Labscape: A Smart Environment for the Cell Biology Laboratory
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Electronic laboratory notebooks for collaborative research
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Breaking the book: translating the chemistry lab book into a pervasive computing lab environment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Low-cost multi-touch sensing through frustrated total internal reflection
Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The reacTable*: A Collaborative Musical Instrument
WETICE '06 Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Shadow tracking on multi-touch tables
AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
A multitouch software architecture
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
SurfaceWare: dynamic tagging for Microsoft Surface
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
The eLabBench: an interactive tabletop system for the biology laboratory
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
The eLabBench in the wild: supporting exploration in a molecular biology lab
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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In a molecular biology lab, scientists often need to execute strictly defined sequences of operations, typically mixing specific amounts of reagents. The exact steps require information from various sources, like manuals, websites and own notes. Direct access to a computer at the bench would be highly desirable but is rarely implemented, as computers do not fit well into a wet lab environment. In this paper, we present BioTISCH, an interactive workbench for molecular biology laboratories. We show a prototypical setup of an interactive table which provides a sterile user interface for access to existing documentation and for common tasks such as unit conversions. The example illustrates that interactive tables blend very well into a modern biological laboratory and could improve access and exchange of information in this environment.