Human-Computer Interaction in Biodiversity Informatics

Workshop in association with the 22nd annual HCIL Symposium and Open House

Sponsored by NBII and NSF

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/biodiversity/workshop

Plan for the day

talks (with a break in the middle)

lunch (maybe walk?)

panel demos dinner

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the extraordinary variety of all life on Earth - from genes to species to entire ecosystems.

-- Smithsonian Institution Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program

How can we improve interaction with biodiversity information?

Informatics

Facilitate research and management by developing ways to

access biodiversity data integrate

databases of biodiversity information

computational services such as predictive models, analytical, and planning tools

Modified from Wikipedia “Ecoinformatics” entry

Information and problem-centered

The study of interaction between people (users) and computers.

methodologies and processes for designing interfaces

methods for implementing interfaces developing new interfaces and interaction

techniques developing descriptive and predictive models and

theories of interaction

Human-computer interaction Wikipedia “HCI” entry

People and task-centered

HCI in Biodiversity Informatics

reduction of information complexity (spatial, historical, numerical, etc.) for human scales

potential for cross-over with other domains

focus on organisms -- names, attributes, habitats, localities

potential for non-expert users: education, outreach

Missing . . .

data entrysensor netsalgorithmic data miningtext miningsemantic web

Lunch table tomorrow

Biodiversity plants (White, Jacobs)

fungi (Farr)

animals (Allen, Nardi)

multiple (Parr, Shapley, Guimbetrere)

Approaches to biodiversity

Evolution (Guimbetrere, Farr, Shapley, Jacobs)

Ecology and Environment (Parr, Allen, White, Nardi)

Science process problems and tasks data collection (Farr, Jacobs)

data exploration and analysis (Parr, Guimbetrere, White)

education and outreach (Shapley, Allen) cross-cutting (Nardi)

Technology identification (Farr, Jacobs)

information retrieval (White, Allen)

interactive data visualization (Parr, Guimbetrere, Shapley, White)

collaboration (Nardi)

Researcher background Biologist-turned-technologist (Parr, Allen, Farr)

HCI researcher (Nardi, Guimbetrere, Shapley)

Other (White, Jacobs)

Organization of speakers