Student project: Visualization of Health Records Using Google Earth (TDDC79, Fall 2007)
Student project:
Visualization of Health Records Using Google Earth (TDDC79, Fall 2007)
The
short introductory
course "Perspectives on Information Technology"
TDDC79 is
given in the beginning of the first year of the "Master of Science
in Information Technology" at Linköping
University (in Sweden).
Approximately one week of studies was available for implementation in
this project work the rest was needed for learning how to search
scientific literature, write technical reports etc. The task was to
use spreadsheets for "programming" a conversion from a (fake) list of
medical diagnosis and timestamps to at least two different
types of
visualisations using KML
in Google Earth.
The
intention of this project is purely an experiment for educational
purpose, and we do not believe that these spreadsheet-based examples
are suitable for real "production environments". Some of the principles
behind this have been discussed in a
scientific paper regarding a Google Earth-based prototyping
environment for electronic health records.
Tasks and results:
All
items below are in Swedish, but formulas in the report and the
spreadsheet of course do not require knowledge of Swedish, and the KMZ
file should be enjoyable even if you don't understand the texts.
I
think the students made and documented a very nice piece of work,
especially considering that this is one of their first courses. The
students were: Thor Bossuyt, Erik Eloff, Christoffer Johansson, Martin Kristing, Niklas Locking.
Please tell me if you find any interesting use for this information and
I'll forward that to the students.
Best regards,
Erik Sundvall (PhD student and supervisor of the project)
http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/
Tel: +46-13-227579