Thank you Maria and Alan, those are great suggestions. A bit more about our project, I see there being two main user gropus right now. One is members of the public that are interested in whales and want to hear some whale song. Another group are scientists from around the world who want to analyze and download data from the archive.
We're making web-based tools to help the scientists analyze this data online (Flash applications that let them zoom in, listen to, tag and analyze data). Another target community for the future is members of the public who we want to recruit to help us tag different parts of the audio. For example, the most challenging thing right now is that only small parts of each recording actually have orca song. Orcalab starts recording as soon as the whales are around so they don't miss anything, but for big parts of the recording, there aren't any vocalizations. We want to try to recruit the public help us find the whale song on these recordings. Maria, that's a great point of giving people a little sample of the audio before having to download it. We're thinking of having a "Tour" link where you can listen to pre-selected bits of audio that have good quality vocalizations on them. Maybe that would help? Those lines are just decorative, but I can see what you mean, they are confusing. I'll take them out. Alan, the graph is definitely confusing, and hides the actual data. We'll move that to the Tour page as well. That's a good point that the secondary nav bar is easily missed, I think I'll just remove it and just put the recordings front and center. Thanks for these thoughts, and I welcome any more comments or suggestions. We have all this great audio and data, and want to make it useful to everyone who is interested. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39115 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
