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

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astro-ph.IM20206 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.IM20191 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.IM20193 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.IM20188 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…

astro-ph.IM2017

Black Holes and Vacuum Cleaners: Using Metaphor, Relevance, and Inquiry in Labels for Space Images

Lisa F. Smith, Kimberly Kowal Arcand, Benjamin K. Smith +3

This study extended research on the development of explanatory labels for astronomical images for the non-expert lay public. The research questions addressed how labels with leadin…