One possible factor is that optical fiber sensors are often developed with insufficient input from the end user community, such as experts in nondestructive testing, structural engineering, and business considerations of fleet managers.
Many stakeholders are commonly involved in a purchase: a CIO, CFO, head of procurement, facilities manager, and leaders of the end-user communities.
However, DSSs often fail due to poor engagement of stakeholder and end-user communities in the development and design of systems.
Participation of stakeholders in the design process beyond a basic level of consultation is essential for promoting trust in modelled outputs and accelerating eventual uptake of resulting tools and models by end-user communities.
We analyze three strategies aimed at supporting acceptance and surmounting political, organizational and personal distrust or skepticism: participatory design, advanced collaborative tools inducing cognitive absorption, and end-user communities of practice.
Practical methods and metrics are needed to assist battery development and end-user communities in the area of battery aging, in particular, understanding capacity loss in Li-ion cells.
"We consulted with experts in the field, as well as end-user communities, to help us tailor this section of the Toolkit to help urban and suburban planners meet a wide range of climate-related issues threatening our nation's built environments," says Dr. Nancy Beller-Simms, program manager in NOAA's Climate Program Office and one of Keenan's principal project collaborators.
For the national security community to realize return on its informatics investments, proponents of such methodologies must pay far greater attention to the characteristics of end-user communities.
In this context, one can also consider the example of manual curation and data sharing process used by BIGG database, which integrate the huge collection of several published genome-scale metabolic data into a single location and further uses standard nomenclature to share those data across a large number of database end-users communities.
Performing the most time consuming tasks up front (steps one and two) allows for fast web-based lookup access by the end-user community.
