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TY - CONF AU - Yao, X. AU - Gregory, R.D. AU - Guyotte, G.S. AU - Hartman, S.M. AU - Kasemir, K.-U. AU - Lionberger, C.A. AU - Pearson, M.R. ED - White, Karen S. ED - Brown, Kevin A. ED - Dyer, Philip S. ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - UX Focused Development Work During Recent ORNL EPICS-Based Instrument Control System Upgrade Projects J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2019, New York, NY, USA, 05-11 October 2019 CY - New York, NY, USA T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 17 LA - english AB - The importance of usability and easy-to-use user interfaces (UI) have been recognized across many domains. However, the user-friendliness of scientific experiment control systems often lags behind industry standards in the flourishing user experience (UX) field. Scientific control systems can certainly benefit from these new UX research methods and approaches. Recent instrument control system upgrade projects at the SNS and HFIR facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrate the effectiveness of UX focused development work, and further reveal the need for more utilization of such techniques coming from the UX field. The ongoing control system upgrades are targeting the key facility-level priority of higher scientific productivity, and UX is one of the important tools to help us achieve this priority. We will highlight research methods and practices, introduce our findings and deliverables, and share challenges and lessons learned in applying UX methods to scientific control systems. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 818 EP - 823 KW - controls KW - experiment KW - scattering KW - neutron KW - detector DA - 2020/08 PY - 2020 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-209-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-TUCPR05 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2019/papers/tucpr05.pdf ER -