2. School of Info. Management & Systems U. C. Berkeley

3. Science, Vol 300, Issue 5626, p 1694, 13 June 2003

5. Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life What we did Findings and Recommendations Visions for the Future

6. Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life What we did Findings and Recommendations Visions for the Future

7. Study Goals Context Value Usability Challenges

8. Study Goals Understand how teachers currently teach about the evolutionary relationships between organisms Determine how future software might facilitate common teaching tasks Identify usability challenges

9. Methods Talk with People Examine Existing Visualizations

11. From TaxonTree (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/biodiversity/

12. From http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/TreeofLife/hyperbolic.php

14. Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life What we did Findings and Recommendations Visions for the Future

15. Key Findings & Recommendations

16. A GAP between research and teaching The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key The Tree’s history serves learning Build bridges to tree-thinking

17. “This is scientific information by scientists for scientists.” –High school teacher

18. Crossing the Gap

19. Key Findings & Recommendations A GAP between research and teaching The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key The Tree’s history serves learning Build bridges to tree-thinking

23. Key Findings & Recommendations A GAP between research and teaching The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key The Tree’s history serves learning Build bridges to tree-thinking

24. Key Findings & Recommendations A GAP between research and teaching The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key The Tree’s history serves learning Build bridges to tree-thinking

25. Common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs Common ancestor of humans and dinosaurs Evolutionary Relationships

26. ……..Progress! The Star!! It’s all about Me! time

27. Node flip movie

29. Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life What we did Findings and Recommendations Visions for the Future

30. Our Clients CIPRES outreach Tree of Life web project HCIL biodiversity information visualization Ed experts at UCMP and University of Pittsburgh

31. Visions for the Future User-centered design and development A biologically meaningful index to biological information A public mental map of the tree of life

32. Visions for the Future User-centered design and development A biologically meaningful index to biological information A public mental map of the tree of life

33. Visions for the Future User-centered design and development A biologically meaningful index to biological information A public mental map of the tree of life

34. A big THANK YOU!! The CIPRES Project www.phylo.org Advisors Nancy Van House and Brent Mishler Our participants  Cynthia Parr at HCIL  Kim Rathbun Adrian Barnett  UCMP This work is funded by the CIPRES project BUILDING THE TREE OF LIFE: A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics Part of the NSF Information Technology Research program