{"id":"2ca08785-40e4-4645-a3c1-0ee74eea9bc7","kind":"sos","name":"Working With (and Around) Research Infrastructure for Excellent Citizen Science – Understanding User Stories and Needs","slug":"how-research-tools-actually-break-user-stories-fro","url":"https://api.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/event/2ca08785-40e4-4645-a3c1-0ee74eea9bc7/?format=json","track":null,"assembly":"sos","room":"d477e5d4-4700-4317-896c-ca39c0720eed","location":null,"language":"en, de","description":"## Session Description\r\n\r\nWe constantly build, use, maintain, and adapt physical and digital tools and infrastructures — both inside and outside formal institutions, and far beyond classical environmental citizen science.\r\n\r\nThis session invites participants involved in **community projects** to share concrete **user stories** about how they actually work:\r\n- what they try to do,\r\n- what doesn’t work,\r\n- what they avoid using,\r\n- what they need,\r\n- and why.\r\n\r\nRather than presenting solutions or pitching an infrastructure, the session focuses on:\r\n\r\n### Session Focus\r\n- **Lived practices and workflows**\r\n- **Shared experiences and bottlenecks** in maintaining infrastructure\r\n- **Research activities within communities**, including success stories\r\n- **Trust issues and refusals** related to infrastructure services\r\n- **Boundaries around data, governance, and centralisation**, with concrete project examples\r\n\r\n### Method\r\nParticipants will fill in short **user stories based on real situations**.  \r\nThese stories will be **anonymised** and analysed to identify patterns that can inform the **early design of a future research infrastructure (RIECS)** — before assumptions harden into technical or governance choices.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## About the Project\r\n\r\n**RIECS-Concept Project** (CORDIS)  \r\n🔗 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101188210/de\r\n\r\n### Connect with RIECS-Concept\r\nFollow us on Mastodon:  \r\n🔗 https://mastodon.social/@riecs_concept\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## Get Involved\r\n\r\n**Shape the future of Research Infrastructure for Excellent Citizen Science in Europe**\r\n\r\n👉 Sign up to be interviewed:  \r\n🔗 https://forms.gle/uVpB2uL6j8eufdZVA","schedule_start":"2025-12-30T10:30:00+01:00","schedule_duration":"00:50:00","schedule_end":"2025-12-30T11:20:00+01:00"}