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The Usability Task Force in eScience and the EPSRC are sponsoring a
usability tutorial summer school for anyone in the eScience program.
The aim of the 4 day event will be to provide a practical overview of
usability design methods, grounded in eScience examples, to help
teams improve design in their projects.
If you have staff or students involved in such projects, or know of
colleagues who may be interested in learning about this event, please
pass this announcement along.
The tutorials are free to eScience project members. Travel and
accommodation support is available for PhD students funded by an
eScience project.
Registration and Agenda information is available at the National
eScience Center at
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/542/
The call for participation follows:
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
DESIGNING FOR USABILITY IN ESCIENCE:
A suite of tutorials for Researchers Interested in Improving
Usableness and Usefulness of their eScience tools
DATES
06 June, 05 10:00 AM - 09 June, 05 01:00 PM
LOCATION
e-Science Institute, 15, South College Street, Edinburgh
OVERVIEW
One of the goals of eScience research is to develop new tools and
resources that will enable new scientific discovery. One of the
problems expressed by eScience pilot projects has been that there has
frequently been a gap between the development of tool infrastructure
and the interface that real scientists use to access these new tools.
There is neither expertise to help design prototypes or evaluate
their effectiveness in terms of usableness or usefulness. The result
can be the production of tools that do not meet with acceptance by
the people for whom they are designed to be used.
The aim of these tutorials is to introduce researchers to the variety
of resources and methods available to help approach both the design
and evaluation of their eScience tools.
There are a variety of resources, for instance, that describe simple
ways to do interface layouts for forms that are demonstrably more
effective than other approaches. There are similarly a number of
methods for developing and testing an interface *before* it is
deployed to ensure that the team is on the right track.
The tutorials will introduce these resources as well as describe
methods for the iterative cycle of design, from requirements
gathering, to prototyping to evaluation. We will present ways for you
to integrate these techniques into existing projects.
Tutorial notes will be available as a resource
There will be a series of tutorials covering a range of topics
appropriate to usability design in eScience. The tutorials will be
presented by experts in each area. Resources, methods, and case
studies will be presented, with opportunity for rich discussion and
technique practice.
We will cover: requirements gathering, design elicitation,
ethnography, diary studies, use of video and video logs, use of
statistics, and evaluation.
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/542/
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