Capital Award in Support of Early Career Researchers: "Edinburgh Vishub"

该提案提出了一个用于跨学科研究、教学和公众参与的协作数据可视化空间——“Vishub”的想法。这将支持所有学科的高度创新的研究人员集体进行数据驱动研究，并推动界面创新，以更好地参与和理解数据。它将位于贝叶斯中心，该中心拥有来自学术界和企业界的员工，专注于跨学科的转化研究、教育和合作。贝叶斯中心是全校范围内的信息技术转移中心，提供公司孵化和参与空间，特别关注数据科学。成功的研究和参与数据和数据科学需要人类有效的接口来控制、探索和呈现数据和相关的分析过程。我们的项目建立了一个围绕数据科学的世界级实验室的强大潜力，由世界领先的专业知识集合驱动。我们的Vishub将配备最先进的展示，互动和制造设备，为早期职业研究人员（ecr）提供专用设备和空间，以便通过研究，合作，教学和展览来参与他们的数据。该设备将包括支持与数据交互研究的三项关键技术：a)物理化和制造，b)沉浸式显示（AR/VR，大型表面），以及c)触摸和有形输入。我们最初的ecr网络涵盖信息学（机器学习，NLP，文本和数据挖掘，生物信息学）的研究人员，但扩展到生物学，医学，地球科学，数字人文科学，社会科学，艺术和设计，音乐等。Vishub将使ecr能够使用原本昂贵得令人望而却步的设备。除此之外，它还将帮助可视化、人机交互和数据科学领域的研究人员与领域科学家建立新的合作关系。这将刺激可视化技术的进步，使更广泛的研究团体受益。这使得co - i和Bayes中心能够围绕数据可视化和其他方面的接口建立专业知识。我们将提供六个交互式可视化工具包，满足ECR社区的各种需求，支持新形式的数字研究和数据分析。我们强调可以在整个大学的研讨会，演示和定位研究中使用的移动工具包。我们将举办一系列信息活动和研讨会，专门针对整个大学的ecr，以扩大我们的合作者、项目和潜在的资助申请。将分阶段购买设备，以确保建立最合适的工具包，并制定管理获取的包容性战略。我们预计：一个移动增强和虚拟现实研讨会，使研究与多人，在一般的城市环境和其他地方的传统实验室设置。-一个移动物理数据可视化实验室，支持与研究伙伴一起开展尖端数据物理化。-固定物理化实验室，用于更大规模，高端数据物理化和探索数据物理化的新形式。-一个表面互动工作室，支持触摸屏和相关设备的可视化，可以借给合作伙伴进行定位研究。-增强投影套件，允许在墙上进行无缝投影，并通过跟踪设备进行交互-移动触摸墙允许不同配置的单个屏幕，以允许单个项目或大规模可视化。总的来说，这些将为大学大量数据的可视化和探索提供一个核心，扩大我们跨学科和与外部合作伙伴合作的可能性。

This proposal puts forward the idea of a collaborative data visualization space for interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement - the "Vishub". This will support highly-innovative collectives of researchers in all disciplines in their data driven research, as well as driving innovation in interfaces to better engage with and understand data. It will be situated in The Bayes Centre, which hosts staff across academia and businesses with a strong interdisciplinary focus on translational research, education and collaborations. The Bayes Centre is a university-wide hub for Informatics technology transfer, providing company incubation and engagement space, with a special focus on data science. Successful research and engagement with data and data science requires effective interfaces for humans to control, explore, and present data and the associated analytical processes. Our project builds up a strong potential for a world class lab around data science, driven by a world-leading collection of expertise. Our Vishub will be equipped with state-of-the-art display, interaction, and fabrication devices, providing early career researchers (ECRs) with dedicated equipment and space to engage with their data through research, collaboration, teaching, and exhibition. The equipment will include three key technologies that underpin research into interactions with data: a) physicalization and fabrication, b) immersive displays (AR/VR, large surfaces), and c) touch and tangible input. Our initial network of ECRs covers researchers in Informatics (machine learning, NLP, text and data mining, bioinformatics), but extends to biology, medicine, geosciences, digital humanities, social sciences, art and design, music, and more. The Vishub will give ECRs access to otherwise equipment that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive. Beyond this, it will help researchers in visualization, human-computer interaction and data science to establish novel collaborations with domain scientists. This will stimulate advances in visualization techniques that benefit the wider research community. This allows the Co-Is and the Bayes center to build up expertise around interfaces for data visualization and beyond.We will provide six interactive visualization kits addressing a variety of needs in the ECR community, supporting novel forms digital research and data analysis. We emphasise mobile kits that can be used across the university for workshops, demos, and situated research. We will run a set of information events and workshops, targeting specifically ECRs across the university, in order to extend our collective of collaborators, projects, and potential grant applications. Equipment will be bought in stages to make sure the most appropriate kits are built up and develop inclusive strategies for managing access. We forsee: a Mobile Augmented and Virtual Reality workshop, to enable research with multiple people, within the general urban environment and other places outside a traditional lab setting.- a Mobile Physical Data Visualization lab that supports cutting-edge data physicalization to be carried out with research partners.- a Stationary Physicalization lab for larger scale, high-end data physicalization and exploration of novel forms of data physicalization.- a Surface Interaction Studio supporting visualization with touch screens and related devices, that can be lent to partners for situated research.- an Augmented Projection Kit, that allows seamless projection on walls alongside interaction through tracked devices- a Mobile Touch Wall allowing for different configurations of the individual screens to allow for individual projects or large-scale visualizations.Taken together, these will provide a nucleus for the visualization and exploration of the vast amount of data in the University, extending our possibilities for collaboration both across disciplines and with external partners.