Eluru Maheswari, Potturu Aishwarya S, Scotch Matthew, Allen Lisa, Osgood Nancy, Tello Ana, Grando Adela
College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, US.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2025 May 22;2024:378-387. eCollection 2024.
Young scientists, including postdocs and assistant professors, need access to grant writing resources for training and proposal development. To assist in this, we developed a web-based research guide providing centralized access to curated tools throughout the research funding process- finding funding, preparing proposals, managing awards, etc. Using consumer informatics principles, we enhanced the research grant repository's effectiveness, with lessons learned and insights generalizable to other institutions. Six faculty members completed nine tasks to explore the guide's ten sections. Participants found the guide highly usable, with an excellent System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 89.2. Suggestions included improving navigation, content organization and providing education on award management processes. Liked features were the chronological organization of information, samples from successful grants, pre-populated templates, and mechanisms for ongoing feedback. These findings underscore the importance of usability in developing resources that effectively support faculty in grant writing and proposal development.
包括博士后和助理教授在内的年轻科学家需要获取资助申请撰写资源，用于培训和提案开发。为了提供帮助，我们开发了一个基于网络的研究指南，在整个研究资金流程（寻找资金、准备提案、管理奖项等）中提供对精选工具的集中访问。我们运用消费者信息学原理，提高了研究资助库的有效性，所吸取的经验教训和见解可推广到其他机构。六位教员完成了九项任务，以探索该指南的十个部分。参与者发现该指南非常实用，系统可用性量表（SUS）得分高达89.2，表现出色。建议包括改进导航、内容组织以及提供关于奖项管理流程的培训。受欢迎的功能包括信息的按时间顺序组织、成功资助的样本、预填充模板以及持续反馈机制。这些发现强调了可用性在开发有效支持教员撰写资助申请和提案的资源方面的重要性。
