Mapping Migrations is a collaboration with the Exploratorium that uses data from the TOPP program to create an interactive exhibit that allows museum visitors to explore migratory marine animal trajectories over time.
Data from the TOPP program can be used to characterize a multitude of marine animals behaviors in response to factors such as environmental and biological variables. Visualizations of the marine animals trajectories over a year are accompanied by the ability to highlight the tagging location and sex patterns such that visitors can make meaningful comparisons of these data attributes. The exhibit is currently on display in the life science section of the Exploratorium.
Paper:
Chien-Hsin Hsueh, Jacqueline Chu, Joyce Ma, Jennifer Fraizer, and Kwan-Liu Ma.
Fostering Comparisons: Designing an Interactive Exhibit that Visualizes Marine Animal Behaviors. In proceedings of 2016 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis). 2016, pp. 259-263. pdf
Video:
Introduction
Personnel:
Computer Science, UC Davis
Computer Science, UC Davis
Exploratorium, San Francisco
Exploratorium, San Francisco
Computer Science, UC Davis