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Toward More Usable, Reproducible, and Sustainable Scientific Software: The Impact of User-Centered Design in Research Software Development

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Integrating user-centered approaches and methodologies is essential for advancing usability, reproducibility, and sustainability in scientific software. Scientific tools often prioritize technical functionality, however, creating barriers to adoption and workflow integration, especially in interdisciplinary collaborations where research and software development teams may not share the same technical background as domain scientists and end users.

Source: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (PASC)

DOI: 10.1145/3732775.3733576

Authors: Katherine Arneson, Lijiang Fu, Lisa Gatzke

Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Language: English

Topic: Scientific Computing and Data Management

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: National Science Foundation

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