abstract

Practicing DIYBiology In An HCI Setting

Authors:

Piyum Fernando,

Matthew Pandelakis,

Stacey KuznetsovAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2064 - 2071

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892325

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Alongside an expanding community of non-professional biologists, DIYbio is beginning to emerge as a fledgling sub- domain of HCI. However, this emerging subdomain is yet to be in the focal point of a long-term investigation to identify the challenges and opportunities of designing interactive systems and tools to facilitate biological practices outside of professional setups. As the first step towards this direc- tion, we carried out an autoethnographic study to practice DIYbiology, by setting up a functional DIYbio space inside our HCI design studio. In this paper we reflect on our auto- biographical experiences in practicing DIYbiology inside our lab space and discuss the challenges and opportunities for further HCI research in this particular subdomain.

References

[1]

Biosafety Levels. http://www.labmanager.com/ lab-health-and-safety/2010/12/biosafety-levels-1--2--3--4

[2]

DIY Incubator. http://biodesign.cc/2013/12/25/diy-incubator/

[3]

DIYBio. http://diybio.org

[4]

Dremelfuge. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1483

[5]

EDVOTEK Quick Guide: Culturing Microorganisms. http://www.edvotek.com/site/pdf/Bacteria_Guide.pdf

[6]

Fritzing. http://fritzing.org

[7]

GenSpace. http://genspace.org

[8]

Inoculating a Liquid Bacterial Culture. https://www.addgene.org/plasmid-protocols/inoculate-bacterial-culture/

[9]

Low cost and accurate incubator for DIY biology. http://www.instructables.com/id/Low-cost-and-accurate-incubator-for-DIY-biology/

[10]

OpenPCR. http://openpcr.org

[11]

Pearl Biotech. http://pearlbiotech.com

[12]

Styrofoam Forced Air Egg Incubator. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-styrofoam-quotstill-airquot-egg-/

[13]

Stacey Kuznetsov, Carrie Doonan, Nathan Wilson, Swarna Mohan, Scott E. Hudson, and Eric Paulos. 2015. DIYbio Things: Open Source Biology Tools As Platforms for Hybrid Knowledge Production and Scientific Participation. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4065- 4068.

Digital Library

[14]

Stacey Kuznetsov and Eric Paulos. 2010. Rise of the Expert Amateur: DIY Projects, Communities, and Cultures. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (NordiCHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 295-304.

Digital Library

[15]

Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex S. Taylor, Tim Regan, Nicolas Villar, and Eric Paulos. 2012. At the Seams: DIYbio and Opportunities for HCI. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 258-267.

Digital Library

[16]

David A. Mellis and Leah Buechley. 2014. Do-it-yourself Cellphones: An Investigation into the Possibilities and Limits of High-tech Diy. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1723- 1732.

Digital Library

[17]

Carman Neustaedter and Phoebe Sengers. 2012. Autobiographical Design in HCI Research: Designing and Learning Through Use-it-yourself. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 514-523.

Digital Library

[18]

Oded Nov, Ofer Arazy, and David Anderson. 2011. Dusting for Science: Motivation and Participation of Digital Citizen Science Volunteers. In Proceedings of the 2011 iConference (iConference '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 68-74. 1940761.1940771

Digital Library

[19]

Aisling Ann O'Kane, Yvonne Rogers, and Ann E. Blandford. 2014. Gaining Empathy for Non-routine Mobile Device Use Through Autoethnography. In Proceedings of the 32Nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 987-990.

Digital Library

[20]

Eric Paulos. 2012. You Amateur! interactions 19, 1 (Jan. 2012), 52-57. 2065327.2065338

Digital Library

[21]

Sebastiaan Pijnappel and Florian Mueller. 2013. 4 Design Themes for Skateboarding. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1271-1274.

Digital Library

[22]

Steven Schkolne, Hiroshi Ishii, and Peter Schroder. 2004. Immersive Design of DNA Molecules with a Tangible Interface. In Proceedings of the Conference on Visualization '04 (VIS '04). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 227-234.

Digital Library

[23]

Orit Shaer, Guy Kol, Megan Strait, Chloe Fan, Catherine Grevet, and Sarah Elfenbein. 2010. G-nome Surfer: A Tabletop Interface for Collaborative Exploration of Genomic Data. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1427-1436.

Digital Library

[24]

Robert Simpson, Kevin R. Page, and David De Roure. 2014. Zooniverse: Observing the World's Largest Citizen Science Platform. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '14 Companion). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 1049-1054.

Digital Library

[25]

Ramine Tinati, Max Van Kleek, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Robert Simpson, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2015. Designing for Citizen Data Analysis: A Cross-Sectional Case Study of a Multi-Domain Citizen Science Platform. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4069-4078.

Digital Library

[26]

Tiffany Tseng and Mitchel Resnick. 2014. Product Versus Process: Representing and Appropriating DIY Projects Online. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 425-428.

