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

Animation Clip

Animation Clip

Interactive ApplicationAnimation

Interactive Questions

Web-player

Survey

Appearance

INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONRUN THROUGH

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

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