Revision as of 17:01, 17 October 2018

Human Practices

Silver

Overview

For this part, we thoroughly considered the application of our project in the actual situation, and discussed these issues with our teachers and experts with different professional expertise in biological companies. Here are our conclusions.

Human Practices - Silver

Outreach

One of the best ways to increase scientific awareness is communication by which people who do not have theoretical knowledge will well understand complex research.

Effective communication is especially important in the field of synthetic biology. Because the idea of altering DNA sounds scary to a lot of people. To explain our case clearly, our team designed a game to let people understand and accept our projects when playing the game.

In the game, we simulate the processes of receiving information, interpreting the information, stealing the information and deciphering the information. The players can realize the strong confidentiality of our system and the necessity of its existence.

Additionally, in the game we also designed a section to emphasize the biological origin of our system, in which we used simple animations to explain details of the biological principles of our case to help people understand our project.

Player self-report

Player Feng Yang
As a student who is not major in biology, synthetic biology is so far for me, but this mini-game opens the door to a new world for me. I never thought that biological knowledge could be applied in information storage and encryptions, this mini-game really helped me learn a lot.

Player Jian Wang
I found that if I were a burglar who wanted to get true information without correct primers, I had to go through a lot of trials, which shows that this encryption system has stronger confidentiality than the existing encryption methods.

Player Si Zhang
This game is very interesting, and the biological knowledge involved is also refreshing, but I think that if we finally get the sentence that there is blank instead of a string of letters, it may be more convenient for the recipient.
Through the player's self-report, we know that our small game really allows players to learn the biological knowledge of our project, and experience the difficulties of cracking our system. At the same time, their suggestions also let us know the shortcomings of our case. We will use computer programming to improve our password book to achieve the effect of word segmentation.

Social

Our project is about the storage, encryption and transportation of information, so we decided to interview relevant experts and potential users for their advice to optimize our project.

National Institutions: Understand the laws and regulations that current information storage encryption systems need to comply with and the challenges that the current information storage encryption systems are facing?

Society: What are the people's views on current information encryption systems and our projects?

National Institutions
The National Secrecy Bureau of Heilongjiang Province in China

We got in touch with the National Secrecy Bureau of Heilongjiang Province in China to understand the bottlenecks and challenges encountered by today's information storage encryption systems to optimize our project.