BioBytes Online Hands-on · Option-based 90 Minutes for Six Different Domains
A six-person online workshop on Zoom. With every participant coming from a different domain, the main demo was pre-built as three options and chosen live by show of hands.
Overview
- Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 19:30 – 21:00 (90 minutes)
- Format: Online (Zoom)
- Attendees: 6 (rehab medicine, general practice, research residents and clinicians)
- Structure: Main demo with three selectable options + domain-specific hands-on
Why option-based
Online's biggest enemy is attention drift. When 90 minutes have to serve six different domains, a uniform agenda gives each person almost no useful time. So the main demo was built from the start as three options — (1) imaging and signal analysis (vfss, EMG), (2) the manuscript-submission workflow in the AI era, (3) literature search plus data-structure understanding.
The participants chose the live-demo option by show of hands at the start. The chosen option becomes the live demo; the hands-on lets each participant follow their own domain option. This structure worked best when time is short but domain variance is high.
What participants built
- All six completed Claude + medsci-skills setup and produced one concrete result in their chosen option.
- Option 2 (submission workflow) drew the strongest interest — using
find-journalfor journal recommendations,fill-icmje-coifor forms, and AI Disclosure drafting, all in one pass. - One participant left with a topic-selection plus statistical-validation flow for their own traumatic brain injury cohort.
The most striking pattern: even the option a participant didn't pick produced immediate transfer ideas. Watching option 1 (imaging) prompted "this could work on our rehab data too," and watching option 3 (literature search) produced "I'll use this pattern for patient education materials."
What I learned
Online needs options and short cycles. Rather than a single 90-minute thread, breaking into 15-minute units where each participant pulls their own option produces much higher focus. Lightweight interactions like show-of-hands and quick polls keep the live energy alive.
Setup is the biggest barrier online. Even within the same option, the pace splits based on OS and pre-install state. One participant joined Zoom 30 minutes early for individual install support, which let the full 90 minutes be spent on real work. This early-entry + individual support pattern was kept for later workshops.
What comes next
The biggest upside of online is no geographic constraint. The next experiment is a recorded-demo + live Q&A hybrid — sharing the demo flow as a recording so that the live time goes 100% into participants' own data. This session confirmed that branching is the heart of online format, which is a good base to build the next experiment on.
Voices from the room
“Watching two domains other than mine in the same session made it easier to map what I should do in my own field.”
“The most surprising part was reaching the first line of my own data within ninety minutes.”