Presentation
Towards a Cohesive Ecosystem of Workflows, Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Humans
DescriptionScientific discoveries increasingly depend on leveraging computation and data at scale among and across ecosystems. Scientific workflow tools provide a construct to manage the computation and data over distributed and large-scale infrastructure. In the panel discussion, we will detail how the WORKS community should take a synergistic approach bringing together workflows, data, artificial intelligence, and humans, grounded in transparency and trust, to advance scientific discoveries. We propose two ideas for discussion: comprehensive adoption of UX methods within the workflow community and, in tandem, the application of higher level UI design patterns to streamline the creation of science-tailored workflow UIs while preserving known successful interaction patterns and design principles. We detail our current efforts in the next sections and aim to use the panel to foster discussion in the community.