Media Workshop Series “Brain and Mind” Science Education for Elementary and Junior high school students

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  • Ikeda Masami
    Faculty of Human Life, Jumonji University
  • Watanabe Junji
    NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  • Ueda Sachiyo
    Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University
  • Yoshida Shigeo
    Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
  • Kayahara Takuro
    Faculty of Project Design, Miyagi University
  • Kitazaki Michiteru
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

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  • メディアワークショップ　これからの知覚心理学教育を考える―小・中学生を対象とした心理学実験ワークショップを通して―
  • メディア ワークショップ コレカラ ノ チカク シンリガク キョウイク オ カンガエル : ショウ ・ チュウガクセイ オ タイショウ ト シタ シンリガク ジッケン ワークショップ オ トオシテ

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In science education, it is crucial to create teaching materials that are directly linked to students' individual experiences. On “The Japanese Psychonomic Society Committee for Developing Teaching Materials for High School Students,” using computer graphics technology, we developed a visualization system called “Face Homunculus Viewer” (FHV) that provides an opportunity for students to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between brains and minds. Additionally, we conducted a workshop on human touch perception using FHV. In the workshop, we defined the two-point discrimination threshold of touch as “tactile acuity,” and students measured their tactile acuity with the methods used in psychological experiments. Our contributions are the development of an interactive system for visualizing differences in tactile acuities between bodily sites within each individual and differences between individuals. We believe that this study will indicate a new direction in science education in which computer graphics can be applied.

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