@inproceedings{08ce9383909a4f26bc21ace50aab560b,
title = "Co-designing scientific software: Hackathons for participatory interface design",
abstract = "Taxonomy is the branch of biology concerned with classifying organisms. Taxonomic work entails a range of complex human-computer and human-information interactions, which are under-supported by current software environments, partially because taxonomic software is largely built through ad hoc collaborations by taxonomists themselves. This results in poor user experience and difficult-to-use tools. Here we describe an interface design Hackathon held as part of the NSF-funded Transforming Taxonomic Interfaces project. We brought taxonomists, software developers, and information scientists together to rapidly prototype new interfaces. Taxonomists quickly took to paper prototyping, and produced a number of promising designs. Emergent themes and findings relevant to the HCI community are described herein.",
keywords = "Biodiversity informatics, Hackathons, Information interaction, Interface design, Participatory design, Rapid ethnography, Rapid prototyping, Taxonomy",
author = "Thomer, {Andrea K.} and Twidale, {Michael B.} and Jinlong Guo and Yoder, {Matthew J.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was funded through NSF Grant 1356515. Thanks to all of our Hackathon participants for their hard work and insights, and to our reviewers for their constructive comments. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Authors.; 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016 ; Conference date: 07-05-2016 Through 12-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/2851581.2892549",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "3219--3226",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2016",
address = "United States",
}