title: ButterflyNet: A Mobile Capture and Access System for Field Biology Research
creator: Yeh, Ron B
creator: Liao, Chunyuan
creator: Klemmer, Scott R
creator: Guimbretiere, Francois
creator: Lee, Brian
creator: Kakaradov, Boyko
creator: Stamberger, Jeannie
creator: Paepcke, Andreas
subject: Mobile Computing
description: Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and distill. To manage this data, biologists leverage a diverse set of tools, organizing their effort in paper notebooks. These observations motivated ButterflyNet, a mobile capture and access system that integrates paper notes with digital photographs captured during field research. Through ButterflyNet, the activity of leafing through a notebook expands to browsing all associated digital photos. ButterflyNet also facilitates the transfer of captured content to spreadsheets, enabling biologists to share their work. A first-use study with 14 biologists found this system to offer rich data capture and transformation, in a manner felicitous with current practice.
date: 2006
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/853/1/2006-3.pdf
identifier: Yeh, Ron B and Liao, Chunyuan and Klemmer, Scott R and Guimbretiere, Francois and Lee, Brian and Kakaradov, Boyko and Stamberger, Jeannie and Paepcke, Andreas (2006) ButterflyNet: A Mobile Capture and Access System for Field Biology Research. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), April 22-27, 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
relation: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/853/