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Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics

Reproducibility should be a cornerstone of scientific research and is a growing concern among the scientific community and the public. Understanding how to design services and tools that support documentation, preservation and sharing is required to maximize the positive impact of scientific researc...

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Autores principales: Feger, Sebastian S., Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje, Schmidt, Albrecht, Woźniak, Paweł W.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300685
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2669547
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author Feger, Sebastian S.
Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje
Schmidt, Albrecht
Woźniak, Paweł W.
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Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje
Schmidt, Albrecht
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description Reproducibility should be a cornerstone of scientific research and is a growing concern among the scientific community and the public. Understanding how to design services and tools that support documentation, preservation and sharing is required to maximize the positive impact of scientific research. We conducted a study of user attitudes towards systems that support data preservation in High Energy Physics, one of science's most data-intensive branches. We report on our interview study with 12 experimental physicists, studying requirements and opportunities in designing for research preservation and reproducibility. Our findings suggest that we need to design for motivation and benefits in order to stimulate contributions and to address the observed scalability challenge. Therefore, researchers' attitudes towards communication, uncertainty, collaboration and automation need to be reflected in design. Based on our findings, we present a systematic view of user needs and constraints that define the design space of systems supporting reproducible practices.
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spelling cern-26695472022-08-10T12:24:16Zdoi:10.1145/3290605.3300685http://cds.cern.ch/record/2669547engFeger, Sebastian S.Dallmeier-Tiessen, SünjeSchmidt, AlbrechtWoźniak, Paweł W.Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physicshep-exParticle Physics - Experimentcs.HCComputing and ComputersReproducibility should be a cornerstone of scientific research and is a growing concern among the scientific community and the public. Understanding how to design services and tools that support documentation, preservation and sharing is required to maximize the positive impact of scientific research. We conducted a study of user attitudes towards systems that support data preservation in High Energy Physics, one of science's most data-intensive branches. We report on our interview study with 12 experimental physicists, studying requirements and opportunities in designing for research preservation and reproducibility. Our findings suggest that we need to design for motivation and benefits in order to stimulate contributions and to address the observed scalability challenge. Therefore, researchers' attitudes towards communication, uncertainty, collaboration and automation need to be reflected in design. Based on our findings, we present a systematic view of user needs and constraints that define the design space of systems supporting reproducible practices.arXiv:1903.05875oai:cds.cern.ch:26695472019
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Feger, Sebastian S.
Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje
Schmidt, Albrecht
Woźniak, Paweł W.
Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics
title Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics
title_full Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics
title_fullStr Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics
title_full_unstemmed Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics
title_short Designing for Reproducibility: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities in High Energy Physics
title_sort designing for reproducibility: a qualitative study of challenges and opportunities in high energy physics
topic hep-ex
Particle Physics - Experiment
cs.HC
Computing and Computers
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300685
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2669547
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