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School of Info. Management & SystemsU. C. Berkeley
Science, Vol 300, Issue 5626, p 1694, 13 June 2003
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Study Goals
• Context
• Value
• Usability Challenges
Study Goals
• Understand how teachers currently teach about the evolutionary relationships between organisms
• Determine how future software might facilitate common teaching tasks
• Identify usability challenges
Methods
• Talk with People
• Examine Existing Visualizations
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Key Findings & Recommendations
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
“This is scientific information by scientists for scientists.”
–High school teacher
Crossing the Gap
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
Common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs
Common ancestor of humans and
dinosaurs
Evolutionary Relationships
……..Progress! The Star!! It’s all about Me!
tim
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Node flip movie
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Our Clients
• CIPRES outreach• Tree of Life web project• HCIL biodiversity information visualization• Ed experts at UCMP and University of Pittsburgh
Visions for the Future
• User-centered design and development
• A biologically meaningful index to
biological information
• A public mental map of the tree of life
Visions for the Future
• User-centered design and development
• A biologically meaningful index to
biological information
• A public mental map of the tree of life
Visions for the Future
• User-centered design and development
• A biologically meaningful index to
biological information
• A public mental map of the tree of life
A big THANK YOU!!
The CIPRES Project www.phylo.org Advisors Nancy Van House and Brent Mishler
Our participants Cynthia Parr at HCIL Kim Rathbun Adrian Barnett UCMP
This work is funded by the CIPRES projectBUILDING THE TREE OF LIFE: A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics
Part of the NSF Information Technology Research program