"Short on time and big on ideas": Perspectives from Lab Members on DIYBio Work in Community Biolabs
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"Short on time and big on ideas" : Perspectives from Lab Members on DIYBio Work in Community Biolabs. / De Lange, Orlando; Dunn, Kellie; Peek, Nadya.
DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 1358-1376.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - "Short on time and big on ideas"
T2 - 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, DIS 2022
AU - De Lange, Orlando
AU - Dunn, Kellie
AU - Peek, Nadya
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Owner/Author.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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 data on eleven community biolabs by interviewing sixteen lab managers and members. These labs represent half of identified organizations in scope worldwide. Participants detailed their practices and motivations, outlining the constraints and opportunities of their community biolabs. We found that lab members conducted technically challenging project work with access to high-end equipment and professional expertise. We found that the unique nature of biowork exacerbated challenges for cooperative work, partially due to the particular time sensitivities of work with living organisms. Building on our findings, we discuss how community biolab members are creating new approaches to laboratory biology and how this has design implications for systems that support non-traditional settings for scientific practice.
AB - 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 data on eleven community biolabs by interviewing sixteen lab managers and members. These labs represent half of identified organizations in scope worldwide. Participants detailed their practices and motivations, outlining the constraints and opportunities of their community biolabs. We found that lab members conducted technically challenging project work with access to high-end equipment and professional expertise. We found that the unique nature of biowork exacerbated challenges for cooperative work, partially due to the particular time sensitivities of work with living organisms. Building on our findings, we discuss how community biolab members are creating new approaches to laboratory biology and how this has design implications for systems that support non-traditional settings for scientific practice.
KW - citizen science
KW - community biolab
KW - community labs
KW - DIY
KW - DIYbio
KW - laboratory science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133585733&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3532106.3533521
DO - 10.1145/3532106.3533521
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85133585733
SP - 1358
EP - 1376
BT - DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 13 June 2022 through 17 June 2022
ER -
ID: 339328806