Trap it!: A playful human-biology interaction for a museum installation

Seung Ah Lee; Engin Bumbacher; Alice M. Chung; Nate Cira; Byron Walker; Ji Young Park; Barry Starr; Paulo Blikstein; Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702220

Trap it! A playful human-biology interaction for a museum installation

Seung Ah Lee, Engin Bumbacher, Alice M. Chung, Nate Cira, Byron Walker, Ji Young Park, Barry Starr, Paulo Blikstein, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

62 Scopus citations

Abstract

We developed Trap it!, a human-biology interaction (HBI) medium encompassing a touchscreen interface, microscopy, and light projection. Users can interact with living cells by drawing on a touchscreen displaying the microscope view of the cells. These drawings are projected onto the microscopy field as light patterns, prompting observable movement in phototactic responses. The system design enables stable and robust HBI and a wide variety of programmed activities (art, games, and experiments). We investigated its affordances as an exhibit in a science museum in both facilitated and unfacilitated contexts. Overall, it had a low barrier of entry and fostered rich communication among visitors. Visitors were particularly excited upon realizing that the interaction involved real organisms, an understanding that was facilitated by the eyepiece on the physical system. With the results from user study, we provide our observations, insights and guidelines for designing HBI as a permanent museum exhibit.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2593-2602
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702220
State	Published - Apr 18 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2015-April

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	4/18/15 → 4/23/15

Keywords

Biotic game
Biotic processing unit
Human-biology interaction
Interactive biology
Interactive microscope
Tangible interactive microbiology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Access to Document

10.1145/2702123.2702220

Cite this

Lee, S. A., Bumbacher, E., Chung, A. M., Cira, N., Walker, B., Park, J. Y., Starr, B., Blikstein, P., & Riedel-Kruse, I. H. (2015). Trap it! A playful human-biology interaction for a museum installation. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 2593-2602). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702220

Trap it! A playful human-biology interaction for a museum installation. / Lee, Seung Ah; Bumbacher, Engin; Chung, Alice M. et al.
CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 2593-2602 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Lee, SA, Bumbacher, E, Chung, AM, Cira, N, Walker, B, Park, JY, Starr, B, Blikstein, P & Riedel-Kruse, IH 2015, Trap it! A playful human-biology interaction for a museum installation. in CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2015-April, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2593-2602, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 4/18/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702220

Lee SA, Bumbacher E, Chung AM, Cira N, Walker B, Park JY et al. Trap it! A playful human-biology interaction for a museum installation. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 2593-2602. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702220

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