Abstract

In this article, we report on a video-based field study of an intergenerational family’s enactment of a mathematical object (a torus) in the context of an immersive mathematics exhibition in a science center. To do this, we center interwoven, multi-party mobilities at multiple scales–walking, gesturing, touching, and postural adjustments – as key aspects of how family members co-assemble a local, multi-layered set of meanings for a mathematical object. Drawing on and blending approaches from science and technology studies and interaction analysis we investiage how immersive museum exhibitions can enable particular patterns of visitor mobility and provisionally reconfigure relations among walking, sensing, and knowing. In contrast to what we describe as a sedentarist bias in studies of learning and cognition in museums, we argue that walking and other movements across a wide range of scales are constitutive of visitors’ interpretive accomplishments, rather than mere backdrop to them.

摘要

在本文中，我们报道了在科学中心进行的沉浸式数学展览的背景下，基于视频的跨代家庭对数学对象（圆环）的制定的实地研究。为此，我们将交织的多方活动集中在多个尺度上（步行，手势，触摸和姿势调整），这是家庭成员如何共同为数学对象组合局部，多层含义的关键方面。借鉴和融合科学技术研究和互动分析的方法，我们研究身临其境的博物馆展览如何使参观者能够以特定的方式活动，并临时重新构造行走，感知和知识之间的关系。与我们在博物馆的学习和认知研究中形容为“前卫主义”偏见相反，