The 3rd Symposium on Universal Design for Astronomy Education
with Workshops for Educational Material Development

Date and Location

Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25: Large Seminar Room
Presentation sessions open to the public (Japanese with English translation) and
Hands-on Workshops for registered participants (English and Japanese)

Monday, September 26: Conference Room at Cosmos Lodge
Astronomy for Inclusion Workshop – international cooperation (English)

• Access to Mitaka Campus
• Mitaka Campus Map
  The Large Seminar Room is located on the 1st floor of the Subaru Building (W1), and the Conference Room is located on the 1st floor of the Cosmos Lodge (N1).

Background and Objectives

To date, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) Universal Design research group has hosted two previous symposiums on equity and inclusion - in 2010 and 2013. In each conference, over 120 participants gathered to present Japanese activities focused on using astronomy for equity and inclusion. The first two editions consisted mostly of lectures. This third edition will take a more hands-on approach, with many workshops taking place. The participants will not only watch or listen to lectures, but participate in a "sharing space" that will provide individual practice and experience. The goal of the selected workshops is to exchange resources, activities, and information among participants, so that after the conference, each participant should be able to implement his/her activities with the resources learned - in other words, the conference will train participants who will disseminate Universal Design Astronomy beyond the conference borders.
Go to the Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium / Proceedings of the 2013 Symposium (Japanese only)

In line with the underlying ideas of active learning, low cost, and resource sharing, the IAU Office of Astronomy Outreach (OAO), located at NAOJ Mitaka Campus, joined the project as co-host. Using the OAO international network, the educational materials introduced at the workshops will be disseminated to our neighboring countries. The international participants will work as "ambassadors." . Additionally, the resources and materials featured during the conference will be sent to the IAU Division C Commission C1 Working Group (WG) 3 “Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion” and shared on the website as teaching resources.

• Download the brochure

Program

Day 1: Saturday, September 24

9:15	Start Registration
10:00 (10 min.)	Opening / Shin Mingeshige (Kyoto University)
10:10 (25+5 min.)	Astronomy for Inclusion (Invited Talk) / Amelia Ortiz-Gil (Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia)
10:40 (15+5 min.)	Inclusivity at NAOJ Mitaka Campus / Kumiko Usuda-Sato (NAOJ)
11:00 (15+5 min.)	Various Methods for People with Disabilities to Operate PCs – How to Increase Simple Operations at Low Cost / Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata University)
11:20 (15+5 min.)	Data Recognition Using Sounds – Sound-based Data-plotting Program “Splot” – / Shin’ichiro Uno (Nihon Fukushi University)
10:40 (15 min.)	Break
11:55 (25+5 min.)	Reasonable Accommodation for Students with Disabilities using ICT (Invited Talk) / Takeo Kondo (The University of Tokyo)
12:05 (25+5 min.)	Niko Niko Tomato – Do Whatever We Can Do, Create Solutions for What We Cannot Do (Invited Talk) / Emi Takaya (Kyoto University Hospital)
12:55 (65 min.)	Lunch
14:00 (15 min.)	Short Assembly, Move to a Location of each Workshop
14:15 (60 min.)	Group Workshop I
15:15 (15 min.)	Break, Move to a Location of each Workshop
15:30 (60 min.)	Group Workshop II
16:30 (15 min.)	Break, Move to a Location of each Workshop
16:45 (30 min.)	Discussion at Large Seminar Room (Japanese) and at Seminar Room for Graduate Students (English)
18:00 (120 min.)	Banquet at Large Seminar Room

Day 2: Sunday, September 25

9:00	Start Registration
9:30 (10 min.)	Opening / Shin Mingeshige (Kyoto University)
9:40 (25+5 min.)	Multimodal Outreach to Enrich the Field of Astronomy (Invited Talk) / Wanda Diaz-Merced (IAU Astronomy for Development)
10:10 (15+5 min.)	Virtual Planetarium Plan for the Blind with a Robot Arm - Touch and Recognize the Entire World of Light with a Robot Arm - / Sadao Hasegawa (Helen Keller System Project, Ouunkai) and Ichiro Narimatsu (Dokusho Kobo Inc.)
10:30 (15+5 min.)	Astronomy Outreach for the Blind and Vision Impaired using Tactile Galaxy Images / Nicolas Jean Bonne (University of Portsmouth)
10:50 (15+5 min.)	Astronomy Class at a Hospital / Masatoshi Ichihosi (Tenpla)
11:10 (15 min.)	Break
11:25 (25+5 min.)	The Frontier of the Search for Extra-solar Planets (Invited Talk) / Bun’ei Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
11:55 (25+5 min.)	Creating a New Definition of Disability in the Universe - The blind may have a social disadvantage but can see beyond the sense of vision. (Invited Talk) / Kojiro Hirose (National Museum of Ethnology)
12:25 (60 min.)	Group Photo and Lunch
13:25 (35 min.)	Self-guided Tour of Visitorsʻ Area (Optional)
14:00 (15 min.)	Short Assembly, Move to a Location of each Workshop
14:15 (60 min.)	Group Workshop III
15:15 (15 min.)	Break, Move to a Location of each Workshop
15:30 (60 min.)	Group Workshop IV
16:30 (15 min.)	Break, Move to a Location of each Workshop
16:45 (30 min.)	Discussion at Large Seminar Room (Japanese) and at Seminar Room for Graduate Students (English)
17:15 (15 min.)	Closing

