AHM 2004 Usability

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Overall usability goal:
Make Kepler scientist-friendly instead of programmer-centric.

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 particular version was published on 29-Oct-2004 11:01:47 PDT by LTER.dpennington.

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).


Long Term Ecological Research Network, UNM	National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UCSB	Biodiversity Research Center, KU	San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD


Arizona State University	Napier University	University of North Carolina	University of Vermont


UC Davis Genome Center

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