FloTree: A multi-touch interactive simulation of evolutionary processes

ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 299-302

  Chua, Kien Chuan ^a,b   Qin, Yongqiang ^a,c   Block, Florian ^a   Phillips, Brenda ^a   Diamond, Judy ^d   Evans, E Margaret ^e   Horn, Michael S ^f   Shen, Chia ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evolution; interactive; population genetics; simulation

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROCESS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; GENETIC DIFFERENCES; INFORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE; INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; MULTI-TOUCH; MULTI-USER; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; POPULATION GENETICS; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SUB-POPULATIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 84871309976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396636.2396684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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