Started off travelling to st marys hospital in Paddington to see some of the eduaction material in action and what is currently being developed and some of it was amazing.
We were given a short introduction on what happens in their department and the main doctor gave a short background on himself!
Once we got into the labs we saw something he was currently working on. He was working on a stroke assessment matrix and also a presentation for doctors and nurses. What surprised me so much was that he said he research for 4 months into strokes which was impressive. His matrix was made using XML language and was a matrix giving mimic strokes, serious strokes and then stating what kind of people could suffer from them e.g over 65's.
We then witnessed a presentation associated with strokes that they were working on. Telling doctors how to assess patients with stroke, how to test for it and how to look after them! All done using flash
Next project which we were shown was a simulation for surgeons. Junior surgeons first operation always involves hernias, so they developed a simulation using java 3d where they help them with a step by step simulation on how to operate on a patient with a hernia from start to finish. Very impressive
After that they showed us a few room where other simulations take place such as bone drilling.
After that we were off to the exhibition show in olympia to focus on e-learning technologies being used or developed by major companies. I spent the day looking at booths and was more keen to look at adobe who I had always thought were ahead of the game. They had a few good ideas! Especially a software which gave you the ability to create a tool which taught how to use other softwares via guide and quizzes. The great part was that the software could even be edited in flash.
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