Design of Mobile Natural Interfaces for Visualization and Management of Large Patient Databases

This project, in partnership with The Boeing Company, four Canadian universities (UBC, SFU,
OCADU and Dalhousie), a team of universities in Brazil led by the Federal University of Sao Carlos
(UFSCar), and a special chronic care hospital in Brazil for individuals with neurological and brain
disorders, intends to focus on health care professionals and administrators responsible for
transitioning patients to live in society again. As changes in the therapeutic procedures for patients
mean changes in the working procedures for health professionals, this project looks mainly to
investigate how natural user interfaces (NUIs) can be designed to enhance natural interaction among
health professionals to lead to a more connected, tuned and active community, with specific attention
to designing for managing and visualizing large quantities of patient and administrative data within the
nomadic context of their work. This project will bring significant benefits to Boeing in the areas of
visualization of large datasets, visual analytics and natural gesture interfaces applied to collaboration
and…TOBECONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Sara Diamond;Kirstie Hawkey;Rodger Lea;Derek Reilly;Sidney Fels

Student:

Partner:

Boeing Vancouver (Richmond, BC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: