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SINQ – engaging kids in scientific inquiry example: “Why is the poop on fire?”- smoking pile of manure at urban farming project SINQ – online community for guiding kids through scientific inquiry: pose a question, explore resources and answers, form … Continue reading →

how to analyze networks changing over time; show and analyze the changes (node/link changes, growth/contraction, clustering, peaks, comparison); many tools (ManyNets, NetEvViz (NodeXL), TempoVis), apply to real problem applications (Nation of Neighbors, Encyclopedia of Life) TempoVis + EOL: monthly growth; … Continue reading →

Lessons learned from the Nation of Neighbors Nation of Neighbors – online neighborhood crime watch; collaborate with law enforcement more that 500 neighborhoods, 12 of which include law enforcement collaborated with community managers and social scientists to study what made some communities … Continue reading →

node-link visualizations break down at a couple thousand nodes, or particularly dense relationships also want to reduce barrier of entry for novice users and make it simpler for everyone better layouts, alternate visualizations, graph summarization repeating patterns (motifs) exist, motifs … Continue reading →

Lots of activity this morning around the demos and posters. I took a cruise through, but had other work to do, unfortunately.

As usual, the HCIL Symposium has provided a series of really interesting research projects with engaging presentations and a very warm, welcoming vibe. I’m looking forward to tomorrow. There are many things I saw today that I am going to … Continue reading →

signed up early for Twitter, but found she didn’t use it… until she found a Washington Capitals community; back-channel communication with a group; now Twitter is useful if you back-channel, you can reveal the results to those who can’t participate … Continue reading →

how to get casual users to translate for us; for International Children’s Digital Library (5,000 visits a day) MonoTrans: take a phrase in a source language -> machine translation -> native destination language speaker for corrections -> machine translation -> … Continue reading →

collection of “middle-state” artifacts; artifacts created during the process and practice of design green-wiring: modifying a printed circuit board with wires; like the red pen of a literary manuscript Jennifer Freyd – dynamic mental representations – e.g. artificial character drawings; … Continue reading →

textbook illustrations are important to learning, but are largely inaccessible to blind students in Maryland, schools are required by law to make reasonable efforts to provide all instruction materials in accessible media one textbook translated to Braille costs about $30,000 … Continue reading →