Happy or not, we are in the software era: how many different softwares we must learn and understand in order to use the equipment we need?
Have you ever lost time understanding how to interact with the software and, after hours, you are still not able to access all the functions?
The UI/UX design is a key to unlock the potentiality, not only of the software, but also of the hardware, since everything is controlled there.
A biotechnologist nowadays must learn how to interact with a lot of softwares: from basic research (for stats analysis, bioinformatic tools, modeling, parameters optimization) to real production scale (SCADA, analysis tools, ERP, LIMS eccetera)..
I think that in this software-based world having the possibility to exploit all the functions of a tool, like a bioreactor, is prone to the ability to interact with the software.
In this scenario can an AI assistant help the user to follow the right path and find the function he needs?
AI is now, more or less, on every device but when it becomes really useful?
Maybe it can reduce the time for a biologist, who is not a software developer, to interact more fluently with the exponentially growing functions of a complex system like bioreactor?