Digital Library

[27]

Consuelo Valdes, Michelle Ferreirae, Taili Feng, Heidi Wang, Kelsey Tempel, Sirui Liu, and Orit Shaer. 2012. A Collaborative Environment for Engaging Novices in Scientific Inquiry. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 109-118.

Digital Library

[28]

Nicolas Villar, James Scott, and Steve Hodges. 2011. Prototyping with Microsoft. Net Gadgeteer. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 377-380.

Digital Library

[29]

Ron Wakkary, Markus Lorenz Schilling, Matthew A. Dalton, Sabrina Hauser, Audrey Desjardins, Xiao Zhang, and Henry W.J. Lin. 2015. Tutorial Authorship and Hybrid Designers: The Joy (and Frustration) of DIY Tutorials. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 609-618.

Digital Library

[30]

Andrea Wiggins. 2010. Crowd-sourcing Science: Organizing Virtual Participation in Knowledge Production. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 337-338.

Digital Library

Cited By

Naito EBotero A(2024)Growing Conditions for Growing: Infrastructures for Designing with Living Organisms in Fabrication SettingsProceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3679318.3685389(1-14)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3679318.3685389
Väkevä JMekler ELindqvist J(2024)From Disorientation to Harmony: Autoethnographic Insights into Transformative Videogame ExperiencesProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642543(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642543
Song KPaulos E(2023)Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy StorageProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581110(1-18)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581110
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Practicing DIYBiology In An HCI Setting
1. Human-centered computing

Recommendations

(DIY)biology and opportunities for HCI
DIS '12: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Over the past decade, a diverse community of biologists, artists, engineers and hobbyists has emerged to pursue biology projects outside of traditional laboratories. Though still in its nascent form, this DIYbio (Do It Yourself Biology) movement has ...
At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI
DIS '12: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference

DIYbio (Do It Yourself Biology) aims to 'open source', tinker and experiment with biology outside of professional settings. In this paper, we present the origins, practices, and challenges of DIYbio initiatives around the world. Our findings depict ...
“Short on time and big on ideas”: Perspectives from Lab Members on DIYBio Work in Community Biolabs
DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

DIYbio challenges the status quo by positioning laboratory biology work outside of traditional institutions. HCI has increasingly explored the DIYbio movement, but we lack insight into sites of practice such as community biolabs. Therefore, we gathered ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2016

3954 pages

ISBN:9781450340823

DOI:10.1145/2851581

General Chairs:
Jofish Kaye
Yahoo
,
Allison Druin
University of Maryland / National Park Service
,
Program Chairs:
Cliff Lampe
University of Michigan
,
Dan Morris
Microsoft
,
Juan Pablo Hourcade
University of Iowa

Copyright © 2016 Owner/Author.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Sponsors

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 07 May 2016

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Abstract

Conference

CHI'16

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

CHI'16: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 7 - 12, 2016

California, San Jose, USA

Acceptance Rates

CHI EA '16 Paper Acceptance Rate 1,000 of 5,000 submissions, 20%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 6,164 of 23,696 submissions, 26%

Upcoming Conference

CHI '25

Sponsor:
sigchi

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 26 - May 1, 2025

Yokohama , Japan

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

13
Total Citations
View Citations
311
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)44
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)3

Reflects downloads up to 18 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Naito EBotero A(2024)Growing Conditions for Growing: Infrastructures for Designing with Living Organisms in Fabrication SettingsProceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3679318.3685389(1-14)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3679318.3685389
Väkevä JMekler ELindqvist J(2024)From Disorientation to Harmony: Autoethnographic Insights into Transformative Videogame ExperiencesProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642543(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642543
Song KPaulos E(2023)Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy StorageProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581110(1-18)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581110
Li ELam AFuhrmann TErikson LWirth MMiller MBlikstein PRiedel-Kruse I(2022)DIY liquid handling robots for integrated STEM education and life science researchPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.027568817:11(e0275688)Online publication date: 9-Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275688
de Lange ODunn KPeek N(2022)“Short on time and big on ideas”: Perspectives from Lab Members on DIYBio Work in Community BiolabsProceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3532106.3533521(1358-1376)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532106.3533521
Cooney SRaghavan B(2022)Opening the Gate to Urban Repair: A Tool for Citizen-Led DesignProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35129526:CSCW1(1-25)Online publication date: 7-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3512952
Asgarali-Hoffman SHamidi FKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Perspectives of Bioartists and Community Lab Organizers on Working with Living OrganismsProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445060(1-15)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445060
Pataranutaporn PVujic AKong DMaes PSra MZhou BCheng JStrohmeier PIshimaru SKosch T(2020)Living BitsProceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference10.1145/3384657.3384783(1-12)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3384657.3384783
Fernando PKuznetsov SBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)OScH in the Wild: Dissemination of Open Science Hardware and Implications for HCIProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376659(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376659
Fernando PDow SMaher MKerne ALatulipe C(2019)Tools for Public Participation in ScienceProceedings of the 2019 Conference on Creativity and Cognition10.1145/3325480.3326560(697-701)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3325480.3326560
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents