5. Navigation Pre-History & Human
(invisible at this scale)
Tours Life timeline
Earth timeline
Cosmos timeline
The ChronoZoom Interface
6. Navigation Pre-History & Human
(invisible at this scale)
Tours Life timeline
Earth timeline
Important Event
Cosmos timeline Event
Events are shown as InfoDots
7. Introducing
InfoDots
Collapsed Expanded Zoomed
An InfoDot is the basic unit of ChronoZoom.
It is used to describe events and provides access to media.
8. Expanded
InfoDot
Collapsed
InfoDots
Expanded InfoDots convey important events
Collapsed InfoDots can be zoomed into
9. Using ChronoZoom
Threshold 8: Industrial Revolution
Meet Phil
Phil is a Professor at Contoso University interested in using
ChronoZoom to bring Big History to life.
10. Phil visits the ChronoZoom website and starts by clicking on
“Explore Big History”
13. Jump directly to
different regimes
Topic based guided
explorations
The side bar serves as navigation and provides a list of Guided Tours available.
14. Jump directly to different
regimes or open a tour
Customize a timeline or tour
Create a timeline
The side bar has three tabs for different functions.
16. Search
Dynamic
time scale
Events
Important
Events
The timeline viewing area is similar to the original ChronoZoom.
It can be panned and zoomed.
17. Phil decides to view a Guided tour.
He clicks on “Industrial Revolution”.
18. The canvas zooms toward the upper right, passing
Earth, Life, Pre-History just like the original ChronoZoom
19. Phil has arrived at the timeline for 1700-1900: Modern Revolution.
It is part of the Human History timeline.
20. Side bar has changed
to show captions
Previous and next
buttons appear
Captions help explain on screen content
21.
22. Phil sees three timelines that make up the Industrial Revolution:
Britain, Western Europe and the US, and finally Russia and Japan
23. The timeline for Industrial Revolution was organized according to:
Christian, David; Cynthia Brown and Craig Benjamin. 2011.
Between Nothing and Everything: Big History. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
24. Phil clicks the Next button to advance the tour.
He can use his arrow keys as well.
67. Advanced features
of ChronoZoom
Create your own timeline
Create your own tours
Plot and compare chart data
Filter, search and sort InfoDots
Assign guided tours as interactive
online reading
68. Credits
Sept 16 , 2011
Chris Engberg Roland Saekow
engberg@berkeley.edu saekow@berkeley.edu
71. Advanced features
of ChronoZoom
Create your own timeline
Create your own tours
Plot and compare chart data
Filter, search and sort InfoDots
Assign guided tours as interactive
online reading
Teachers can create their own timelines to supplement lectures
Students can create their own timelines as projects
72. Advanced features
of ChronoZoom
Create your own timeline
Create your own tours
Plot and compare chart data
Filter, search and sort InfoDots
Assign guided tours as interactive
online reading
Teachers can create their own tours to fit their lecture style
Students can create their own tours for class presentations
73. Advanced features
of ChronoZoom
Create your own timeline
Create your own tours
Plot and compare chart data
Filter, search and sort InfoDots
Assign guided tours as interactive
online reading
Researchers can plot time series data along side timelines to
reveal new insights into the past
74. Advanced features
of ChronoZoom
Create your own timeline
Create your own tours
Plot and compare chart data
Filter, search and sort InfoDots
Assign guided tours as interactive
online reading
Harness the power of search to filter events in real time for new
insights into the past.
75. Advanced features
of ChronoZoom
Create your own timeline
Create your own tours
Plot and compare chart data
Filter, search and sort InfoDots
Assign guided tours as interactive
online reading
Use ChronoZoom as an interactive online reading experience to
supplement course readings
Notas del editor
ChronoZoomwill enable innovative ways of teaching and researching history through a visually rich, seamless and interactive experience, and by bringing together disciplines and showing them in a context which was not previously possible.
ChronoZoomwill enable innovative ways of teaching and researching history through a visually rich, seamless and interactive experience, and by bringing together disciplines and showing them in a context which was not previously possible.
ChronoZoomwill enable innovative ways of teaching and researching history through a visually rich, seamless and interactive experience, and by bringing together disciplines and showing them in a context which was not previously possible.
ChronoZoomwill enable innovative ways of teaching and researching history through a visually rich, seamless and interactive experience, and by bringing together disciplines and showing them in a context which was not previously possible.
ChronoZoomwill enable innovative ways of teaching and researching history through a visually rich, seamless and interactive experience, and by bringing together disciplines and showing them in a context which was not previously possible.
ChronoZoomwill enable innovative ways of teaching and researching history through a visually rich, seamless and interactive experience, and by bringing together disciplines and showing them in a context which was not previously possible.