Improving Collaborative Visualization of Structural Biology
7th International Symposium on Visual Computing — 2011
Structural biology is the study of how molecular shape, chemistry
and physics connect to biological function. This work is inherently
multidisciplinary and co-located group discussions are a key part of the
work as participants need to refer to and study visualizations of the
molecule’s shape and properties. In this paper, we present the design and
initial assessment of CollabMOL, a collaborative molecular visualization
tool specifically designed to support small to medium size groups working
with a large stereo display. We present a task analysis for co-located
collaborative work in structural biology in which we find shortcomings in
existing practice as well as key requirements of an appropriate solution.
In this paper we present our design of this solution and an observation
based user study to validate its effectiveness. Our design incorporates
large stereo display support, commodity input devices and displays, and
an extension to an existing molecular visualization tool.
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BibTex references
@InProceedings{BPGMG11, author = "Bryden, Aaron and Phillips Jr., George and Griguer, Yoram and Moxon, Jordan and Gleicher, Michael", title = "Improving Collaborative Visualization of Structural Biology", booktitle = "7th International Symposium on Visual Computing", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", year = "2011", publisher = "Springer", ee = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2045167", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-24028-7_48", url = "http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Papers/2011/BPGMG11" }