ITR/IM: Labscape: Ubiquitous Computing for Experiment Capture in the Biology Laboratory

ITR/IM：Labscape：生物实验室实验捕获的普适计算

• 批准号: 0112997
• 负责人: Gaetano Borriello
• 金额: $ 34.92万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0112997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; IM; Labscape; Ubiquitous; Computing

The objective of Labscape is to enable individual lab workers to contribute to a fine-grained formal representation of ongoing lab activities i.e., 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 possible for manual entry systems, varied and novel applications can be supported. This research supports the development of both an effective scientific working environment and an effective scientific learning environment but supporting better artifacts arising from the work or learning.. There are two primary research thrusts of this proposal. The first is the highly domain specific question of how and what data should be captured in the physical context of performing an experiment -- this is both a data representation and a human-computer interaction problem. The required domain expertise is derived from close cooperation with the University of Washington's Cell Systems Initiative (CSI) and its corporate and academic affiliates. The second question is how to obtain good system properties in distributed laboratory environments characterized by high degrees of device and personal mobility. For this application, security, reliability, and functional extensibility are some of the most important properties. These issues will be investigated in concert with UW's Portolano program whose objective is to develop general device, networking, middleware, and programming technologies for ubiquitous computing applications.

拉布斯普的目标是使个别实验室工作人员能够为正在进行的实验室活动的细粒度正式表示做出贡献，即通过做工作来建立数据库，而不必停下来并将东西写在笔记本上或将信息输入计算机。通过消除做工作的冗余，然后记录下来，准确性和完整性将得到提高。而且，通过以比手动输入系统可能的更详细的方式捕获信息，可以支持各种新颖的应用。这项研究支持有效的科学工作环境和有效的科学学习环境的发展，但支持工作或学习产生的更好的人工制品。这项提议有两个主要的研究重点。第一个是高度领域特定的问题，即在执行实验的物理环境中应该如何以及应该捕获什么数据--这既是一个数据表示问题，也是一个人机交互问题。所需的领域专业知识来自与华盛顿大学的细胞系统倡议(CSI)及其企业和学术附属机构的密切合作。第二个问题是如何在以高度设备和个人移动性为特征的分布式实验室环境中获得良好的系统性能。对于该应用程序，安全性、可靠性和功能可扩展性是一些最重要的属性。这些问题将与UW的Portolano计划一起进行调查，该计划的目标是为无处不在的计算应用开发通用设备、网络、中间件和编程技术。