Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces

The genomic domain is a complex data environment that has grown exponentially. Several tools have been developed to extract knowledge from this immense amount of data. Knowledge extraction processes depend to a large extent on how easy and intuitive are the user interfaces of the tools that are used...

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Main Authors: García S., Alberto, Iniguez-Jarrín, Carlos, Pastor-López, Óscar, González-Ibeas, Daniel, Pérez-Román, Estela, Borredá, Carles, Terol, Javier, Ibanez, Victoria, Talón, Manuel
Other Authors: Ali, Raian
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8306
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author García S., Alberto
Iniguez-Jarrín, Carlos
Pastor-López, Óscar
González-Ibeas, Daniel
Pérez-Román, Estela
Borredá, Carles
Terol, Javier
Ibanez, Victoria
Talón, Manuel
author2 Ali, Raian
author_browse Ali, Raian
Borredá, Carles
García S., Alberto
González-Ibeas, Daniel
Ibanez, Victoria
Iniguez-Jarrín, Carlos
Pastor-López, Óscar
Pérez-Román, Estela
Talón, Manuel
Terol, Javier
author_facet Ali, Raian
García S., Alberto
Iniguez-Jarrín, Carlos
Pastor-López, Óscar
González-Ibeas, Daniel
Pérez-Román, Estela
Borredá, Carles
Terol, Javier
Ibanez, Victoria
Talón, Manuel
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description The genomic domain is a complex data environment that has grown exponentially. Several tools have been developed to extract knowledge from this immense amount of data. Knowledge extraction processes depend to a large extent on how easy and intuitive are the user interfaces of the tools that are used by bioinformaticians. However, genomic tools have frequently ignored the design process of their User Interfaces. Consequently, they have important usability problems that complicates knowledge extraction. User Centered Design (UCD) is a design approach that can be used to improve the usability of genomic tools. It consists on putting the user and its real needs at the center of the design process. Improving the usability of these tools will facilitate knowledge extraction. This paper reports the application of the UCD approach to design a tool that improves knowledge extraction processes in a real world-use case. From a general perspective, UCD consists of “user research” and “design solutions”. The first one was carried out by conducting UCD techniques, including user interviews and task analysis. The second one was carried out by applying GenomIUm, a pattern-based method that guides the design process of genomic user interfaces. As a fundamental part in the UCD approach, the generated user interfaces were validated by expert bioinformaticians who reported that the complexity of extracting knowledge from genomic data was reduced. We conclude that UCD techniques together with GenomIUm can be a useful strategy to design more usable user interfaces in the genomic domain.
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spelling ReDivia83062025-04-25T14:54:21Z Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces García S., Alberto Iniguez-Jarrín, Carlos Pastor-López, Óscar González-Ibeas, Daniel Pérez-Román, Estela Borredá, Carles Terol, Javier Ibanez, Victoria Talón, Manuel Ali, Raian User-centred design User interface GenomIUm F30 Plant genetics and breeding U30 Research methods genomics The genomic domain is a complex data environment that has grown exponentially. Several tools have been developed to extract knowledge from this immense amount of data. Knowledge extraction processes depend to a large extent on how easy and intuitive are the user interfaces of the tools that are used by bioinformaticians. However, genomic tools have frequently ignored the design process of their User Interfaces. Consequently, they have important usability problems that complicates knowledge extraction. User Centered Design (UCD) is a design approach that can be used to improve the usability of genomic tools. It consists on putting the user and its real needs at the center of the design process. Improving the usability of these tools will facilitate knowledge extraction. This paper reports the application of the UCD approach to design a tool that improves knowledge extraction processes in a real world-use case. From a general perspective, UCD consists of “user research” and “design solutions”. The first one was carried out by conducting UCD techniques, including user interviews and task analysis. The second one was carried out by applying GenomIUm, a pattern-based method that guides the design process of genomic user interfaces. As a fundamental part in the UCD approach, the generated user interfaces were validated by expert bioinformaticians who reported that the complexity of extracting knowledge from genomic data was reduced. We conclude that UCD techniques together with GenomIUm can be a useful strategy to design more usable user interfaces in the genomic domain. 2022-08-24T14:34:09Z 2022-08-24T14:34:09Z 2021 conferenceObject García S., A., Iniguez-Jarrín, C., Pastor-López, O., Gonzalez-Ibea, D., Pérez-Román, E., Borredà, C. et al. (2021). Applying user centred design to improve the design of genomic user interfaces. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering-ENASE 2021, 25-35. 978-989-758-508-1 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8306 en 2021-04 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2021 Prague, Czechia This work has been developed with the financial support of the Spanish State Research Agency and the Generalitat Valenciana under the projects TIN2016-80811-P and PROMETEO/2018/176 and co-financed with ERDF. Work at IVIA is funding by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci´on y Universidades (Spain) trough grant RTI2018-097790-R-100 and by the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (Spain), through grants 51915 and 52002. Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ openAccess electronico
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Iniguez-Jarrín, Carlos
Pastor-López, Óscar
González-Ibeas, Daniel
Pérez-Román, Estela
Borredá, Carles
Terol, Javier
Ibanez, Victoria
Talón, Manuel
Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces
title Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces
title_full Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces
title_fullStr Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces
title_full_unstemmed Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces
title_short Applying User Centred Design to Improve the Design of Genomic User Interfaces
title_sort applying user centred design to improve the design of genomic user interfaces
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User interface
GenomIUm
F30 Plant genetics and breeding
U30 Research methods
genomics
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/8306
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