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PDF-format manual too monolithic, HTML preferred Online tutorials not used -- they want tutorials oriented around biological tasks, not software functionality Question: how does this fit with Cytoscape's being domain-neutral? Suggestion: have a top-level set of domain-specific tutorials, with pointers to more detailed software functionality tutorials. |
Notes from Cytoscape Hackathon
Observations on Cytoscape Usability (Melissa)
Motivations: assess Cytoscape usability from biologists perspective, address stumbling blocks in the UI, assess biologists respeonse to vizmapper and filters.
Interviews with 9 users, conducted in workspace, presented in context of users' data and analyses, observed how users worked with software and explore new functionality.
Ran a brainstorming/prototyping workshop with users from usability studies, 2 groups, each group selected one topic to prototype with screen-dumps, post-its, etc. and were videotaped.
Issues raised were:
Documentation:
PDF-format manual too monolithic, HTML preferred
Online tutorials not used -- they want tutorials oriented around biological tasks, not software functionality
- Question: how does this fit with Cytoscape's being domain-neutral? Suggestion: have a top-level set of domain-specific tutorials, with pointers to more detailed software functionality tutorials.