[CAnet - news] New scientific practices for e-Science

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http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/613/
	
Designing for e-Science: Interrogating new scientific practice for
usability, in the lab and beyond

The e-Science community is deeply involved in developing services to support
both shared computation and shared information in 21st Century science. As
part of this development, the community is keen to convert laboratories to
pervasive computing environments, where data generated in the lab can be
captured and published automatically; where information generated can be
combined and compared with other labs on demand, and provenance of all
information can be readily discovered and used. This vision of the smart lab
has come to be known as publication at source.

There are a variety of implications within this vision for usability design,
from understanding the requirements of tools to support new practice, to
designing for support of new protocols of trust and privacy.

Beyond these challenges, the new practice of "e"Science has implications for
the meaning of science in society: change the tools of practice, change the
practice. What are the new models that will evolve for the communication,
receptions and disclosure of science? How will the tools designed to support
practice help negotiate communication?

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presentation of new
ideas and development of a community interested in the above questions. The
workshop will have two main parts: the presentation of new findings in
usability design for escience, from approaches in design to evaluations of
techniques, and working group sessions to evolve and support a network of
interdisciplinary scholarship interested in sharing findings, debating
practice and collaborating on establishing an understanding of the practice
and production of science in the 21st century, within and beyond its
embodiment in the "smart" laboratory of the publication@source paradigm.

The outcomes from the workshop will form the basis of a special issue in the
International Journal of Human Computer Studies on EScience Applications and
Uability Design.

The two days will provide a mix of presentations and working sessions.

For submission criteria and deadlines please see
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~sign/uws/ For more information contact mc+uws at
ecs.soton.ac.uk


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