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Images for insight: From the research lab to the classroom

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VISUALIZATION FOR EDUCATION cuts across disciplines and across educational levels with many exciting possibilities emerging. In this paper, I express the importance of bringing research visualization tools into classrooms and academic labs. To support points, I use illustrations from The University of Iowa resources and activities and from national curricula innovations sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics). Also presented is an overview of the state of the art in computer graphics for education based on presentations and working groups at an international Computer Graphics and Education conference in Begur, Spain. This overview is organized in terms of current and exciting classroom activities; technically possible, but not prevalent, classroom activities; and the future classroom.

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Brown, J. Images for insight: From the research lab to the classroom. J. Comput. High. Educ. 3, 104–125 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02942600

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