ESC Human Factors Target Outputs

Outputs from telecon on 2012-02-23

From Emily:

• How about a set of human factors relating to science research practices questions/answers? For instance,
  • What hinders researchers from sharing their results?
    • Kuo - 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?

maybe a white paper, document pain points, can identify key issues so human factors is not a problem

• • What types of data and info are shared at the end of the day?
  • Chris: human factors can also be positive influences?
  • Bhaskhar: UX studies (HCI) are they germane? Yes, need to investigate
  • B. : 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)
  • Social proof:
  • Cognitive biases
    • 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?
  • Brian: make sure that this list is checked off against the user stories as well.
  • Delighters?
  • Bhaskar: 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
  • collaboratory in wiki: (need to add link)