SynFlo final Product

SynFlo is one of the the project we worked on and the main one I focused on.

Poster Presentation and Demo and TShirts!

With our Tshirts you could spot us from afar!

 Thanks for an awesome summer!!

D1 Introductions and Beasting

This summer we have three returning members including myself as a CS/ART/Neuro student, a CS/Physics student, and a Biology student. Otherwise, we are welcoming one Art student, two biology students, one CS students, and two possible Econ/CS students. All lead by our research fellow, Consuelo who graduated with my same major, Media Arts and Sciences. 
As you can see our lab is very interdisciplinary and will draw from the talents our all our students to Synthetic Biologists efficient tools!

• We started our day off with "orientation" where we introduced the lab and some tools and hardware we use.
• Then we where assigned focus groups to research on
• Then another student and I got working to attack the Beast.

Wellesley's HCI lab is focused on the study and innovation of next generation technology involving tangible,  tabletop, and embodied user interfaces. Along with being able to develop and design with commerlized iPods, iPads, other mobile devices, kinect cameras, and projectors, we also utilized the Microsoft Surface.


In particular my first two weeks are going to be:

1.  researching what past macro interactions have been performed on multitouch table tops to help our lab design applications to go on large multitouch table tops, like the Beast
2. researching and designing an synthetic biology informed interactive art installation.

I'm also, with another student, in charge of 1) maintaining our lab's web presence in the form of Wellelsey's HCI lab site and our upcoming wiki for iGem and 2) organizing our lab's social events. Read more about some of these in my other blog. 

Other projects the lab is researching includes:

• Micro interactions above, around, on the Beast
• Semantic search capabilities, options, and functions
•  past iGem projects, a synthic biologist's workflow, and idea for an eLabNotebook.

These are all collaborative projects with at least one specified student but, as the HCI lab nature is collaborative we will all be sharing ideas and helping each other out.


The rest of the day was spend fight our Beast, our home grown conference sized multitouch table top. Being the largest known tabletop lends itself to many difficulties but today was a good day. 

Preface

summer plans

This past year, I have been working in the Wellesley College HCI lab under Orit Shaer and will continue this summer. 

For the second time, our lab is participating in iGEM, the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition where we will be designing software on advanced hardware to assist synthetic biologist in their wet labs.

Wellesley iGEM Logos from last year representing designed software: 




Tomorrow is the first day where we will be welcoming six new people into the lab from CS, Art, and Biology disciplines!


I look forward to what we software we will design and develop and will be posting about our research and User Oriented design process!