Team:Wellesley HCI/Notebook/SiruiNotebook

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Wellesley HCI iGEM Team: Kathy's Notebook

Monday, 6/4: Jumping right back into research, after so much background readings over the weekend! Today we went to the Microsoft Development/Research Center (name?) in cambridge to get a tutorial of Windows 8.
Tuesday, 6/5: Meeting with Natalie in the lab today! INSERT TONS OF PICTURES HERE. What did we learn? Innovations for the ELN....
Wednesday, 6/6: Meeting with Orit on the ELN--> details to follow
Thursday, 6/7: Meeting with Orit about microinteractions--> what did you learn? What's interesting? What's not? Sifteo cubes??
Friday, 6/8:

MIT reflection goes here. Soon.

Brainstorming week!! Powerpoints, what we are thinking about....

Monday, 6/12: Visited BU today and finally met the wetlab members, Shawn and Monique. Did a presentation on the basics of HCI, and also did brainstorming for the development of the ELN. Also, we got a crashcourse on topics in biology to be covered this summer in the lab, as well as the MoClo method, which will be the main focus of the wetlab team this summer, as they will be using it to characterize parts.
Tuesday, 6/13: Brainstorming day #1 at Wellesley---> pictures to follow
Wednesday, 6/14: Brainstorming day #2 at Wellesley---> pictures to follow as well Theme of the summer: create tools that help synthetic biologists troubleshoot in the lab.
Thursday, 6/15:
Friday, 6/16: Interview with Professor Chris A. Thoughts to come....

Monday, 6/18: Interview with prof. Sequiera--> thoughts? more to come...
Tuesday, 6/19:
Wednesday, 6/20:
Thursday, 6/21: paper prototyped the MoClo planner, and started to storyboard it. here's what the first panel looks like:

Here's a panel from the MoClo planner designer that we storyboarded.

Monday, 6/25: Continuing interview transcriptions still. These things take an amazing amount of time.

Also started paper prototyping and developing the transitions for the "shutter" design to be made into a video tomorrow.

Tuesday, 6/26: Created a paper prototype video for the MoClo planner. The youtube link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPr-D4vAGAM
Wednesday, 6/27: We got some feedback from Traci today on the design for the MoClo planner. She would also like us to include in the primer designer component the reverse complement sequence created for the reverse primer. Also, I guess we also forgot some really important information for primer designer that we included in the Optimus Primer design last year- stuff like checking for different kinds of dimers, secondary structures, melting temperatures, etc. We will have to add that for later.

Also, I started looking more into Eugene today.

Thursday, 6/28: Continued looking more into Eugene and getting familiarized with the terminology.
Friday, 6/29: We met the MIT 2012 iGEM team today, and had social hour with the BU team as well. We went to an interesting physics lecture talk by Professor Walter Lewin, which was taped by NHK, the Japanese national broadcasting station. Members of the team visited the MIT iGEM wet-lab. We'll be back to visit team meetings in the future as well!!

 INSERT A PICTURE OR TWO FROM THE WETLAB VISIT HERE.  Further reflections to follow as well.

Monday, 7/2: Continued looking into Eugene, and reviewing the Optimus Primer code from last year. I'm anticipating getting into the nitty-gritty details of the coding soon!
Tuesday, 7/3: Started working today on the rules and definitions needed to create a Level 1 module. This should be really interesting since I'm not familiar with C# nor Java nor Eugene yet. But I'm learning!
Wednesday, 7/4: Happy 4th of July! Kim, Kara, and I saw "The Amazing Spider-Man". There was a very cool tree visualization in one of the scenes that could totally be applied to our troubleshooting tree. It's interested how a lot of the things mentioned are already feasible in the field of HCI. Even better? "Cross-species genetics"... synthetic biology?
Thursday, 7/5: Finished the Level1 module rules for Eugene. Fiddling around with the C# code for displaying the permutations by referencing the primer designer code we were working with last year, but having some difficulties.
Friday, 7/6:

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