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The eLabBench: an interactive tabletop system for the biology laboratory

Authors:

Aurélien Tabard,

Juan-David Hincapié-Ramos,

Morten Esbensen,

Jakob E. BardramAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Pages 202 - 211

https://doi.org/10.1145/2076354.2076391

Published: 13 November 2011 Publication History

Abstract

We present the eLabBench -- a tabletop system supporting experimental research in the biology laboratory. The eLabBench allows biologists to organize their experiments around the notions of activities and resources, and seamlessly roam information between their office computer and the digital laboratory bench. At the bench, biologists can pull digital resources, annotate them, and interact with hybrid (tangible + digital) objects such as racks of test tubes. This paper focuses on the eLabBench's design, and presents three main contributions: First, based on observations we highlight a set of characteristics digital benches should support in a laboratory. Second, we describe the eLabBench, including a simple implementation of activity-based computing for tabletop environments, with support for activity roaming, note-taking, and hybrid objects. Third, we present preliminary feedback of the eLabBench based on a ongoing deployment in a biology laboratory, and propose a design space definition for the design of single-user, work-oriented, tabletop systems.

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The eLabBench: an interactive tabletop system for the biology laboratory
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Interaction paradigms
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ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

November 2011

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DOI:10.1145/2076354

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