• See Bios of the Invited Speakers
• See Abstracts of the Talks

On the first and second day simultaneous English translation is available for all talks in Japanese.
Japanese translation is available for invited talks in English.
Some workshops have English translation (see the workshops section for details)

Special Exhibition and Poster Presentation on Day 1 and 2

• Special Exhibition
  Providing Education and Entertainment with “Dokodemo Dome” (Dome at any place), the Dome-shaped Display / Minoru Yamada
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• Poster presentation
  Teaching Resources Using KAGUYA Data / Takuya Ohkawa (ISAS/JAXA)

Day 3: Monday, September 26, 9:00 – 16:50

• International session with “ambassadors” from foreign countries

9:00 (15+5 min.)	Recap of the previous two days of the symposium: lessons and activities / Kumiko Usuda-Sato & Shin Mineshige
	Summary of what to expect from Day 3 - international sessions / Lina Canas
9:20 (32+8 min.)	A Kit of Astronomical Resources for All (Invited Talk) / Amelia Ortiz-Gil
10:00 (32+8 min.)	Multimodal Outreach to Enrich the Field of Astronomy (Invited Talk) / Wanda Diaz-Merced
10:40 (20 min.)	Break
11:00 (45 min.)	Short talks "The Struggle for Support for Starting an Inclusion Program" Part I / 10min talk by ambassadors
	Samir Dhurde (10+5min.)
	Seo-gu Lee (10+5min.)
	Mei-Yin Chou (10+5min.)
11:45 (55 min.)	Lunch at Canteen in the Cosmos Lodge
12:40 (60 min.)	Short talks "The Struggle for Support for Starting an Inclusion Program" Part II / 10min talk by ambassadors
	Stephanie Tumampos (10+5min.)
	Yudhiakto Pramudya (10+5min.)
	Quang Nguen Luong (10+5min.)
	(interventions from Skype participants)
13:40 (15+5 min.)	Promoting Participation of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Audiences in Astronomy Classroom and Workshop (Special Talk) / Yayoi Mashimo
14:00 (10 min.)	Break
14:10 (60 min.)	Workshop "Plan an Inclusion Program in Your Country"
15:10 (20 min.)	Break
15:30 (60 min.)	Workshop "Inclusion Activities and Resources"
16:30 (30 min.)	Final Remarks and the Road Ahead / Shin Mineshige, Kumiko Usuda-Sato, Lina Canas, Amelia Ortiz-Gil, Wanda Diaz-Merced

Workshops

Eight (8) workshops are provided on the first 2 days. English translation is provided at the following workshops. Some last 60 minutes and others last 120 minutes.
See the abstracts for the workshops in the PDF file or the text file

Day 1

• Choice1: [A3] "Space Arc" Workshop (120 minutes)
• Choice2: [A5] Make the Face of an Alien (120 minutes)
• Choice3: [A4] Touch the Constellations (60 minutes) + [A6] Make Teaching Kits: The Phases of the Moon, the Motion of Mars, and Other Subjects in Handmade Materials (60 minutes)

Day 2

• Choice1: [B4] Are There Living Beings in Space? Experience Astrobiology through Your Sense of Touch (60 minutes) + [B7] Making a Tactile Planetarium from Low Cost Materials (60 minutes)
• Choice2: [B5] Tactile Astronomy (60 minutes) + [B7] Making a Tactile Planetarium from Low Cost Materials (60 minutes)
• Choice3: [B8] Exploring the Universe Led by Sign Language Peoples (120 minutes)

Registration

Please download the registration form, fill in your information, and e-mail it to ud2016*at*prcml.mtk.nao.ac.jp (replace *at* with the “at” symbol) as a PLAIN TEXT (.txt) file.

Registration: 1,000 JPY (about 10 USD @ 1 USD ≈ 100 JPY) per person
Banquet: 3,000 JPY (about 30 USD) per person

Registration is closed.