ESC Human Factors Target Outputs

Outputs from telecon on 2012-02-23

• Recommend a set of questions and answers about human factors relating to science research practices
  • What hinders researchers from sharing their results?
    • N.B.: need to look at hindrances or lack thereof in different spheres, such as team members vs. competitors
  • What relationships do people expect to have in a collaboratory?
    • leverage other's knowledge, but need to account for competitive aspect
  • What social media are widely used by researchers?
  • What do researchers want?
  • What types of data and info are shared at the end of the day?
  • Look at both positive (enabling/facilitating) factors to be leveraged and negative factors to be mitigated
  • Look at User Experience aspects
  • Look at question of how do you ensure collaboratory does not inhibit pioneering research?
    • option a: just don't work there
    • option b: make sure collab supports "secret" personal workspace (analogy with Internet)
  • Chris: use MentalNotes: http://getmentalnotes.com/
    • Social proof:
    • Cognitive biases
    • Delighters?
    • e.g. Ownership bias, make the collaboratory more about the content (i.e., contributions) than the framework
    • Hook - make it more of an ecosystem, kind of like the Internet
    • factor cognitive biases into collaboratory
• Features (kind of like requirements) based on questions/answers
  • How do we relate this to user stories? User stories are more longitudinal?
  • BUT make sure that this list is checked off against the user stories as well.
  • What does this collaboration entail? sharing data, sharing algorithms?
    • AI: let's put together a simple list of what we share, eg. higher level data (not so much raw data)
    • We're sharing data, but also meta information, knowledge
• Add link to definition of collaboratory in wiki: (need to add link)