Developing Concept-Based User Interfaces for Scientific Computing

Although drawings and graphs can express complex concepts, such methods can't be computationally analyzed. Researchers have developed visual approaches and paradigms that scientists can use to capture and represent scientific models in a computational form that they can link to and integrate with data sets and applications. Our work in concept-based user interfaces is related to ideas and visions used in scientific visualization. This research encourages a transformation of the traditional roles between users and human-computer interaction (HCI) designers in the development of scientific computing systems, as user interfaces are designed to encapsulate more domain-specific and problem-specific ideas and concepts