Short Term Scientific Mission COST-STSM-IC0903-7590 Supporting the Visual Analysis of the Behaviour of Gulls

The aim of the visit was to apply well-designed interactive visualisation techniques to support the analysis of seagull movement data. The research trip was funded by COST (COST-STSM-IC0903-7590). A user-centred approach that involved the use of software prototypes, was used to design and implement interactive visualisation techniques for the exploratory analysis of bird movement data. This process, based on prior giCentre experience of working with users, was guided by IBED’s analytical requirements, framed as ‘tasks ’ established during a number of workshops. Between the workshops, I designed a number of interactive visualisation techniques to help address these analytical tasks and implemented them as prototypes. The techniques implemented in these prototypes were accepted, rejected or refined during subsequent workshops. The result is a collaboratively-designed software application supports IBED's analytical tasks through well-design interactive graphics. Immediate feedback was positive. Subsequent feedback will be elicited in a few weeks ’ time after IBED have been independently using the software to analysis a different (but similar) dataset, for a number of weeks