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The State of Sustainable Research Software: Results from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)
This article summarizes motivations, organization, and activities of the
Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences
(WSSSPE5.1) held in Manchester, UK in September 2017. The WSSSPE series
promotes sustainable research software by positively impacting principles and
best practices, careers, learning, and credit. This article discusses the Code
of Conduct, idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and
lightning talks presented during the workshop. The main part of the article
discusses the speed-blogging groups that formed during the meeting, along with
the outputs of those sessions
Predicting whether users view dynamic content on the world wide web
Dynamic micro-content—interactive or updating widgets and features—is now widely used on the Web, but there is little understanding of how people allocate attention to it. In this paper we present the results of an eye tracking investigation examining how the nature of dynamic micro-content influences whether or not the user views it. We propose and validate the Dynamic Update Viewing-likelihood (DUV) model, a Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) model that predicts with around 80 % accuracy whether users view dynamic updates as a function of how they are initiated, their size and their duration. The model is constructed with data from live websites and does not rely on knowledge of the user’s task to make its predictions, giving it a high-level of external validity. We discuss one example of its application: informing how dynamic content should be presented in audio via assistive technology for people with visual impairments
How Researchers Use Diagrams in Communicating Neural Network Systems
Neural networks are a prevalent and effective machine learning component, and
their application is leading to significant scientific progress in many
domains. As the field of neural network systems is fast growing, it is
important to understand how advances are communicated. Diagrams are key to
this, appearing in almost all papers describing novel systems. This paper
reports on a study into the use of neural network system diagrams, through
interviews, card sorting, and qualitative feedback structured around
ecologically-derived examples. We find high diversity of usage, perception and
preference in both creation and interpretation of diagrams, examining this in
the context of existing design, information visualisation, and user experience
guidelines. Considering the interview data alongside existing guidance, we
propose guidelines aiming to improve the way in which neural network system
diagrams are constructed.Comment: 19 pages, 6 tables, 3 figure
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