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Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=542
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 usabilty 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.
| Monday, June 6 | |
| 10:00 | Coffee and registration |
| 10:30 | Kick off talk by Tom Rodden, Chair, Usability Task Force, EPSRC eScience Program. E-Science Usability 101 |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Requirements Gathering, Part 1, Marina Jirotka |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:50 | Requirements Gathering, Part 2 |
| 16:30 | Close |
| Tuesday, June 7 | |
| 09:30 | Coffee |
| 10:00 | Ethnography, Part 1 Mark Rouncefield |
| 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:50 | Ethnography, Part 2 |
| 13:20 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Use of Video/Logs, Part 1 Mike Fraser and Barry Brown |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Video/Logs, Part 2 |
| Wednesday, June 8 | |
| 09:30 | Coffee |
| 10:00 | Understanding Statistics in HCI. Part 1 Alan Dix |
| 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:50 | Understanding Statistics, Part 2 |
| 13:20 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Diary Studies, William Newman |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:50 | Diary Studies, Part 2 |
| Thursday, June 9 (morning) | |
| 09:30 | Coffee |
| 09:45 | Design Elicitation, Prototyping and Review, Part 1, mc schraefel |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | Design Elicitation, Part 2 |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
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Please note that the organisers will require to contact attendees after the event
The National e-Science Centre, e-Science Institute in Edinburgh is a centre for education and research for e-Science, and provides new state-of-the art facilities including an Access Grid system.
Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.
Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.
Travel: The e-Science Institute is less than 15 minutes walk from Waverley rail station, and from St Andrews square bus stations. It is approximately 20 minutes by taxi from Edinburgh airport (40 minutes by bus). Please see our web site for a map of the area.
