ButterflyNet:
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Abstract Biology
fieldwork generates a wealth of qualitative and quantitative information, an
unstructured “bag of data” that requires substantial labor to coordinate and
distill. Currently, a gap exists between the field tools used to collect data
and the laboratory tools used to search, analyze, and share that data. The
ButterflyNet system we are building bridges this gap by providing efficient
interfaces for searching, managing, and sharing biology research. We present
two aspects of ButterflyNet: the ability to view field notes presented
alongside photos that are correlated in time, and the ability to share that
view with a colleague.
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Figure 1. Four biologists hike rugged terrain between
remote sites. Technology for field biologists must survive these harsh
requirements. |
Figure 2. The main view shows a notebook page with
temporally-related photographs in a side panel. As the user navigates the digital
notebook using the scrollbar (center, with overlaid visualization),
photographs will appear/disappear depending on how closely they relate to the visible page. |
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