TY - GEN
T1 - Gestures in geology
T2 - International Conference Spatial Cognition 2010
AU - Liben, Lynn S.
AU - Christensen, Adam E.
AU - Kastens, Kim A.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Spatial thinking is an essential part of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), domains that entail external spatial representations such as 2D graphics, 3D models, and-the focus here-gestures. University students (a) read aloud information about the geological concepts of strike and dip, (b) completed strike and dip tasks, and (c) explained these concepts to another student via audio and video. Gestural patterns varied across reading, audio, and video contexts in interaction with participant variables of spatial skill and prior geology coursework. Only novices gestured during reading, interpreted as novices' attempts to aid their own conceptual understanding of new information. All participant groups produced different gestural patterns in audio versus video contexts, suggesting the communicative intent of many gestures.
AB - Spatial thinking is an essential part of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), domains that entail external spatial representations such as 2D graphics, 3D models, and-the focus here-gestures. University students (a) read aloud information about the geological concepts of strike and dip, (b) completed strike and dip tasks, and (c) explained these concepts to another student via audio and video. Gestural patterns varied across reading, audio, and video contexts in interaction with participant variables of spatial skill and prior geology coursework. Only novices gestured during reading, interpreted as novices' attempts to aid their own conceptual understanding of new information. All participant groups produced different gestural patterns in audio versus video contexts, suggesting the communicative intent of many gestures.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957079612
SN - 3642147488
SN - 9783642147487
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 95
EP - 111
BT - Spatial Cognition VII - International Conference Spatial Cognition 2010, Proceedings
Y2 - 15 August 2010 through 19 August 2010
ER -