ChronoZoom Prototype for Museums

  • Alexander Zenchenko | MSR/Moscow State University

ChronoZoom is an open-source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. Students, teachers and researchers can collaborate through ChronoZoom by sharing information via data, tours and media. Simple authoring of timelines with mixed media and data inside ChronoZoom make it easy for users to create and share their own timelines.

During his internship Alexander created a proof of concept for using ChronoZoom as an interactive exhibit in a museum environment. He collaborated with the MOHAI and SAM in Seattle. Using ChronoZoom, Alexander built a tool that can be easily deployed and used in museums as an exhibit. The core difference between the museum experience and the general public use of ChronoZoom is an offline version of the tool with museum specific features, such as restricted access mode, auto playing, navigation and other. Alexander will discuss his process and demonstrate his prototype during this talk.

Speaker Details

Alexander Zenchenko is a graduate student of Moscow State University. He finished his masters in Computer Science in June 2013. His research interests are building interactive visualizations of data which serve the needs of a target audience. Alexander has worked on ChronoZoom with the others from Moscow State University for the past two years. He also worked on FetchClimate 2 where he was working on visualizations of climate data. FetchClimate’s browser based prediction model can be used by climate scientist for research or by a skier for finding the best vacation spot. Alexander studied quantum cryptography during his undergraduate work also at Moscow State University.

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      Alexander Zenchenko

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Series: Microsoft Research Talks