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20/09/2025, 08:00
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Chris Roderick (CERN), Stephane Deghaye (CERN)20/09/2025, 08:50
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20/09/2025, 09:00
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Madelyn Polzin20/09/2025, 11:00
As an application is designed and developed, it is key to get feedback early from the users. Incorporating users in your process ensures that you build an application that not only meets the needs of your users, but also an application that users want to use. Early prototyping can be a valuable tool used to get feedback quickly, and can save time and effort in the long run. Prototyping helps...
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Dr Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun (DESY)20/09/2025, 11:20
User-centered design is essential for scientific GUIs, in which complex workflows and time pressure often challenge usability. Understanding the types of users and responding to their needs leads to increased productivity, higher user satisfaction, and supports building a broader user community.
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Anti Asko (CERN)20/09/2025, 11:40
Accelerator controls applications often include multiple complex workflows intertwined together, which can result in GUIs that are counter-intuitive. While increasing effort is being invested in user interviews, mock-up demonstrations, and prototyping, these methods are not always sufficient. Furthermore, many tools have been developed over the years based on past user feedback, which may no...
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Cammille Carinan20/09/2025, 12:00
At the European XFEL, as part of the facility's Strategy 2030+, we've established a cross-functional working group to optimize beamline operator workflows by improving user interfaces and implementing strategic automation. We started by having semi-structured conversations with instrument scientists to understand the current state and define the project scope. Clear patterns emerged:...
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Madelyn Polzin20/09/2025, 14:00
Customization in control system applications can empower users to build solutions that fit their needs on a personal level. However, customization can also impact the usability of an application. This presentation is intended to start the conversation on the power of customization and finding a solution that works for your lab and your users.
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Madelyn Polzin, Seij De Leon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Tiffany Tran (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)20/09/2025, 14:20
During February 26–28, 2025, the first-ever particle accelerator user interface/user experience (UI/UX) workshop was held at SLAC. Attendees had backgrounds ranging from software development to control systems management and human factors science. The workshop began with participants discussing the current state of UI/UX procedures and practices at their respective laboratories to share...
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Jan Wyzula (PSI)20/09/2025, 14:40
BEC Widgets is a modular Qt6 (PySide6) GUI framework developed to streamline usage of Beamline Experiment Control (BEC) at the Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute. Emphasizing plug-and-play functionality and rapid adaptability, it enhances scientific workflows by allowing dynamic reconfiguration of interfaces—even during live experiments.
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Built from independent widget components, BEC... -
Seij De Leon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)20/09/2025, 15:00
At the Advanced Light Source new strategies are being employed to create maintainable web-based controls and data analysis applications for Bluesky beamlines. Our approach centers on creating modular library components available in different software languages that address requirements shared across multiple beamlines. A combination of modern tooling and packaging systems has enabled a...
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Epameinondas Galatas (CERN)20/09/2025, 16:00
The Web Rapid Application development Platform (WRAP) developed at CERN, has been used extensively the past few years by a users across the organization to create applications for monitoring and control of their equipment. However, user feedback identified the inability to define custom, user-specific, logic for data manipulation as a major bottleneck. We'll present how this functionality was...
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Carla Caldeira Takahashi, Yimeng Li20/09/2025, 16:25
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Keenan Lang (Argonne National Laboratory)20/09/2025, 16:50
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Epameinondas Galatas (CERN)20/09/2025, 17:10
For the last 20 years, information, monitoring, and control of beamline elements has been done using tabular UIs. We'll demonstrate how using the same information on the backend, we can construct a new UI that matches the physical layout of the beamline: Synoptics. The result is both more information dense and more intuative for users. Two use cases will be presented, one for geometric...
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Robert Nagler (RadiaSoft)20/09/2025, 17:30
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Chris Roderick (CERN), Stephane Deghaye (CERN)20/09/2025, 17:50
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