Personal Experiences of Providing and Using Research Prototypes
Description:
I report on my personal experiences as a student, researcher, supervisor, and collaborator about providing and using research prototype software (i.e., demos). Based on an analysis of my own research activities in computer graphics and visualization, I discuss problems of providing demo software for our own projects, problems of running such software years after the release, and problems of accessing such prototypes after several years. I conclude that both source code and demos should be encouraged, provide some recommendations on how to do the latter, and call for a more active support of sharing this part of a scientific contribution within the Open Science movement.
Tobias Isenberg (2022) Personal Experiences of Providing and Using Research Prototypes. In Christina Gillmann, Michael Krone, Guido Reina, and Thomas Wischgoll, eds., Proceedings of VisGap – The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software (Workshop at EuroVis). Eurographics Association, Goslar, Germany, pages 17–22, 2022.