Research-Hub is a social network platform designed to support research collaboration and communication. It comes from the project INF which belongs to the research group SFB1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen.

As a student assistant, I supported the design of Research-Hub, especially on a module of the Research-Hub called Data Story. My contributions were: Conceputual design, UI design, Prototyping, Video making.

A redesign of Research-Hub:

Ideation and design of the Data Story module:

Research data is oftentimes not well organized and without context. This makes shared research data hard to comprehend and therefore undermines the practice of data sharing.

Data Story module is designed for data curation and sharing. It helps researchers to transfer their research data into a data story, a form that is much more understandable. It takes the notion of a “story” as a design metaphor. The idea of "storyline" inspired the representation of research data in the Data Story module.

The Data Story module is still at the early stage of development. More about Data Story: paper, prototype v1, prototype v2.

Video tutorial for the Research-Hub user: