Introduction

Research Graph

Research Graph is an open collaborative project that builds connections between:

• Researchers
• Scientific publications
• Research projects
• Other scholarly works

Such a project aims at providing an overview of the relations between researchers, research institution, topics and publications. Also, it can give a more clear perspective of how the research resource distribute.

Virtual Control

TechLauncher is an ANU initiative for students to work closely with industries by raising project.

The goal of our project is to demonstrate how motion can enable interacting with a large graph in 3D space.

Connections and layout of data in research graph is represented in Gephi. Our project aims to manipulate Gephi's menus and controls by using hand tracking sensor Leap Motion, to realized the interaction with large graph.

What we use

• Gephi is the Graph Visualization platform we use to represent and interact (i.e, clustering, change point/edge colours) with the research graph.
• Leap Motion is hand tracking sensor which provide SDKs for developers to define their own gestures, building their virtual reality project. We use Leap Motion to track customer hands and define gestures corresponding to the interactive we would like to make towards the graph.
• gephi-plugins is an open source maven project we to trigger Gephi's menus and controls.