January 2007 - July 2011
Pact for Research and Innovation of the Competition Fond 2006 of the Leibniz-Association, Budget resources of KMRC
Visualizations are often used to enhance comprehension of complex and dynamic scientific content. It is, however, to a certain degree unclear what kind of visualization (e.g., dynamic vs. static) is most helpful under certain conditions.
Accordingly, a goal of this project was to investigate the instructional effectiveness of dynamic visualizations (i.e. animations) compared to static visualizations in illustrating dynamic scientific content – more precisely, in demonstrating the physical principles underlying fish locomotion.
Consequently, we considered learning characteristics and strategies occurring during learning with the help of such visualizations on the one hand and, moreover, the influence of different design principles of dynamic and static visualizations – also with respect to different learning objectives.
The doctoral project by Tim Kühl was part of the project "Resource-Adaptive Design of Visualizations for Supporting the Comprehension of Complex Dynamics in the Natural Sciences".
