INVISQUE – Interview: Neesha Kodagoda and William Wong

Sep 5, 2009 by milly-shaw

William Wong and Neesha Kodagoda from the Interaction Design Centre at Middlesex University talk about INVISIQUE, a way to visualise and interact with academic data.

What is INVISIQUE?INVISIQUE stands for Interactive Visual Search Enquiry Environment. It’s a way to visualise scholarly information in data sets. You can pull out information that you’re interested in, and see unexpected links and connections to other papers.What problems/issues is INVISIQUE tackling?It’s soliving the problem of locating the right data in large data sets.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?We are looking for partners to help us build it.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?This is my first JISC event. I had no idea these things existed!What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?I’d have to say what we’re doing – it will save a lot of time and really help people out!