Epidemic Planet

The Epidemic Planet is an installation for scientific exhibitions meant to disseminate the long-running research on the computational modeling of epidemics at the Computational Epidemiology Lab at the ISI Foundation (Turin, Italy) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN, USA) under the direction of Alessandro Vespignani and Vittoria Colizza. The exhibit aims to enable its users to interactively compare and learn about the effect of a number of intervention scenarios on a pandemic, simulated using GLEaM, the unique global epidemic and mobility model, and visualized using the GLEaMviz visualization.

The Epidemic Planet was first displayed at the three-month INFECTIOUS exhibition in the Science Gallery at the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The following pictures show this exhibit which consists of a large screen that shows an animation of the global spreading of the epidemic, accompanied by a smaller touch-screen panel that enables the visitor to select one of the many scenarios on offer.

More information:

• gleamviz.org - the GLEaMviz project site
• GLEaMviz at INFECTIOUS, Science Gallery, Dublin

In collaboration with:

Prof. Alessandro Vespignani, Vittoria Colizza, José Ramasco, Duygu Balcan, Paolo Bajardi, Bruno Gonçalves, Hao Hu, Chiara Poletto, Michele Tizzoni, Nicola Perra, Daniela Paolott