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When creating a new scientific device, the existence of political, economic and social frameworks leads into the necessity of an in-depth analysis of how your creation would affects the world and how the world affects it. Thus, we first decided to analyze Printeria main applications among society, which finally were clasificated as:

• Research groups. Printeria automatizes time-consuming protocols, so enhancing the intellectual task and increasing the experiments reproducibility

• Education. With a friendly-user software, Printeria is also designed to be an educational tool, as a fully equipped device is introduced inside classrooms without the necessity of high-cost technologies

• Bio Art. Printeria offers a compact and friendly toolkit to have a complete palette of pigmented bacteria for the bioartist disposal.

During the design phase our product, we had many questions about how to fulfill the different stakeholders demands . In order to get first-hand answers, our human practices team conducted several interviews with each target group, so we could realize which where the real user necessities in relation to topics such as software functionalities, external design, DNA parts toolkit and biosafety measurements. In these interviews, we talked with the Spanish microbiologist PhD. Francis Mojica, and with bioartists such as María Peñil. We also received feedback from an open-talk with high schools last year students. Moreover, microfluidic system experimental design was thoughtfully implemented with the advice of electronic engineering professionals from the microfluidic market niche. You can see our complete Integrated Human page by clicking here