Embedding e-Science Applications - Designing and Managing for Usability

就其本质而言，电子科学项目汇集了来自不同学科、组织文化以及通常来自地球仪不同地区的研究人员和开发人员。这些项目通常涉及数十名彼此不认识的研究人员和开发人员，他们可能对项目的目标有不同的理解，并且来自不同的背景和不同的技能。有一些问题需要考虑，以确保该项目的成功。该项目正在与一些现有的大型电子科学应用程序合作，以了解这些团体如何沟通和合作，并确定可用性设计和管理的障碍和困难，以及可以做些什么来克服这些障碍和困难。该项目的研究人员将与电子科学应用，阴影活动，视频互动和采访研究人员的研究团队合作，以确定问题。所涉及的电子科学应用正在使用协作技术，而不是视频会议，使研究人员能够相互交谈，共享数据，图像和其他信息，并使用大型国家计算机和数据库系统。该项目将有助于改善这些工具和技术在科学合作中的使用，并将通过对沟通和合作的关注为管理这些项目提供指导方针。

By their very nature e-Science projects bring together researchers and developers from different disciplines, organisational cultures and often from different parts of the globe. The projects often involve many tens of researchers and developers who don't know each other, who may have a different understanding of the goals of the project, and who come from different backgrounds and with different skill sets. There are a number of issues that need to be considered to ensure the project is successful. This project is working with a number of existing large-scale e-Science applications to understand how the groups communicate and collaborate and to identify where there are barriers and difficulties to usability design and management, and what can be done to overcome them. Researchers from this project will be working with research teams in the e-Science applications, shadowing activities, videoing interactions and interviewing researchers to identify issues. The e-Science applications involved are using collaborative technologies, rather like video conferencing, to allow the researchers talk to each other, share data, images and other information, and are using large national computers and database systems. This project will help improve the use of these tools and technologies in science collaborations and will provide guidelines for managing these projects through this focus on communication and collaboration.