I am posting this for a Masters student here at Indiana University, Ashish Shedure, who is studying macroscopes - tools that help people envision complex data sets as a whole, enabling them to detect patterns, trends, and outliers, while granting access to myriad details. He is particularly interested in macroscopes that exist as museum interactives and would welcome your input. Feel free to respond to him directly at aashendu@indiana.edu.
"As data visualization tools and techniques grow in stature, the visualization platform to study data and obtain insights is gaining more importance by the day. Macroscopes as defined by Joel de Rosnay (1975) are scientific systems to study the infinitely complex variety of elements, relationships, interactions and combinations so as to understand information, gain insights and facilitate decision-making. Such Macroscopes in the form of interactive displays have been put around the world in various museums as a part of research symposiums. But do such implementations meet their intended purpose?
The answer lies in the study of creating an immersive experience with a combination of engaging hardware and intuitive software that appeals to a wide range of user persona groups from different domains, cultures and ages. As a part of this study research, we would like you to suggest some examples of macroscopes or museum exhibits, data-sets, insights, setups or collaborators which can be a good case study for the research. This will help us brainstorm ideas and explore a variety of already existing museum exhibit references. Thank you."
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Lisel Record
Exhibit Manager
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science (scimaps.org)
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University
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