论文标题
以用户为中心设计实验实验室数据平台的方法
A user-centered approach to designing an experimental laboratory data platform
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论文摘要
尽管自动化实验和高通量方法在数据时代正变得越来越主流，但使各个研究人员能够更快地捕获，整理和上下文化数据，而在科学中仍然是一个挑战。尽管有大量的软件产品可以帮助数字化和组织科学信息，但由于缺乏对研究人员及其实验过程的各种需求的整体了解，他们在科学界的广泛采用受到了阻碍。在这项工作中，我们采用以用户为中心的方法来了解设计和功能研究人员（在化学和材料科学中）想要在实验数据平台中的基本要素，以解决其实验过程中数据捕获的问题。我们发现，有能力将丰富，复杂的实验数据集的能力化为主要用户要求。我们将此关键发现和其他关键发现合成为潜在解决方案的设计标准。
While automated experiments and high-throughput methods are becoming more mainstream in the age of data, empowering individual researchers to capture, collate, and contextualize their data faster and more reproducibly still remains a challenge in science. Despite the abundance of software products to help digitize and organize scientific information, their broader adoption in the scientific community has been hindered by the lack of a holistic understanding of the diverse needs of researchers and their experimental processes. In this work, we take a user-centered approach to understand what essential elements of design and functionality researchers (in chemical and materials science) want in an experimental data platform to address the problem of data capture in their experimental processes. We found that having the capability to contextualize rich, complex experimental datasets is the primary user requirement. We synthesize this and other key findings into design criteria for a potential solution.
