Visualization and interaction design for web-based game environment

该项目涉及重新设计Spongelab Interactive的Build-a-Body软件，该软件使用户参与人体解剖学的学习，以纳入大量新获得的遗传数据（例如，与肺癌相关的基因）。该项目的主要计算机科学挑战包括评估可视化技术的组合（例如，热图、网络图）和交互（例如，注释、过滤、转换），以告知该软件的视觉和交互组件的重新设计。这两个组件对用户的体验具有最大的影响（即，享受的数量和理解的深度），并且需要使用适当的最先进的设计框架和技术来仔细设计。 重新设计的软件将相对于其当前版本得到显著增强，确保Build-a-Body将保持竞争力并成为市场上的领先产品。这将为Spongelab Interactive带来直接的经济效益。但从更广泛的意义上说，它也将使该软件的用户受益（例如，学生在高中，本科生物学和护理）和计算机科学领域通过评估国家的最先进的可视化和交互设计框架和技术在商业产品。

This project involves the re-design of Spongelab Interactive's Build-a-Body software, which engages users in learning about human anatomy, to incorporate large volumes of newly acquired genetic data (e.g., genes related to lung cancer). The main computer science challenge for this project includes evaluating a combination of visualization techniques (e.g., heatmap, network diagrams) and interactions (e.g., annotating, filtering, transforming) to inform the re-design of the visual and interactive components of this software. These two components have the greatest effect on the user's experience (i.e., amount of enjoyment and depth of understanding), and need to be designed carefully using appropriate state-of-the-art design frameworks and techniques. The re-designed software will be significantly enhanced relative to its current version, ensuring Build-a-Body will remain competitive and a leading product in the marketplace. This will have direct economic benefits for Spongelab Interactive. In a broader sense though, it will also benefit the users of this software (e.g., students in high-school, undergraduate biology, and nursing) and the field of computer science through evaluating state-of-the-art visualization and interaction design frameworks and techniques in a commercial product.