AHM 2004 Usability

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
• Other issues
• 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
• Other issues