Manisha Gupta

Visualization for UMMA's online image collection

Abstract

As part of the class SI 649- Information Visualization, I worked on a semester long project in which we designed a visualization for the online image database of the University of Michigan Museum of Arts (UMMA) that would engage high school art educators and encourage them to both explore the collection and use the images in their personal lesson plans.

The goal of our visualizations was to quickly give art educators a sense of the art museum’s online collection, to aide their image searches and to support collaboration between art educators. We achieved this by designing a visualization based largely on the concepts of tree-maps and clustering.

Concepts Used

Clustering, Tree-maps, Dynamic Resizing, Refocusing, Filtering, Drag and Drop, Fish-eye View

Team

Manisha Gupta, Winnie Ho, Sarah Raux, Kathryn Stine

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Mock-ups of the proposed visualization:

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