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Greetings from InfraVis Director Monica Billger and Management Team
| Thanks to all of you for fantastic contributions to create InfraVis and move it forward! The first 1,5 years have been challenging and rewarding. At the infravis Days in Norrköping in April we could enjoy and celebrate our work with the support projects, as well as dig deep into how to improve our work procedures. In May, we opened up a call for support projects and received 45 applications - an amount we are all amazed and humbled by. Most of the Infravis application experts and node coordinators have been engaged in reviewing the applications in order to match the user needs with our competencies and resources. Applicants will be informed about the results shortly. In parallel, a working group has developed our new webpage that will be launched after the summer. This year's achievements would not have been possible without the close dialogue with the InfraVis Steering Group that has proven crucial for the development of the research infrastructure. After summer, we will start a new busy and exciting phase of InfraVis with the InfraVis experts engaged in the approved in-depth support projects. We also look forward to continued dialoge with other research infrastructures, having the expanded Scientific Advisory Board engaged and the InfraVis User Forum developed. We wish you all a great summer and look forward to new adventures in the fall! | InfraVis Days and InfraVis support projects | |
Briefly about InfraVis Days in NorrköpingBetween 27th – 28th April 2023, InfraVis staff from all nine partner universities gathered in Norrköping for InfraVis Days. As per tradition, the team engaged in workshops analyzing the path the research infrastructure has taken throughout the past year: We reviewed the completed eight pilot projects that have played a significant role in the development of InfraVis, and we also covered lessons learned. The team further outlined strategies for internal and external collaboration, exchange of skills and know-how and growth of the InfraVis community. According to the InfraVis Steering Committee, InfraVis Days were inspirational, with interesting discussions and insights generated through the workshops. The Steering Committee deemed that the workshops manifested potential for growth and development. InfraVis Days in Norrköping were special: InfraVis presented three of its pilot projects to the world for the first time. Moreover, the Steering Committee decided to open the first-ever InfraVis Call for Applications for research projects that need in-depth visualization support. | | Facts about "InfraVis Days" "InfraVis Days" takes place twice a year and it is an opportunity for the distributed InfraVis team to network, to review the progress and to plan future steps together so that the research infrastructure can continually offer top-level visualization support to its users. "InfraVis Days" is rotational, meaning that each time it is hosted by a different node. As you can see on the map below, "InfraVis Days" has already been hosted by Chalmers, Uppsala and Linköping, with KTH next in line. | | | | Map of InfraVis partner universities with markings for universities that have hosted or will host InfraVis Days. Black flags indicate past InfraVis Days, and golden flags indicate upcoming InfraVis Days. | Apart from the traditional updates and events sections, this newsletter includes a special section dedicated to the contribution InfraVis has made to each support project. The section highlights the three support projects that were presented to the public during InfraVis Days. | Three InfraVis support projects were presented to the publicIn 2023, InfraVis completed eight support projects visualizing a vast collection of data types from photographs to flow fields, requiring diverse visualization competencies. Three of the InfraVis support projects - Medical Digital Twin, Extended Rephotography and In-situ Visualization Support for AMR Meshes in Nek5000 - were presented publicly at InfraVis Days. Below is a description of the problems researchers were facing and the solutions InfraVis Application Experts came up with. For detailed information about each of these three support projects, watch the forty-five-minute video recording at the end of this section. | Medical Digital TwinThe researcher Gunnar Cedersund is, together with his team, creating digital twins based on data models of cells, organs and the body as a whole that, when combined with patient specific data, can provide predictions for the patient's future health based on medications, diets, exercises, etc. The data that they produce through machine learning algorithms is in the form of graphs that can show how your body changes over time based on treatment and behavior. The goal is for the patient to engage with the prediction and potentially change behavior to change the health outcome. However, the researchers believe that graphs alone are too abstract and not efficient for driving engagement in the patient. They felt that a more personalized way of presenting the data was needed. Using a technology called Metahuman, InfraVis created an application with personalized 3D avatars, based on 3D scanned data of patients, and customized to look like them. The goal is to provide the patient with a more accessible interface for them to explore their personal data - their own body. | Extended RephotographyExtended Rephotography is a three-year interdisciplinary project on climate change that is developing uses of Extended Reality technologies for artistic research based on 360° video. The aim of the project is to develop methods for using immersive passages of time to observe the effects of a climate in transition. As their data spans over 400 years, and consists of photographs, 360 video, maps, and observations