wikiRivers

wikiRivers is an interdisciplinary research project aimed at exploiting digital technologies to enable effective communication of river water levels.

Summary: By integrating innovative approaches, knowledge and skill base from the computer sciences, environmental sciences and social sciences, we are developing ways to communicate effectively relatively complicated time series data from a wide range of different places to different interest groups. We focus on the portrayal of real-time fluctuations of river water levels and develop techniques to disseminate such data to the public using multi-modal presentations (natural language text, maps and graphs). Providing this sort of information is one of the key objectives of the environmental agency we work with on this; yet, technological advances are required to allow timely display of this kind of information and it to be utilisable for different interest groups. Although working with one specific agency, the development of this principle is generic and can lead to major changes in the way that time series data is being portrayed to the public.

Research focus:

Monitoring, forecasting and communicating location-specific fluctuations in river water level.

Overall challenge:

Exploiting digital technologies to enable effective communication of river water levels.

Objectives:

Develop techniques to disseminate river water level data to public using multi-modal presentations (natural language text, maps and graphs).

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