MID Projects
Listed below are a few projects the MID group is currently involved in.
Efficient Environmental Inspections
The aim of the project is to examine the means and possibilitiesfor authorities to work efficiently with environmental inspections. The project examines how environmental inspectors work today, how the communication with business representatives is structured (and how it can be resurrected), organizational aspects as well as the computer tools that will support future inspections. People of the MID-group work mainly with analyzing current practices and the design of a future computer system.
Keywords: Environment, inspection, case based reasoning, field studies, workshops, design
FunkIS
Medical care today is more complex, often bringing medical personnel in different disciplines together. Multi-disciplinary care teams focusing on complicated cases may help decrease misjudgments within medical care. The aim of FunkIS is to combine and develop advanced techniques for aiding decisions within such teams providing tools making sure the right information is available at the right time.
Keywords: Haptic, health care, information management, information visualization, multi-modal interfaces
E-learning; Students’ approaches to studying and learning
A project investigating students’ approaches to studying and learning in web- and campus based courses. Data is collected from the student population with the help of a Swedish version of the student inventory questionnaire ASSIST (short version) and interviews. The project is a collaboration between MID at KTH, the Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science (Nada), the Department of Education and the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, all at Stockholm University.
Keywords: ASSIST, students´ attitudes, learning
SimVisInt
SimVisInt is collaborative project bringing together competences in simulation technology, visualization and interaction. SimVisInt consists of a number of smaller projects amongst which the HEART project and the interactive HEART demonstration can be found. The goal of the HEART project is to build a visualization of a human heart based on medical imaging data, combining it with an interactive interface with visual, haptic and sound feedback – allowing for a better understanding of the heart function and aiding diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. The interactive HEART demonstration is a public showcase displaying a simulation of the blood flow through a heart. Visitors can interact with the simulation through software recognizing gestures and hand movements, allowing them to by simple gestures move and manipulate the visualization.
Keywords: Medical imaging data, heart, visualization, haptic
Oral Surgery Simulator
Todays undergraduate curriculum for clinical teaching in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Institute of Odontology, Karolinska Institutet does not provide the students with much practical training. In this inter-disciplinary project between Karolinska Institutet, the Royal Institute of Technology and Forsslund Systems AB a oral surgery simulator is being constructed - providing students with means for hands-on training of wisdom tooth surgery.
Keywords: Haptics, surgery simulation, user-centrered design, product design
Mänskliga rättigheter som drivkraft för Internet 3.0
Huvudprojektledare Marianne Salén, Region Västra Götaland,
Enheten för rättighetsfrågor
The project is sprung from the work done around the TD (accessibility database) about Västra Götaland. The aim is to develop methodology to use Human Rights (HR) standards and interpretive framework to enable the innovative development of products, services and environments. This will serve as a strategic interaction between actors in a chain from consumer, client to businesses, organizations and society.
The project will serve as a test bed and development platform for HR innovations.
Data driven sustainability
The CESC project explores innovative information technologies for creating, sharing and visualizing sustainability information. This is exemplified by prototypes developed within the project, e.g. Greenalytics, Footprinted.org and Carbon.to. In October 2011, CESC and EIT ICT Labs arranged Stockholm Green Hackathon at KTH. The event was organized by Hannes Ebner and Jorge Zapico, both PhD students at MID.
Shareweather
Sedan hösten 2008 till och med 2011 har ett forskningsprojekt vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan KTH, MID (tidigare: avdelningen för Medieteknik), arbetat med att ta fram framtidens vädertjänster. Projektet leds av Katarina Elevant. Projektet har bland annat testat en ny typ av vädervarningar och ”riktat” trafikväder via SMS med målgruppen trafikanter.
Interaction Design and Energy
The project explores perspectives, scenarios, representations and design related to energy through interaction design and visualization. Typical application areas are electric vehicles, smart grid and demand/respons systems. As an example the project have developed a useful tool for exploring aspects of electric driving that is currently in further development based on earlier findings. The project is carried out in collaboration with SICS ICE Lab and Ericssonand are funded by StandUp for energy and EIT ICT Labs Smart Energy Systems.
KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space and Presence Laboratory
The KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space is a project at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, with support from Akademiska Hus and EIT ICT Labs.
