Tele-Actor field test, July 25, 2002

Michael Eisen's Laboratory (LBL)

 Lessons Learned:

Location

Michael Eisen’s Life Sciences Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://rana.lbl.gov/
 

Date 25 July 2002, 8:15-8:45am
Scenario summary

We first taught the Robot, Clone, Human curriculum to the participants over the course of three hours of instruction. Then, on the day of the Tele-Actor field test, the participants learned how microarray experiments work by working with the Tele-Actor to complete four tasks. These included: finding the microarray robot, identifying the robot’s controller, using the robot to spot DNA onto slides, and displaying and answering questions about the experiment’s results. Click here to see the scenario from this field test
 

Contact person
in the field
- Justin Fay
- Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
- 510.486.6791
- jcfay@lbl.gov 
 
Participant info

- Total number of users: 24
- All the users were ninth grade biology students from U.C. Berkeley’s Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program .
 

User breakdown

Type of user

Age group

Nbr

Location

Connecto speed

Ninth graders

13 - 15

24

Etcheverry Hall, UCB

T3

 

Participant contact

- George Gagnon, MESA Director
- 510.642.2041
- gwgagnon@coe.berkeley.edu

Lessons learned -faster refresh of images
- use of pre-stored images
- scenario more inquiry-based
- non-trivial questions
- narrative goal
 
Example images  Click here to see images of the participants from MESA.

 

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