Graphics enhanced version of this site

EventScope: A Telescience Interface for Internet-Based Education
P. Coppin, M.D. Wagner, and T.E. Team
Presented at the Workshop on Telepresence for Education, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2002.

Jump to: Download | Abstract | Notes | Text Reference | BibTeX Reference

Adobe portable document format (pdf) [715 KB]

Copyright notice: This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

The goal of exploration through telerobotics is to broaden our understanding of the universe. Towards this goal, the EventScope project at Carnegie Mellon University merges educational software and a telescience / telerobotics mission interface for use within classroom settings to provide more direct connections to new information. Answering scientific questions requires mission interaction on a first-person level—for instance, a student can glean a wealth of information by remotely exploring the contours of a rock formation. Traditionally this interaction is limited to only a single user because a robot can be in only one place at one time. EventScope addresses this scalability problem by enabling dynamic interaction with mission information through tools that allow users to navigate independently of the spatio-temporal nature of a robotic expedition. Further, interface elements such as annotations and hotspots allow science educators and scientists to annotate representations of remote sites to convey their expert knowledge to students on a mass scale.

Associated center: FRC
Associated project: EventScope

P. Coppin, M.D. Wagner, and T.E. Team, "EventScope: A Telescience Interface for Internet-Based Education," Presented at the Workshop on Telepresence for Education, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2002.

@incollection{Coppin_2002_3967,
   author = "Peter Coppin and Michael D Wagner and The EventScope Team",
   title = "EventScope: A Telescience Interface for Internet-Based Education",
   booktitle = "Presented at the Workshop on Telepresence for Education, International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
   month = "May",
   year = "2002"
}