Catherine Letondal
Wendy E. Mackay
ABSTRACT
Over the past seven years, we have been conducting a variety of participatory design activities with research biologists, programmers, and bioinformaticians at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. We first describe the history of these activities and how they have created the beginnings of a participatory design culture. We introduce participatory programming, which integrates participatory design and end-user programming, and examine how it acts as a medium for forging scientific ideas. Finally, we reflect on three poles of activity: the computational medium, scientific hypotheses and participatory design.
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Jeanine M. Meyer
This paper, on participatory programming and the scope of mutual responsibility, describes substantial activities, lasting over seven years, involving the production and support of software tools for biologists at a premier research institution, the Institut Pasteur. The authors analyze and reflect on their experiences working with biologists, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists, from initial surveys to general courses and workshops, many documented using video, and aimed at specific prototyping tasks. One intriguing early observation is that the biologists did not appreciate flexible tools, even if the existence of such tools would potentially help them in the future. Letondal and Mackay present a framework for describing the collaborations among the three groups, and the responsibilities that individuals in the groups typically assumed. The framework incorporates three poles: computational medium, scientific hypotheses, and participatory design. Unlike more theoretical papers, coming strictly from computer scientists, this paper describes specific courses and actual activities leading to real tools, such as biok, a tool enabling biologists to manipulate and visualize deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strings and proteins, and a facility for combining paper and online lab notebooks. The paper is well worth reading, both for the insights into the milieu of a research lab, and the discussion of participatory design and participatory programming. Other related work by the authors is indicated in the bibliography. Online Computing Reviews Service
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