Micro-trajectories of scientific thinking and collaboration in elementary students interacting with a videogame Título: Micro-trayectorias de pensamiento científico y colaboración en estudiantes de primaria interactuando con un videojuego Alt Title / Título alternativo: [en]: Micro-trajectories of scientific thinking and collaboration in elementary students interacting with a videogame [es]: Micro-trayectorias de pensamiento científico y colaboración en estudiantes de primaria interactuando con un videojuego

Based on various experiences in developing Geodata Infrastructures (GDIs) for scientific applications, this article proposes the concept of a Scientific GDI that can be used by scientists in environmental and earth sciences to share and disseminate their research results and related analysis methods. Scientific GDI is understood as an approach to tackle the science case in Digital Earth and to further enhance e-science for environmental research. Creating Scientific GDI to support the research community in efficiently exchanging data and methods related to the various scientific disciplines forming the basis of environmental studies poses numerous challenges on today's GDI developments. The paper summarizes requirements and recommendations on the publication of scientific geospatial data and on functionalities to be provided in Scientific GDI. Best practices and open issues for governance and policies of a Scientific GDI are discussed and are concluded by deriving a research agenda for the next decade.

SummarySince multitouch interfaces are steadily moving out of the experimental niche, the demand for comprehensive programming support increases. Between the formation of de facto standards for multitouch gestures by the industry, and continued research and experimentation by developers or academia, the abstraction of gesture properties becomes essential. This paper contributes a revision of the Gesture Formalization for Multitouch (GeForMT) gesture description language. This language aims at a short and concise syntax, which is still able to capture the complexity of multitouch gestures. We report on a previously missing reference architecture and practical implementation. Based on a study comparing the revised GeForMT language with other formalization approaches for multitouch gestures, we introduce an editor for GeForMT.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Abstract. In Earth System Sciences, a data-driven research domain, several communities discuss the importance, guidance and implementation of making research data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. To foster these principles, in particular to support reusability, users need easy-to-use user interfaces with meaningful visualizations for detailed metainformation, e.g. on dataset’s origin and quality. However, visualization tools to facilitate the evaluation of fitness for use of ESS research data on domainspecific metainformation, do hardly exist.We provide a Geo-dashboard concept for user-friendly interactive and linked visualizations of provenance and quality information using standardized geospatial metadata. A provenance graph visualization serves as overview and entry point for further evaluations. Quality information is essential to evaluate the fitness for use of data. Therefore, we developed quality visualizations on several levels of detail to foster evaluation, e.g. by enabling users to choose and classify quality parameters based on their use-case-specific needs.

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