While our original problem statement focuses heavily on the operating room, our studio and idea generation sessions led us to further pursue two new environments: the cadaver lab in the Stanford Med School and a general nursing home. The needs in the operating room are great, but we forecasted that the restrictions in space, possible gestures and access to testing in a real environment would make it harder to arrive at an ideal solution in six weeks.
Instead, during our sessions with our mentor Brynn, we heavily explored the underlying needs of both the cadaver lab and nursing home users and came up with many unique approaches to solving their needs with gestures. Thus, we decided to deep dive into both environments for our prototyping and will ultimately pick one focus next week. The two areas and summaries of our resulting prototypes are below:
The big theme of these prototypes is exploring nostalgia and connection. Most technology is too complicated to understand for nursing home residents, and is otherwise very passive in that it waits for the user to interact. For these prototypes, we explored an active wall that recognizes the user and enables them to make seamless connections with their families through emails, text and video chat. It also would have an interactive way of recording and preserving memories through a story builder that integrates photos, videos and voice recording. A similar wall interface in family’s kitchens or living rooms could keep the nursing home residents apprised of what their loved ones are up to, and also suggest connecting when both are available to catch up.
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Roughly thirty students and one two instructors descend upon roughly eight cadavers in the lab to practice and review their knowledge of the human body. The students follow sometimes complicated instructions to mimic real procedures. Each individual cadaver is expensive, and mistakes are costly and permanent. Thus, having an ability to utilize the many cameras already present in the room to easily record, review and follow along would make a huge impact both in the lab and for later learning. Also, our system should enable the instructor to utilize these camera's to keep track of the many student groups and focus his or her attention to the most pressing issue.
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