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• First-generation Earth system digital twins, such as the Digital Twin Earth (DTE) for hydrology, create important opportunities for “learning by doing” that will ensure DTEs evolve to provide credible, reliable, and useful information. • Recent DTEs for hydrology demonstrate the complexity of the cyberinfrastructure needed to support the integration of a diversity of high-resolution datasets—often through machine learning techniques— while also providing initial insights into how critical errors in these approaches might be identi!ed. • To remain useful, DTEs will need to be able to continuously evolve—this will require innovations in visualization, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and complementary tools that draw from advances in relevant research communities.
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Illuminated Devices: A Sociotechnical System to Broaden Access to Digital Assistance
User training and support are crucial factors in bridging the digital divide. The Illuminated Devices sociotechnical system, inspired by our experiences providing online support during COVID-19, will provide personal digital tutoring, accessible anywhere, even with limited prior technology experience. System development leverages a human-centered, design-based research approach. The project will culminate in a pilot rollout and evaluation at three community sites.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2122034
- PAR ID:
- 10435261
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning-CSCL 2022
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 587-588
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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