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INTERACTIVE ASTHMA APPLICATIONKIRSTY JORDAN - MSC RESEARCH PROJECT
DR VAL FALLON, PROF EUNICA MA - SUPERVISORS
Application contents
Interactive teaching tool to raise awareness of asthma management to parents of asthmatic children
Medical animation about asthma
Interactive Drag and Drop questions
Interactive scene for user to identify possible asthma triggers
Brief Background Context“To improve asthma care and compliance among children, it is necessary to provide adequate education to parents”
Current information on asthma is complex and usually in a written format
Majority of hospital admissions for asthma are children under 5
Interactive medical visualisations have been proven to improve the quality of care provided to patients
Data SegmentationVisible Human Project - Cadaveric Female data set
Amira Software
Lung segmentation to generate surface 3D model of lungs
Model Manipulation
High polygon count is computationally expensive
New surface required in order to manipulate lung model
Conform Geometry
Reduces polygon count
Asthma Animation
Contains data extracted lung model
Zygote model provides skin and trachea
Outlines changes at gross and cellular level during an asthma attack
Demonstrates how medication can reduce symptoms of an asthma attack
FeedbackLikes
“The application was easy to use with
clear instructions”
“Informative”
“Engaging with the interactive
questions was useful for knowledge
retention”
Dislikes “Small Writing”
“The animation is quite long”
“Lack of detailed information”
Future Developments
Series of short animations, detailing different medications and irritants
Bite-sized animation clips
More questions and exploration scenarios
Slider bars to control the animation interactively
iBook Development