Invitation to contribute to research via 45 min interview: OS Scientific & Research Software Usability

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Eriol Fox

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Jan 30, 2023, 5:42:55 AM1/30/23

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Hello Vispy devs!

You may have heard from us before but we’re reaching our deadline for including critical, important voices in our research into Design & Usability in Scientific and Research OSS and we want to make sure your Vispy project and work is included in this. Our deadline for research interviews is the 10th of February 2023.

We want to invite people to 45-minute, compensated interviews with our research team. If you are interested in participating, please use this booking link to find a time - let us know if you have any trouble, or if you can't see a time that works, reach out to the email (user-p...@superbloom.design) and we can coordinate a time.

About the Project:

Our project is titled “Usable Software Ecosystem Research” or “USER” for short. We are investigating:

how norms in academic, science, and/or open source working environments affect the choices teams make around their users and different kinds of design interventions
how team dynamics and trust affects those choices
what teams would need to be interested in or able to prioritize usability in their work.

This research is funded by the Sloan Foundation.

About the Interviews:

We are interested in speaking with a broad range of maintainers, developers, designers, scientists, researchers, funders, institutions and stakeholders – essentially, anyone who is involved with stewarding, supporting and/or creating open source scientific & research software.

Interviews will be 45-60 minutes, compensated at $50 USD in the form of a gift card. We will conduct the interviews over Zoom. Should you agree to interview, we will share a consent + reimbursement form which you must sign to participate. That form also includes information on how we handle data and privacy policies of the services we use. If you require language or translation services to be interviewed in a language other than English, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.