Patients attending Nuclear Cardiology departments for myocardial perfusion imaging often arrive with negative expectations and misconceptions about their appointment experience.  Patients undergoing cardiac imaging are often struggling with chronic illness and existential uncertainty.  Although leaflets deliver the appropriate clinical information about their appointments, they don’t serve the prescient need for reassurance.

This mobile Application was developed in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. With this development, I utilised the psychoeducational effect of narrative to deliver information to patients attending MPI appointments.

During 3 months of clinical observation I witnessed the compassionate, service of the Advanced Technologist team. Through life drawings and gesture based sketches, I captured realistic depictions of the patient experience for the purposes of patient centred education.

Throughout this project I found creative ways of reusing the same base format for the design of each room to reproduce different user experiences utilizing 2d and 3d animations and graphics. I particularly enjoyed this blood spawner function, creating a script that continuously instantiates red-blood cells to produce a deluge effect. This recreated the imagery of internal bleeding in a visually lighthearted manner.   Although this wasn’t a necessary feature for the objectives of this project as an educational application, personally think the BloodSpawner is an engaging and entertaining aspect of the application.

I similarly enhanced the visuals by using interesting graphics and Pomegranate textures for the backgrounds in the playable environments, to create the illusion of human organs in the background. I made use of multiple camera angles and 3d objects to create visually and spatially distinct environments for the educational experience.

For one of the scenes where the player is to rotate a 3D heart model I placed the camera inside of the ribcage and placed a low opacity red panel over the camera to act as a filter. The intended effect was to create a red tint to create the user experience of being inside the human body.

I put a lot of heart into this project.

An Educational Game for the General Public

Aortic Aneurysm Alert is a collaborative Unity application, with my amazing and talented course mates Laura Hudson and Precious Karley, designed to make learning about aortic aneurysms more visual and engaging. It allows users to explore a series of themed rooms with 3D anatomical models, animations, videos, interactive activities and a final quiz. My main contributions included modelling and developing the main corridor, creating a physics-based player controller for the player to move around the room, and an interactive ray casting feature where the user can click on the buttons in the corridor and enter each door which is a new scene, and building a terminology scene where users can rotate, inspect and highlight anatomical structures of the heart, as well as learn some information about their heart. The final experience combines anatomy, storytelling and gameplay to communicate medical information in an interesting way to the general public.