number of LightSounds across the paths of totality so that the experiences can be more inclusive and accessible. In the astronomy community, we are holding a series of workshops through the American Astronomical Society to train new users to build and use the devices, but we hope to expand to a more general audience by connecting with organizations such as libraries, museums, national parks, girl/boy scouts, and others groups who we can help to build the necessary devices for communities and events in need. In addition to eclipses, the LightSound has exciting potential for use as a teaching tool at both K-12 levels and undergraduate levels and for raising awareness about sonification as a powerful and important analysis method in science.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.19
N. Grice
In the past, astronomy was considered to be primarily a visual subject. But times have changed, and the field of astronomy education has evolved to include other senses such as sight, sound and touch. Multisensory themes and methods of instruction have attracted new audiences to learn about topics in STEM. In this paper, I share my experiences in developing adaptations of activities for the Big Astronomy Outreach Toolkit. I begin by exploring examples and strategies of how inexpensive materials can be used to modify or sometimes expand upon activities through universal design, with the goal of reducing or eliminating barriers to participation.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.13
L. Cominsky, A. Riccio, W. Martin, L. Peticolas, B. Mendez, S. Perez, G. Williams, A. Grillo-Hill, J. Valcarcel
NASA's Neurodiversity Network (N3) is a five-year program that has been funded as part of NASA's Science Activation Network. N3's main goal is to provide a pathway to NASA participation and STEM employment for neurodiverse learners, with a focus on those on the autism spectrum. Through the N3 program, we are enabling STEM education for a segment of the population that is significantly underserved through a process in which existing NASA education resources are redesigned with significant input from autistic learners and their instructors. The co-design process occurs primarily in informal environments, including high school summer programs, and camps and activity sessions for middle school students sponsored by the New York Hall of Science. N3 also offers a mentored summer internship program for at least ten neurodiverse high school students each year. Mentoring is provided by NASA Subject Matter Experts, individuals who collectively possess expertise that spans NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
{"title":"NASA'S NEURODIVERSITY NETWORK (N3)","authors":"L. Cominsky, A. Riccio, W. Martin, L. Peticolas, B. Mendez, S. Perez, G. Williams, A. Grillo-Hill, J. Valcarcel","doi":"10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.13","url":null,"abstract":"NASA's Neurodiversity Network (N3) is a five-year program that has been funded as part of NASA's Science Activation Network. N3's main goal is to provide a pathway to NASA participation and STEM employment for neurodiverse learners, with a focus on those on the autism spectrum. Through the N3 program, we are enabling STEM education for a segment of the population that is significantly underserved through a process in which existing NASA education resources are redesigned with significant input from autistic learners and their instructors. The co-design process occurs primarily in informal environments, including high school summer programs, and camps and activity sessions for middle school students sponsored by the New York Hall of Science. N3 also offers a mentored summer internship program for at least ten neurodiverse high school students each year. Mentoring is provided by NASA Subject Matter Experts, individuals who collectively possess expertise that spans NASA's Science Mission Directorate.","PeriodicalId":49602,"journal":{"name":"Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77911478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.14
W. R. Saunders, M. Rice, A. Gagliano
Astro[sound]bites is a bi-weekly, freely-available podcast companion to the popular blog Astrobites.org. The graduate-student co-hosts of astro[sound]bites present Astrobites content, with an emphasis on synthesizing diverse subfields and pursuing topics peripheral to research. Each episode features a "space sound" segment in which we play and discuss an audio clip related to astronomy and astrophysics. Astro[sound]bites conveys recent astronomy research results in an engaging and accessible manner without visual media. As of April 2022, we have published 53 episodes across many streaming platforms, with approximately 200 downloads per episode in 70 countries, totalling over 12,000 downloads. While astronomy content is often conveyed visually, we provide a crucial resource for auditory learning and promote efforts for inclusionary practices in astronomy.
