Zooming interfaces are cool. This week I have had a chance to see Zoomii in action, a Microsoft Surface, and of course, I use the multitouch zooming of the iphone quite regularly.
Yeah, and we have these cool technologies. I think the WorldWide Telescope could be redeployed in many environments, and I think healthcare is one of those killer applications. We were talking with the National Cancer Institute, and one of the things they’d like to do is take a slice out of the liver while the patient is still on the table and be able to zoom in and zoom out — it’s the same technology.
This was in response to a question on our abilities to make sense of complex data. I am very curious about how futuristic, or should we say modern since they’re here, will help our abilities to manipulate data, visualize it, etc. We have already seen the Google Maps API utilized to build genome browsers, and there is the stuff that Andrew has done. I have had the chance to see some very excellent visualizations, but they tend to have poor UIs and interaction models. That’s where I suspect we are going to see the most innovation in the coming years.
Hiya! I'm the programmer of the genome browser you linked to (thanks btw!), and this whole area of research fascinates me. At present, the size of the dataset (and its massive interconnectivity) is a problem for user interaction -- especially when you are limited to a mouse and keyboard. I think in the short term, we will see applications that are very good and innovative at viewing a subset of the data (ie: we went for more of an overview of the data rather than going down to sequence level). But as multi-touch is becoming ubiquitous (iPhone, Surface, new Mac Pros), gesture based interfaces seem to be on the horizon (Jonny Chung, and other forms), I can't wait to see what people come up with...
I definitely agree, as the amount of data grows visualization will become increasingly important. We are having a go at building an interactive genome browser as part of our Bioinformatics solutions - you can have a look at http://www.clcbio.com/index.php?id=1240
Interfacial phenomena
Zooming interfaces are cool. This week I have had a chance to see Zoomii in action, a Microsoft Surface, and of course, I use the multitouch zooming of the iphone quite regularly.
In an interview with Jon Udell, Kristin Tolle, who works on biomedical computing at Microsoft Research had this to say
This was in response to a question on our abilities to make sense of complex data. I am very curious about how futuristic, or should we say modern since they’re here, will help our abilities to manipulate data, visualize it, etc. We have already seen the Google Maps API utilized to build genome browsers, and there is the stuff that Andrew has done. I have had the chance to see some very excellent visualizations, but they tend to have poor UIs and interaction models. That’s where I suspect we are going to see the most innovation in the coming years.
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