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Research & literature on formal HCI methods for designing usable software. A couple references on user-centered design and one on the more recent activity theory.
Pea, Roy D. "User centered system design: new perspectives on human-computer interaction." Journal educational computing research 3 (1987): 129-134.
Abras, Chadia, Diane Maloney-Krichmar, and Jenny Preece. "User-centered design." Bainbridge, W. Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications 37.4 (2004): 445-456.
Nardi, Bonnie A. Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction. MIT Press, 1996.
Also on usability [Edit]: Nielsen, Jakob, and Rolf Molich. "Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces." Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 1990.
Nielsen, Jakob. "Heuristic evaluation." Usability inspection methods 17.1 (1994): 25-62.
Queiroz, Francisco and Rejane Spitz. 2016. "The Lens of the Lab: Design Challenges in Scientific Software" The International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice 10 (3): pp.17-45.
Ferguson, Holly T., Sandra Gesing, and Jarek Nabrzyski. "Measuring usability in decision tools supporting collaborations for environmental disaster response." 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). IEEE, 2016.
Beg, Marijan, Ryan A. Pepper, and Hans Fangohr. "User interfaces for computational science: a domain specific language for OOMMF embedded in Python." arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.07432 (2016).
A good paper on scientific software usability just came out: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005265
Please feel free to add new material / information on the subject.
Topics that could be addressed:
Case Studies
Best Practices identified /collected from references