2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic studies aiming at proper use of scientific visual images
| Project/Area Number |
23300317
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology/History of science and technology
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KARASAWA Kaori 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (50249348)
OSANO Shigetoshi 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (70177210)
SUZUKI Yasuhiro 名古屋大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (50292983)
AKIBA Fumitoshi 名古屋大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (80252401)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 科学技術社会論 / 科学哲学 / 科学画像 / scientific visualization / 科学コミュニケーション / 科学リテラシー / 発見法 / 認識論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
(1) We clarified how pictorial images are used in scientists' practice and what are the functions and limits of them. And then, we applied the findings to a traditional problem of philosophy of science.
(2) We clarified how pictorial images are used in scientific communication and what are the functions and limits of them. Then, we found that art museums have potentiality as a means of scientific communication.
(3) We clarified the psychological and epistemological conditions for the better use of pictorial images both in and outside of scientific communities. Especially, we tried to apply a method of scientific visualization that was originally developed to study cytological responses of flu-infected cells to a big data taken from a totally different area (social psychology) and see whether it is effective as a heuristics to bring about new findings which cannot be noticed by traditional psychological analyses.
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| Free Research Field |
科学哲学・科学技術社会論
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