related to vast areas in Svalbard, the research group needed to collaboratively organize their data in time and space. What was required of Infravis was expertise in web development and UX design to create an online tool to register, explore and compare the data. This also included assistance for the project with data modelling and backend development to help the research team structure the material they brought back from Svalbard. The solution will help the research team compare their data to the historical material and plan future expeditions in terms of data acquisition. | In-situ Visualization Support for AMR Meshes in NEK5000Researchers at KTH wanted to gain a better understanding of how turbulence behaves around airplane wings, which could aid engineers in designing more efficient aircraft. The intermediate data produced by related simulations is typically discarded because it is too large to save. InfraVis helped get a deeper understanding of the data by analyzing and visualizing it while the simulation was running on a supercomputer, before the data was discarded. As part of this project, the InfraVis team visualized how the Magnus effect is employed in the Flettner rotor wherein the rotor deflects into a low-pressure zone caused by its rotation and allows for harvesting the wind energy. Given that around 80% of all transport occurs via ships, resulting in more than 15% of all carbon emissions, harvesting the wind energy using e.g. the Flettner rotor could save up to 15% of fuel consumption and be a step in the direction for a more sustainable form of transport. | Do you want to know more? Watch the public presentations of these three InfraVis Support Projects. | Briefly about remaining five InfraVis support projects | SEAD Conservation InfraVis helped demonstrate the availability of a long-term record of biodiversity data which could be used to understand the biodiversity implications of the current climate and extinction crisis. | | | | Hosting VR applications on the cloud InfraVis developed a framework for hosting Virtual Reality applications on the cloud which allows for visualization and manipulation of large datasets through distributed VR. | | | | 3D mapping of cortical changes leading to epileptic seizures
InfraVis helped create a 3D map of the structural changes underlying the pathological hyperexcitable network leading to seizures. This could give us directions needed to reverse and thus cure epilepsy. | | | | Visualization of pedestrian noise exposureInfraVis showcased a new type of visualization where noise exposure is reported in relation to public spaces rather than the more common approach used on building facades. | | | | Visualization of online activism factorsInfraVis developed interactive visualization approaches for analyzing heterogeneous data from multiple data sources including petition texts, social media texts, and related metadata.
| | | | InfraVis has received 45 applications through its first-ever callInfraVis has received a thrilling amount of applications through its first-ever Call for Applications. The 45 applications cover a broad range of research areas and come from fourteen Swedish universities. We would like to thank all applicants for demonstrating trust towards InfraVis and its capacity to take Swedish research to new heights. We have reviewed the applications and will inform the applicants about the outcomes on 28th June, 2023. | Uppsala and Umeå nodes invite you to a joint courseWhat is the best vizualisation technique for your results and data? Participate in this course to get both a theoretical overview of useful visualization techniques and hands-on insight into how to create your own visualizations using MATLAB as a tool. Target group: The course will have a special focus on how to vizualise results from Machine Learning applications. Therefore, students and researchers coming from all fields, including the humanities and social science, can benefit from it.
Organizers Uppsala node: Anders Hast, Ingela Nyström, Nikita Singh Umeå node: Jon Svensson, Roger Mähler *The course is given on the spot, free of charge. Participants will have an opportunity to take one-hour lunch break at their own expense. | TopDesk during summer vacationMost of the InfraVis staff will be on vacation in July which may cause some delay in our TopDesk response time. You can still submit your inquiries through our User Support Form and we will get back to you as soon as we are back from vacation. | Meet the Uppsala node of InfraVisInfraVis consists of nine partner universities, forming eight nodes. Each node contributes in their own unique ways, creating unified strong visualization support all around Sweden. Watch this video produced by the Uppsala node and get to know their visualization expertise better.
| | | | Meet InfraVis Application Experts | Filip Berendt, KTHExpert in Simulation and Abstract VisualizationFilip has spent a large portion of his time at Infravis getting key components of the infrastructure including the ticket management system and website up and running. He has also been responsible for coordinating the efforts for training the InfraVis staff in the ticket management system. His expertise includes constructing simulations for visualisation purposes, as well as designing abstraction processes for visualizing otherwise difficult-to-visualize phenomena.
| | | | Mattis Lindmark, UmeåUnity DeveloperMattis is an accomplished Unity developer specializing in 3D, digital art, game design and programming. With expertise in interdisciplinary approaches, Mattis has created interactive applications for various contexts, including museums, cultural heritage, educational settings, and art exhibitions. His skills encompass 3D modelling and animation, XR-development, as well as video post-production and graphic design.
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