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From Asymptomatics to Zombies: Visualization-Based Education of Disease Modeling for Children

Graham Mcneill Orcid Logo, Max Sondag Sondag, Stewart Powell, Phoebe Asplin Orcid Logo, Cagatay Turkay Orcid Logo, Faron Moller Orcid Logo, Daniel Archambault Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Swansea University Authors: Max Sondag Sondag, Stewart Powell, Faron Moller Orcid Logo, Daniel Archambault Orcid Logo

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...

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Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ISBN: 978-1-4503-9421-5/23/04
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 2023
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581573
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62706
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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 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.
Keywords: Disease spread, Visualization, Children, Teaching
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: This work was funded by the UKRI EPSRC Grants EP/V033670/1 and EP/V054236/1.