{"title":"ASTRO[SOUND]BITES: AN AUDIO RESOURCE FOR INFORMAL EDUCATION","authors":"W. R. Saunders, M. Rice, A. Gagliano","doi":"10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.14","url":null,"abstract":"Astro[sound]bites is a bi-weekly, freely-available podcast companion to the popular blog Astrobites.org. The graduate-student co-hosts of astro[sound]bites present Astrobites content, with an emphasis on synthesizing diverse subfields and pursuing topics peripheral to research. Each episode features a \"space sound\" segment in which we play and discuss an audio clip related to astronomy and astrophysics. Astro[sound]bites conveys recent astronomy research results in an engaging and accessible manner without visual media. As of April 2022, we have published 53 episodes across many streaming platforms, with approximately 200 downloads per episode in 70 countries, totalling over 12,000 downloads. While astronomy content is often conveyed visually, we provide a crucial resource for auditory learning and promote efforts for inclusionary practices in astronomy.","PeriodicalId":49602,"journal":{"name":"Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83255419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.03
M. Argudo-Fernández
Astronomía Inclusiva (“Inclusive Astronomy” in English) is a multidisciplinary community created in Chile, a country recognised worldwide for the quality of its skies for astronomical observation, which aims to make astronomy an accessible science for everyone. In this contribution, we take a tour of what has motivated us to create this group, mentioning some of the activities we have carried out, and sharing some of the experiences we have learned along the way. Finally, some reflections are made on how we can contribute to creating a welcoming environment in our daily activities.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.01
G. Foran, J. Cooke, J. Hannam
As a blind researcher, I rely entirely on sound to analyse my data and carry out my research program. To this end I am active in a collaboration that is exploring the use of data sonification (converting data into sound) to enhance, validate, and accelerate discovery. The scope of our program is not limited to enabling blind and visually-impaired researchers to contribute to areas of research that were not previously accessible. Rather, we look also to the use of new multi-modal approaches that exploit the properties of sound to address mainstream challenges presented by trends in modern astrophysics. Using ‘real-life’ examples, I describe how we are ex- ploring time-series data, spectra, and multi-dimensional datasets mapped to a variety of sonic characteristics such as pitch, amplitude, waveform, pulse repeat rate, tone quality, and distortion and noise to provide addi- tional information on measurement uncertainties. I discuss the application of data sonification to high redshift galaxy research and to our coordinated multi-wavelength observational program to detect and follow up fast transient events. Finally, I outline current research directions involving touch screen and trackpad approaches to examine scatter-plot (non-linear) data representations, shape-based recognition, and the use of combined weighted harmonics to render the information content in multi-dimensional datasets as sound.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.11
K. Arcand
The nature and complexity of various kinds of astronomical data visualizations can be challenging to communicate with people who are blind or low vision. In consultation with members from blind and low vision communities, we present an overview of 3D print, sonification and visual description projects at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Communications group as well as NASA's Universe of Learning, and how the 3D prints, sonifications, and descriptions are currently being used for our mission and programs. We describe how we can integrate verbal explanations of the scientific phenomena along with descriptions of what the visual viewer was seeing in the presented imagery, sonification or 3D model to create a more accessible, cohesive package. Our proposition is that this process of creating content for audiences who are blind or low-vision can and should be applied to other types of astronomy content and even a wider range of science communication content.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.27
A. Deandra, M. Putra, M. I. Mandasari, C. Kunjaya, D. Herdiwijaya, Aprilia
Astronomy's dependence on visual perception makes it difficult to be accessed by the visually impaired. Nevertheless, there are efforts to communicate astronomy to the visually impaired with the help of auditory perception and tactile perception. Screen reader applications are accessibility tools which help the visually impaired perceive images with the help of words. One of the disadvantages of screen reader is abstract astronomical concepts may be difficult to be recognized, especially for those who are visually impaired since childbirth. In this research, an image sonification program is designed as an alternative to screen reader applications to communicate astronomical images to the visually impaired using shape-approach sonification. The program was written using Python 3.8 programming language. The program is able to sonify shapes automatically and is also responsive to changes and differences in shapes. The result from program is a MIDI file which is then polished and exported using DAW to create music in the form of MP3 file. After a series of evaluation with the help of six people with visual impairment, we found that this method of sonification has potential as an alternative to the accessibility of astronomical images for the visually impaired with sufficient practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.29
T. Makwela, D. Taylor, S. Blyth, S. Allier
Many students are attracted to astronomy due to its inviting nature of spectacular wonders. However, studying astronomy goes beyond these wonders, which poses a challenge to students' knowledge and understanding of basic astronomical phenomena. The University of Cape Town has developed a series of research studies that probe the nature of student difficulties at a fine-grained level, in particular looking into how students conceive of astronomical distances which are beyond immediate human comprehension. The key experimental findings from this study were that as distances increased different modes of thinking were employed to make sense of them. The experimental findings could be explained by the embodied cognition framework which posits that the way we think (all thought) is ultimately grounded in infant sensory-motor experiences. In this case, the thinking template or image schema was suggested to be the "source-path-goal". Having identified the "thinking" framework allows for a research-based construction of learning activities that lead to sense-making. Thus, the notion of the Source-Path-Goal Thinking Template / Image Schema was used to create an activity that would trigger this mode of thinking for large-scale distances. Based on the current experimental findings that can be explained by an "embodied cognition" framework, learning activities were piloted that appear to have had a measure of success.
许多学生被天文学所吸引，因为它吸引人的壮观奇观。然而，天文学的学习超越了这些奇观，这对学生对基本天文现象的认识和理解提出了挑战。开普敦大学(University of Cape Town)开展了一系列研究，从细密的层面探索学生的困难本质，特别是研究学生如何想象人类无法直接理解的天文距离。这项研究的关键实验发现是，随着距离的增加，人们会采用不同的思维模式来理解距离。实验结果可以用具身认知框架来解释，该框架假设我们思考的方式(所有的思考)最终都是基于婴儿的感觉运动经验。在这种情况下，思维模板或形象图式被建议为“源-路径-目标”。在确定了“思考”框架之后，就可以对学习活动进行基于研究的构建，从而产生意义。因此，源-路径-目标思维模板/图像图式的概念被用于创建一个活动，该活动将触发大规模距离的这种思维模式。根据目前的实验结果，可以用“具身认知”框架来解释，学习活动的试点似乎取得了一定程度的成功。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2022.54.17
J. Mora
Nowadays we have different types of dedicated and specialized software with innovative tools such as SalsaJ, which allows us to teach and disseminate astronomy to people with some degree of vision loss, with the aim of getting them to observe and study the different astronomical objects through other senses such as touch. Education is very important and fundamental in order to increase inclusion by focusing the teaching of astronomy on ensuring that visual-impaired children, adolescents and adults have access to quality scientific learning.
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