Journal
2021 IEEE VIS ARTS PROGRAM (VISAP 2021)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 1-10Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VISAP52981.2021.00007
Keywords
Data-driven animation; marine mammals; art-science research; science communication; ocean sciences
Funding
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
- Volgenau Foundation
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-13-1-0808, N00014-17-1-2737]
- National Science Foundation [1656283]
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This paper introduces a creative pipeline integrating physiological and behavioral data from current marine mammal research into data-driven animations using industry tools and custom scripts to enhance scientific insights, public awareness, and conservation outcomes. It also discusses the challenges of unifying disparate datasets and outlines the design process for creating meaningful data visualization tools and animations. Additionally, the paper details the cleaning and processing of raw signals and the impact of animation projects on increasing outreach, engagement, and scientific evidence-driven conservation efforts.
In this paper, we introduce a creative pipeline to incorporate physiological and behavioral data from contemporary marine mammal research into data-driven animations, leveraging functionality from industry tools and custom scripts to promote scientific insights, public awareness, and conservation outcomes. Our framework can flexibly transform data describing animals' orientation, position, heart rate, and swimming stroke rate to control the position, rotation, and behavior of 3D models, to render animations, and to drive data sonification. Additionally, we explore the challenges of unifying disparate datasets gathered by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, and outline our design process for creating meaningful data visualization tools and animations. As part of our pipeline, we clean and process raw acceleration and electrophysiological signals to expedite complex multi-stream data analysis and the identification of critical foraging and escape behaviors. We provide details about four animation projects illustrating marine mammal datasets. These animations, commissioned by scientists to achieve outreach and conservation outcomes, have successfully increased the reach and engagement of the scientific projects they describe. These impactful visualizations help scientists identify behavioral responses to disturbance, increase public awareness of human-caused disturbance, and help build momentum for targeted conservation efforts backed by scientific evidence.
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