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Team:Wellesley Desyne/Notebook/TiffanyNotebook
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Tiffany's Notebook
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Week 1: May 28 - May 31
Tuesday: First day of the iGem summer program in the HCI lab at Wellesley College! I've worked through the majority of the assigned readings. I was assigned to work on the Eugene DeSyne team along with Catherine, Evan, and Sravanti.
Thursday: The team went to MIT for a BioBuilder workshop with Natalie Kuldell, but as a graduating senior, I had previous obligations and did not attend. According to the rest of the team, it was an interesting day.
Friday: Graduation Day! I received my BA in Biological Sciences.
Week 2: June 3 - June 7
Monday: The whole Wellesley iGem team went to Boston University to meet with the BU iGem team and learn more about the biology behind synthetic biology. As a biological sciences major, it was a bit of a relief to listen to some biology concepts that were easy to understand compared to the computer science ones that I was learning very slowly as I went along. We learned about Eugene, the coding language that the BU iGem team currently uses to find the possible permutations for their synthetic biology circuits. The Wellesley and BU iGem teams split up into mixed teams to try and code some example circuits into Eugene ourselves.
Tuesday: Day two of BU iGem, we presented our projects to the BU team. We asked them to give us their comments and suggestions about how we could more tailor our projects our audience. Some aspects of our projects were met with a little bit of skepticism and criticism, but the Wellesley team took it in stride because we were still in the design process and things were still in the process of changing.
Wednesday: Today, Sravanti joined the Eugene Desyne team! The team began to work on paper prototypes for the user interface we wanted for the project. I did not spend too long working on this as I needed to help conduct gesture studies for another project, Tabula. For the gesture studies, we asked participants to pretend to conduct certain tasks using either an upright or a horizontal touch interface along with Sifteo cubes, and recorded their thought processes and gestures. I was mainly responsible for recording the gestures and created a form to record everything in as uniform a manner as possible. As we went through the three user studies for the day, I noticed how I changed in how I chose to record gestures in order to record more quickly and accurately.
Thursday: More user-studies for Tabula. While there are a set of very common gestures that people generally use, there are certain individuals that approach the tasks that they are set to in a very interesting manner that we do not see from any of the other participants thus far. Also, as a lab at a women's college, we have certain difficulties in recruiting enough cis-gender males to participate in our studies so we have been using our personal connections to try and rustle some up.
Friday: Yet more user-studies for tabula.
Week 3: June 10 - June 14
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Week 4: June 17 - June 21
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Week 5: June 24 - June 28
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