UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering School of Electronics and Computer Science Web and Internet Science Group Software Evaluation Focus Group Transcripts by Samantha Kanza ([email protected]) October 2017 - November 2017 A Software Evaluation Study, conducted as part of a PhD in Web Science: Computer Science & Chemistry CONTENTS CONTENTS Contents 1 Trial Focus Group 2 2 Chemistry Focus Group 22 2.1 Introduction - Explaining the purpose of the system . 22 2.2 Question 1 . 23 2.2.1 Question 1a . 23 2.2.2 Question 1b,1c . 24 2.3 Question 2 . 26 2.3.1 Question 2a, 2b, 2c . 26 2.3.2 Question 2d, 2e . 32 2.3.3 Question 2f . 36 2.4 Question 3 . 38 2.4.1 Question 3a, 3b, 3c . 38 2.5 Question 4 . 41 2.5.1 Question 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d . 41 2.6 Question 5 . 43 2.7 Question 6 . 46 2.8 Question 7 . 47 2.9 Question 8 . 48 2.10 Question 9 . 49 2.11 Question 10 . 50 3 Physics Focus Group 51 3.1 Introduction - Explaining the purpose of the system . 51 3.2 Question 1 . 52 3.2.1 Question 1 . 52 3.2.2 Question 1b . 52 3.2.3 Question 1c . 53 3.3 Question 2 . 55 3.3.1 Question 2a . 55 3.3.2 Question 2b . 56 3.3.3 Question 2c . 56 3.3.4 Question 2d . 56 3.3.5 Question 2e . 57 3.3.6 Question 2f . 58 3.4 Question 3 . 58 3.4.1 Question 3a . 58 3.4.2 Question 3b, 3c . 58 3.5 Question 4 . 59 3.5.1 Question 4a . 59 3.5.2 Question 4b . 60 3.5.3 Question 4c . 60 3.5.4 Question 4d . 61 i CONTENTS CONTENTS 3.6 Question 5 . 61 3.7 Question 6 . 63 3.8 Question 7 . 64 3.9 Question 8 . 65 3.10 Question 9 . 65 3.11 Question 10 . 66 4 Biology Focus Group 68 4.1 Introduction - Explaining the purpose of the system . 68 4.2 Question 1 . 69 4.3 Question 1 . 69 4.3.1 Question 1b . 69 4.3.2 Question 1c . 70 4.4 Question 2 . 71 4.4.1 Question 2a . 71 4.4.2 Question 2b . 72 4.4.3 Question 2c . 72 4.4.4 Question 2d . 72 4.4.5 Question 2e . 73 4.4.6 Question 2f . 73 4.5 Question 3 . 74 4.5.1 Question 3a . 74 4.5.2 Question 3b, 3c . 75 4.6 Question 4 . 76 4.6.1 Question 4a . 76 4.6.2 Question 4b . 76 4.6.3 Question 4c . 76 4.6.4 Question 4d . 77 4.7 Question 5 . 78 4.8 Question 6 . 79 4.9 Question 7 . 79 4.10 Question 8 . 82 4.11 Question 9 . 82 4.12 Question 10 . 83 1 1 TRIAL FOCUS GROUP 1 Trial Focus Group This trial focus group was conduced on 31/10/2017 and comprised of 3 scientists (Participants A. B & R). The following colour key is used for the Participants and Focus Group Leader: Focus Group Leader Participant A Participant B Participant R Focus Group Leader: This is a trial focus group to figure out if this is the best way to run these software evaluation focus groups and to see if everything makes sense and whether anything has been missed. Focus Group Leader: Do you think it would be better to have this up on a projector and have everyone look at it together, so bear in mind all of your documents are going to get put in a test google account which this hooks up to, but do you think it would be better to have this up on a projector, we can all look at it together and people can take over the mouse and keyboard etc, or make everyone bring laptops and have everyone load the software individually. Participant A: First option I reckon Participant B: Yeah Participant A: getting everyone to bring laptops would be tricky, there's always 20 minutes of oh can you load it? Oh I can't load it. are you on the network?....no I'm not on the network..why isn't it not working..etc Participant R: Not to mention I don't have a laptop I only have my desktop Participant A: You could get a smart board and just pass stuff around. Participant R: Yeah. Focus Group Leader: When I run through this we're going to talk about the general evaluation of the software and then talk about some ELN stuff after that. The first question I'm going to be asking is: What type of document have you bought and how typical a representation of your working document is it. That's just generally for you guys to say what it is and how confident you are about your ability to tell me about it. Then I'm just going to ask some general questions like how much of your documents are usually made out of words and pictures and diagrams, and what formats are they usually in. So that's because as you can see at the moment this is quite text based and it is obviously harder to pull through documents that have images etc, you lose some of that information so I'm trying to get out of you guys how to typical maybe these documents are and how likely I am to have to deal with images etc and then how that might affect the usefulness of the system. Do you think that sounds reasonable or do you think there's anything else in that area that I might have missed? Participant A: I'm very much a, if I'm doing something like jogging my memory if it's like a setup or.