Abstract
CEUR-WS.org is a widely used open access repository for computer science workshop proceedings. To publish a proceedings volume there, workshop organisers have to follow a complex, error-prone workflow, which mainly involves the creation and submission of an HTML table of contents. With ceur-make we had previously provided a command-line tool for partially automating this workflow. However, in a recent usability evaluation we confirmed that the tool is difficult to learn, highly dependent on other software, not portable and hard to use. We sought to solve these issues with a web-based user interface, which we present here. A usability evaluation of the latter proves significant improvements.
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EasyChair has so far been used to manage 53,739 events and has had 1,954,080 users (http://www.easychair.org/users.cgi, accessed 2017-04-18).
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For now, we only implemented the list of proceedings volumes as a hard-coded mockup for the purpose of evaluating the usability of our user interface design.
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Among them we would have preferred to have some with ceur-make experience, but this proved infeasible given the small number of people who had ever used it.
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Asmat, M.R.A., Lange, C. (2017). CEUR Make GUI - A Usable Web Frontend Supporting the Workflow of Publishing Proceedings of Scientific Workshops. In: Kirikova, M., et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 767. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67162-8_16
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