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AHM 2004 Usability
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+ Overall usability goal:\\Make Kepler scientist-friendly instead of programmer-centric.
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+ Discussion Items
+ *Usability issues in Kepler
+ **Visual language (color scheme, coding, data organization & presentation)
+ **Main/opening window of application
+ **Actor/director metaphor
+ **Others
+ *Difficult tasks using Kepler
+ *Ideas to improve Kepler usability
+ **Rule-based UI for easily implementing loops and if-then statements etc.
+ **Permanent and temporary checkpoints to allow scientists to pause the workflow
+ **Natural language report of workflow results
+ **Status and progress indicators
+ **"Most recently used" and/or "Favorites" features
+ **Others
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award 0225676. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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