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Breaking the Book: Translating the Chemistry Lab Book into a Pervasive Computing Lab Environment

schraefel, m.c., Hughes, Gareth, Mills, Hugo, Smith, Graham, Payne, Terry and Frey, Jeremy (2004) Breaking the Book: Translating the Chemistry Lab Book into a Pervasive Computing Lab Environment. In, CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 Apr 2004. ACM Press.

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The UK e-Science programme is relying on the evolution of the paper lab book into a pervasive data gathering lab system. To date take up of existing commercial or research lab book replacement systems has not been great. In this paper, we reconsider both the role of the lab book in the experimental cycle, as well as its affective and experiential properties as an artefact, in order to design an e-Science lab book that will be acceptable to the scientists who will use it. To this end we combined and extended existing design analysis models in order to assess the artefact functionally and experientially. We present the approach we developed, the prototype we designed based on our analysis, and the results of the formative study we performed of the artefact in real use. We show that our design elicitation method strongly contributed to the success of our prototype’s take up.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: Event Dates: April 24-29, 2004
Uncontrolled Keywords:Design methods, eScience, pervasive computing
Divisions:Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science
Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Agents, Interactions & Complexity
ePrint ID:258780
Deposited On:21 Jan 2004
Last Modified:06 Mar 2012 17:06
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