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    Changing the Face of Medicine

    Changing the Face of Medicine Resource Center

    Project Group

    Changing the Face of Medicine

    Client

    National Library of Medicine (NIH)

    Date

    October 2003

    Location

    National Library of Medicine, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD

    Exhibition Design

    Riggs + Ward

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    Tags

    Exhibition, Infographics, Animation, Installations, Touch

    A resource center at the end of an exhibition provides access to four interactive activities and a searchable database of women physicians for student visitors.

    In this special gallery within the Changing the Face of Medicine exhibition, visitors can sit down and engage in game-like activities that illuminate the work of physicians featured in the show. Visitors learn of the workings of the circulatory system and play a game by guiding a red blood cell on its journey through the body. In another activity they find out about some of the tools that doctors use to examine their patients, while another reveals the hereditary conditions for passing sickle cell anemia to the next generation. The fourth activity explores a specific kind of mistake in cell reproduction called translocation, and tests visitors’ ability to spot chromosomes with this type of error.

    Press & Awards

    Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, Jenifer Tidwell, 2006 (O’Reilly)
    American Association of Museums Muse Awards, Silver, Science, 2004

    The sphygmograph interactive uses simple computer animations to explain the operation of a very complicated medical device. The device itself is within a case. In fact, the object on display would be very difficult for visitors to understand without the use of technology. This entry is a very helpful interpretive tool for explaining an obscure but important artifact. It is a perfect example of how new media can help visitors learn in an exhibition, rather than just add noise and diversion.

    “Realtime,” Wired, March 2004
    Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, Digital Dozen, January 2004
    Blue Web’n, November 21, 2003

    Credits

    Producer
    Jeremy Clark
    Designers
    Gabe Kean
    Developers
    David Brewer, Sam Ward
    Writers
    Lisa Berndt, Mary Ellen Marmaduke
    Production Assistant
    David Waingarten
    Exhibit Design
    Riggs Ward
    © 2013 Second Story, Inc.

    Project Group

    • Project Overview
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Artifact Interactives
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Audiovisual Interactives
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Digital Portrait Gallery
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Overture Video
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Resource Center
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Web Site