We are honored to be among the winners of The Boring Fund 2024! Thank you WILDLABS and Arm for selecting our project.

MoveApps is a free no-code analysis platform for animal tracking, with the aim to empower the movement ecology community.

In the field of wildlife conservation and movement ecology, rates of data collection by tracking and biologging devices are unprecedented, increasing the challenge of extracting knowledge from the data collected. A large variety of analysis methods are being developed, many of which in effect are inaccessible to potential users, because they remain unpublished, depend on proprietary software, or require significant coding skills. Thus, there is a widening gap between data collection and state-of-the-art knowledge generation.

To accelerate knowledge extraction from these data, we have established MoveApps, a platform where code developers can share open-source analysis code, wrapped into modules, with data owners and domain experts interactively. MoveApps allows users to design and share Workflows composed of analysis modules (Apps) that access and analyze tracking data. Users browse Apps, build Workflows, customize parameters, execute analyses, and access results through an intuitive web-based interface.

MoveApps was first launched in spring 2021, and since then we have been developing the platform and improving its usability.

With the funds received from The Boring Fund 2024 we are planning to do the following:

1. Improve findability of help documentation by adding tooltips to key features and steps across the entire platform. When a tooltips is clicked, it will lead to the corresponding feature documentation in the user manual.
2. Improve the overview of the growing number of Apps by grouping them into categories displayed as tiles.
3. Improve the overview of the growing number of public Workflows by assigning them categories, and displaying these as tiles grouped by topic.
4. Improve communication between users and App developers by allowing users to download the log file of an App. This will be very helpful for the communication with the App developers when errors occur.