“Prove It!” A User-centric Client for the Blockchain-Based Research Lifecycle Transparency Framework

This work develops a user-centric interface for an existing blockchain-based research transparency framework. As researchers in different disciplines may have different research data management and reproducibility needs, we first conducted an exploratory study to comprehend their motivations and expectations when managing research records. We analyzed data from a design thinking workshop with 17 participants and conducted six interviews. We have three critical components in a user-centric interface design: 1) user-decided autonomy, 2) a progress dashboard, and 3) research-team management. In the future, we would like to build an scholarly information ecosystem that fosters safe research lifecycle transparency with the assistance of technology. Thus, we plan to accumulate more interview data from different fields to improve the design of the user-centric client. Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology | Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2022 | Pittsburgh, PA. Author(s) retain copyright, but ASIS&T receives an exclusive publication license.