Ubiquitous Computing in the Biology Laboratory
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in SLAS Technology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 66-70
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1535-5535(04)00119-4
Abstract
Our objective is to eliminate the digital divide that persists between the physical and information spaces of wet-lab based enterprises by embedding computational resources into the shared laboratory environment. Our first challenge is to enable individual lab workers to contribute to a fine-grained formal representation of ongoing lab activities - to build the database by doing the work , without having to stop and write things down in a notebook or to enter information into a computer. By eliminating the redundancy of doing the work and then recording it, accuracy and completeness will be improved. And, by capturing information at a finer detail than is practical for manual entry systems, unanticipated applications can be supported.Keywords
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