Introduction to Interface Design: The Electronic Lab Notebook: Formal Design for Templates

ORIGINAL FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION
Reduce the time and effort required to create graphical representations of standard equipment

Increase the accuracy of recording information through graphical representation

Reduce the effort required to read ambiguous letters, unaligned numbers, and miscellaneous handwriting artifacts

  • provide blank templates ready to be pasted onto any electronic page for different configurations of wells, plates, slots, and other equipment
  • allow editing of shapes and plug-in shape libaries to match specific laboratory equipment
  • allow creation and editing of storable diagrams built with individual shapes

analysis sketch of lab equipment

interface prototype of noteboook template selector

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