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| - | Why calming the use of Post-it in a software tool presentation ? We want to mark up the fact that we don't want to replace the Post-it, but we want to try to combine the good of digital and physical support. | + | Why calming the use of Post-it in a software tool presentation ? We want to mark up the fact that we don't want to replace the Post-it, but we want to try to combine the good of digital and physical support. Digital support have a lots of interests; it can be easily reproducible, easily stock and use. Having a protocol automatically generate accessible in the lab and automatically write in the LabBook, even better, using multiple protocols at the same time, and generate a mixed protocols witch optimize time seems very nice. You wanna make a modification, or write something, just say it it will record it for you seems nice too, isn't it ? |
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Tool : iPhone Protocols Managements
this year, we decided to try a tool project. We though about some nice applications and the iPhone idear became quite interesting. Why ? Why, using an iPhone for a biology tool ?
In fact we noticed that a lot of people have an iPhone, and use some applications on it (mostly gadgets), but just take a look on this phone... just wondering if it still a "phone" : 16 to 32 Go hard drive flash / 600MHz CPU / 256Mo Ram / multi-touch display / accelerometer / light sensor / voice record / wifi / bluetooth etc etc... sounds more like a computer to us. And all of this, for playing Dark Vador with the Light Saber sound apps (i like it anyway :) ).
We discuss about the interest of having a small computer in the lab, is it useful? What do we need when we go to the lab? First of, we need to have some physical support for our protocols, the way to keep in mind some changes during the lab work and make some last time calculations. We also need sometimes digital supports like USB storage for some machines, or digital pictures (more and more techniques use a computer for initiate the manipulation, and analyze them like RT-Q-PCR, DNA sequencing, DNA chips...).
Except the Digital support, we can assume that our physical lab work supports are notes used as reminders; temporary short life storages which became (one way or another) copied on the LabBook. These kind of support can be compare to some Pot-it...
The Post-it ... or not
At this time, and i guess a lots of labs do it in this way too, we use papers, pencil and the ultimate useful wipe marker and colored stickers combo. It's flexible, visible, mobile, and also easy and quick to use and modify. Can we put all this techniques on a simple interface? on a 3,5" display? It's a bit tricky to answer this question, but in the first place, the answers is No. In fact, why do we still use a lots of Post-it despite the fact that we have a lots of computers, and communication techniques which can improve our works ?
We won't really discuss on that (I'll be glade, but it will take a lot of time of reading and it's not really the point of this page), to be quick, just assume that we'll prefer using Post-it &Co by cultural habit, and because it's simple and quick, instead of using some complete software with a lots of buttons everywhere (we don't want to lean how to pilot the Millennium Falcon just for an appointment, or because we forgot to mention that we use Mg instead of Ca). it's way more easy to grab a pen and write. Long life to the Post-it!
Why calming the use of Post-it in a software tool presentation ? We want to mark up the fact that we don't want to replace the Post-it, but we want to try to combine the good of digital and physical support. Digital support have a lots of interests; it can be easily reproducible, easily stock and use. Having a protocol automatically generate accessible in the lab and automatically write in the LabBook, even better, using multiple protocols at the same time, and generate a mixed protocols witch optimize time seems very nice. You wanna make a modification, or write something, just say it it will record it for you seems nice too, isn't it ?
