open access

https://doi.org/10.14943/53157

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/47777

Study of the Relationship between the Visitor's Feeling Changes and the Design of Science Cafe : Verifying the Importance of the Real Experience on Science Communication through an Experiment of Bringing in Acutual "Slime Mold" into the Venue of an Event

日本語

text mining methods

2011-12

北海道大学 高等教育推進機構 高等教育研究部 科学技術コミュニケーション教育研究部門（CoSTEP）

Japanese Journal of Science Communication

10

16-32

This article shows that communication in the free zone of the Science Cafe is improved if visitors are able to experience the actual research object, an abstract entity referred to as knowledge. This Science Cafe was designed to promote the use of "slime mold" in a petri dish as a communication tool. By using a survey analysis, we showed that there was a correlation between the visitors' behavior toward the petri dish and satisfaction from the cafe. Further, by using statistical methods including text mining, we analyzed the correlation among visitors' prior knowledge, the changes they experienced, and so on. Through their steps, we could demonstrate the novel method to minutely design and evaluate Science Cafe. Accordingly, it was clear that real experience is very effective in scientific communication, and we suggest an original methodology covering scientific communication.

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1881-8390