Application Usability Levels: A Framework for Tracking Project Product Progress
Abstract
The space physics community continues to grow and become both more interdisciplinary and more intertwined with commercial and government operations. This has created a need for a framework to easily identify what projects can be used for specific applications and how close the tool is to routine autonomous or on-demand implementation and operation. We propose the Application Usability Level (AUL) framework and publicizing AULs to help the community quantify the progress of successful applications, metrics, and validation efforts. This framework will also aid the scientific community by supplying the type of information needed to build off of previously published work and publicizing the applications and requirements needed by the user communities. In this paper, we define the AUL framework, outline the milestones required for progression to higher AULs, and provide example projects utilizing the AUL framework. This work has been completed as part of the activities of the Assessment of Understanding and Quantifying Progress working group which is part of the International Forum for Space Weather Capabilities Assessment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.08663,
title = {Application Usability Levels: A Framework for Tracking Project Product Progress},
author = {Alexa J. Halford and Adam C. Kellerman and Katherine Garcia-Sage and Jeffrey Klenzing and Brett A. Carter and Ryan M. McGranaghan and Timothy Guild and Consuelo Cid and Carl J. Henney and Natalia Y. Ganushkina and Angeline G. Burrell and Mike Terkildsen and Daniel T. Welling and Sophie A. Murray and K. D. Leka and James P. McCollough and Barbara J. Thompson and Antti Pulkkinen and Shing F. Fung and Suzy Bingham and Mario M. Bisi and Michael W. Liemohn and Brian M. Walsh and Steven K. Morley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.08663},
year = {2019}
}