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most citedAesthetics and Astronomy: Studying the public's perception and understanding of non-traditional imagery from space

19 citations · 62 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.ed-ph2024★ 6 cited

A Universe of Sound: Processing NASA Data into Sonifications to Explore Participant Response

Kimberly K. Arcand, Jessica S. Schonhut-Stasik, Sarah G. Kane +5

Historically, astronomy has prioritized visuals to present information, with scientists and communicators overlooking the critical need to communicate astrophysics with blind or lo…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

Holding the Cosmos in Your Hand: Developing 3D Modeling and Printing Pipelines for Communications and Research

Kimberly Kowal Arcand, Sara Rose Price, Megan Watzke

Three-dimensional (3D) visualization has opened up a Universe of possible scientific data representations. 3D printing has the potential to make seemingly abstract and esoteric dat…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Making the Case for Visualization

Robert Hurt, Ryan Wyatt, Mark Subbarao +4

Visual representation of information is a fundamental tool for advancing our understanding of science. It enables the research community to extract new knowledge from complex datas…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 3 cited

The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics -- Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields

Anamaria Berea, Kathryn Denning, Monica Vidaurri +5

In this paper we showcase the importance of understanding and measuring interdisciplinarity and other -disciplinarity concepts for all scientists, the role social sciences have his…

astro-ph.IM2019

Touching the stars: improving NASA 3D printed data sets with blind and visually impaired audiences

Kimberly Kowal Arcand, April Jubett, Megan Watzke +3

Astronomy has been an inherently visual area of science for millenia, yet a majority of its significant discoveries take place in wavelengths beyond human vision. There are many pe…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Walking Through an Exploded Star: Rendering Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A into Virtual Reality

Kimberly K. Arcand, Elaine Jiang, Sara Price +3

NASA and other astrophysical data of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant have been rendered into a three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) program, the fir…