1. WHO

2. COMBINED EDUCATIONAL AND TELEPRESENCE INTERFACE FOR ASTEP USING EVENTSCOPE
Presented by
Peter Coppin
Remote Experience and Learning Lab
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry/ Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
WHO

3. EventScope is a public interface for Earth and Planetary Exploration
WHAT IS EVENTSCOPE?
EventScope is a public interface for Earth and Planetary Exploration

4. EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY PUBLIC PLANETARY EXPLORATION?
The ability for a novice to experience the surface of another planet as if they were there
The ability for that user to understand what is going without significant background information
…and later, to affect a mission and impact a device on or around another planet while the mission is in progress

5. WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC PLANETARY EXPLORATION?
USABLE, FUN and EDUCATIONAL
WHAT

6. HOW : USABLE AND FUN : ISSUES [SHOW ARES V IN ES]
Time delay between Earth and Mars
Many more people than robots and
No public user can [currently] control a planetary robot

7. HOW IS EVENTSCOPE EDUCATIONAL?
Participants need “scaffolding”
“Scaffolding” must fit
existing classroom realities and
adhere to state and national standards
[show a-tool]
HOW IS EVENTSCOPE EDUCATIONAL

8. SUMMARY: HOW OUR REMOTE EXPERIENCE PIPELINE WORKS
ROBOT
NASA
DATA
AUTHORING
TOOL
EVENTSCOPE
VIEWER
USER

9. HOW WE DEVELOP EXPERINCES
A LEAD DESIGNER
CREATES A “LOOK AND
FEEL” PROTOTYPE OF
VISUALS AND
INTERACTIVITY
AN EDUCATOR
MAKES AN EDUCATION
FRAMEWORK
SOFTWARE &
ROBOTICS TEAM
MEMBER MAKES NEW
TECHNOLOGY AS
NECCESARY
(2)
INITIAL MEETING
WITH ALL
DISCIPLINES
PRODUCE
DESIGN BASED ON
EXPERIMENTS
BEGIN
ITERATIVE
DEVELOPMENT
TEST ON
STUDENTS
AND
EDUCATORS
AND DEPLOY
IN SCHOOLS
(3)
(4)
BACKGROUND-THE REMOTE EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: These team members work together using the following process to make user friendly and educational remote experience lessons. TEAM BRAINSTORMING (A): The process begins with a brainstorming session containing representatives from each area (A). This is used to describe the education goals, interactivity goals and any changes that might be required in the software. PROTOTYPES (B): Following this, each team member creates a prototype (B). The Educator creates and education outline. This consists of goals, standards addressed, and content mapped onto real data. Simultaneously, the lead designer creates an interactive demo using real data that describes the kinds of potential interactive experiences. The Software/ robotics team members define new requirements for the software based on the needs of the educators and designer. REVIEW AND MERGE (C): Following this, the entire team reviews activities. The lead designer integrates more accurate content into their interactive scene or the educators adds content into interactive templates created by the designer (C). ITERATION (D): Process B and C often requires several iterations (D). This is especially true when a new interaction paradigm is required or new software enhancements are created. TESTING (E): Finally, the software is ready to test. This begins with an in house test where students work on a test bed in the EventScope lab while they are being video taped. This allows the development team to spot and document any usability problems. Testing either leads to more iterations or the lesson is deployed in schools. Once again, the performance is evaluated and iterated until a satisfactory quality level is achieved.
(5)
(1)
(6)
ITERATE AS
NECCESSARY

10. WHO BUILDS EVENTSCOPE? ART Dana Martinelli ROBOTICS Michael Wagner
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Karl Fischer
EDUCATION
Ron McCloskey
PLANETARY SCIENCE
David Crown

11. WHO WORKS WITH EVENTSCOPE?
@ NASA
NASA Goddard
Jet Propulsion Labs
Langley Research Center
@ SCHOOLS
16 regional and national schools
@ CMU
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Robotics Institute

12. ATACAMA 97 TO MARS AND ASTEP
COMPLETES OUR INITIAL GOAL
DEALT WITH SCALABILITY AND INTERACTIVITY ISSUES THROUGH STREAMING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
LINKAGES TO FUTURE CMU EXPEDITIONS
1997INTERACTIVE TV
MANY PASSIVE VIEWERS
2003
GAME LIKE 3D WORLD
WHAT

13. MISSION INTERFACE and E/PO SYNERGY

14. CURRENT THOUGHTS: LAYERS OF INFORMATION
Layers of information access will allow for both reliability and experimentation
SIMPLE FILES
FILES
Ie…FTP SITE
EVENTSCOPE
spectral
pano
Etc..

15. MISSION INTERFACE: WHO
Coppin and EventScope team [McCloskey Wagner, Martinelli and Fischer]
Wagner
Wettergeen

16. MISSION INTERFACE THOUGHTS: WHEN? HOW?
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
EVENTSCOPE WITH SIMPLE ROVER STREAMING [PASSIVE]
ROVER STREAMING
INTEGRATE “TRADITIONAL” INTERFACE WITH EVENTSCOPE ROVER STREAMING INTERFACE
KEEP TRADITIONAL AS BACKUP
“REALITY BROWSER”
ALLOW PEOPLE TO COLLABORATE AND MAKES DECISIONS WITHIN THE INTERFACE
TECHNOLOGY
“TRADITIONAL”
TELE-INTERFACE
ADAPT SYNSYNC INTERFACE,
KEEP IT SIMPLE
ROVER STREAMING
REALITY BROWSER
SUMMER TEACHER TRAINING
SUMMER TEACHER TRAINING
EXPAND USER
BASE
SUMMER TEACHER TRAINING
EXPAND USER
BASE
EDUCATION

17. TEACHING THE TEACHERS TO USE ASTEP REMOTE EXPERIENCES

18. WHAT AND HOW?
STRATEGY: Teach the teachers to teach students through the use of ASTEP remote experiences
Train them to use the Authoring Tool to adapt remote experiences to their specific needs
Leverage ongoing efforts at EventScope
[Authoring Tool, Exchange Portal Efforts, Other Teacher Training Efforts]

19. WHY THIS APROACH? Big bang for buck
By training teachers to join E/PO community, we will not need to finance full E/PO staff from ASTEP. Fortunately we can leverage related work for MER, our Earth Portal Project and our Authoring Tool

20. E/PO: WHO Someone from BIO Someone from GEO Wagner Wettergeem
Coppin and EventScope team

21. [SUMMER] TRAINING PROGRAM
ASTEP SPECIALISTS
[SUMMER] TRAINING PROGRAM
BIO
[DATE] Mid-Semester
Break
[DATE] Final Project Due + Demos
[Date] Select
Final ideas
Final Design
Due
Refine
Ideas
Generate
Design
Proposal
Final
Production
[DATE] Production
Review
GEO
TELEPRESENCE

22. QUESTIONS-DISCUSSION