Queiroz, F orcid.org/0000-0002-2685-2653 and Spitz, R (2016) Position Paper: Collaborative Gamification Design for Scientific Software. In: Allen, G, Carver, J, Choi, S-CT, Crick, T, Crusoe, MR, Gesing, S, Haines, R, Heroux, M, Hwang, LJ, Katz, DS, Niemeyer, KE, Parashar, M and Venters, CC, (eds.) CEUR Workshop Proceedings. WSSSPE4: 4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences, 12-14 Sep 2016, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. CEUR-WS.org
Abstract
Gamification, a design trend that is extensively applied to education and citizen science, is regarded as a means to improve scientific software usability. However, development and use of scientific software have special needs and characteristics that might present design challenges. Our position is that gamifi-cation and usability design for scientific software should be facilitated by an open, collaborative design process supported by conversational media. We believe this approach is compatible with qualities often attributed to computational science community re-garding openness and collaboration between members of varied professional backgrounds. Through an illustrative scenario, we ex-emplify the use of conversational media for collaborative design. We expect the synergy between collaborators to result in better us-ability, greater user acceptance, and adequacy to requirements, obtaining optimal design solutions in a sustainable way.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | Scientific software; gamification; usability; open design; collaboration |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Design (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2018 15:09 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2018 12:09 |
Published Version: | http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1686/ |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | CEUR-WS.org |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138059 |