Selection of recent projects
Researcher Operating System §
Elsevier’s Research Operating System provides an integrated, central workspace (‘dashboard’) for scientific research, authoring, and publishing.
The ROS houses amongst others a literature library, user profile with extended networking features, scrapbook and note-taking abilities, currency awareness (stay informed in scientific domain or discipline), alerts, search, and an improved author submission and review workflow.
Brief §
Look at current researcher workflows, its future plans and consider past user research to improve these workflows. This can mean both the reduction of or the addition of features and/or the housing of features from different products in one central workspace.
Create significant efficiencies in the submission process for both authors and for Elsevier.
Create broader future concepts to improve these workflows. Review what steps in products and their workflows can be optimized or made more intuitive.
Deliver an HTML/CSS prototype to acquire feedback on the value of the concept and how to change and adapt it.
Deliverables §
Concepts
Interface prototype
PDF to HTML generation
Annotation and highlighting functionality
Scrapbook and note-taking functionality
Browser plugin
