EAGER-Enabling Partnerships to Enable Science (TOOLS): AnyFish: a User-Friendly Software Package for Creating Realistic Animations for Animal Behavior

渴望建立伙伴关系以实现科学（工具）：AnyFish：用于为动物行为创建逼真动画的用户友好软件包

• 批准号: 1045226
• 负责人: Gil Rosenthal
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1045226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Enabling; Partnerships; Enable; Science

This project seeks to develop user-friendly software, anyFish, for researchers, educators, and students seeking to develop realistic, scientifically rigorous computer animations of fish based on real-world data on behavior, shape, and color. The software will be used to produce stimuli for use in behavioral experiments, as well as interactive modules for educational use. The software will allow rigorous testing of theories of collective behavior, social interactions, and cognition. Students will be widely familiar with analogous systems in computer games, making it a particularly powerful tool to bring students into STEM programs by piquing the interest of students in science, biology, and animal behavior. A module based on anyFish will be integrated into the Virtual Biology educational software package for inquiry-based education at high school and college levels. anyFish will also make it easy for students to participate in original research on a minimal budget. A single desktop computer can be used to create and play back stimuli, and a handful of aquaria are required for the experiments. Students at smaller and minority-serving institutions will be able to design and execute rigorous, state-of-the-art experiments in animal behavior.

该项目旨在为研究人员，教育工作者和学生开发用户友好的软件，任何鱼类，他们寻求基于对行为，形状和颜色的现实世界数据来开发逼真的，科学严格的鱼类动画。该软件将用于产生用于行为实验的刺激，以及用于教育使用的交互模块。 该软件将允许对集体行为，社交互动和认知理论进行严格的测试。学生将普遍熟悉计算机游戏中的类似系统，这是通过激发学生对科学，生物学和动物行为的兴趣将学生带入STEM计划的特别强大工具。 基于任何鱼类的模块将集成到虚拟生物学教育软件包中，以在高中和大学级别的基于查询的教育。任何鱼类还将使学生轻松以最少的预算参与原始研究。 一台台式计算机可用于创建和播放刺激，实验需要少量水族箱。 较小和少数派服务机构的学生将能够设计和执行严格的动物行为实验。