Our new video describes the results of a two week research visit originally taken in 2011 where Aidan worked with bird ecologists to design and implement visualisation techniques to understand bird behaviour. GPS attached to gulls allowed Aidan and the ecologists to track and visualize the birds' movements through time and space. The work was funded by COST-Move and resulted in a visualization tool that the ecologists continue to use today.
New video: Historical migration in Ireland (or how OD maps work)
Our new video describes how OD maps work, using historical internal Irish Migration as an example. OD maps are designed for showing flows between places and have some advantages over some other representations. This video explains builds on joint work with Mary Kelly from the University of Ireland, Maynooth showing how new forms of cartography provide insight into historical migration.
giCentre at EnvirVis workshop
Aidan attended the EnvirVis workshop at Eurovis 2013 in Leipzig and presented joint work with Emiel van Loon entitled Visual analytics for exploring changes in biodiversity. Andrea Kölzsch presented joint work with us - Visualisation design for representing bird migration tracks in time and space. This work was the result of her recent extended research visit to the giCentre as part of the COST Move initiative.