Harvey Project Smartboard

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Here is the file. Please take a look and make any suggestions that you can thing of...

Harvey PP.ppt

The goal of the Smart Board will be to frame the visitor's experience, and provide information that the visitor will find helpful to better understand what we are trying to say with our physical exhibits.

- introductory text from each group which will provide contextualizing information about the project (specific to each group)
- somehow incorporate a picture of the final product (this may change to simply the title of the physical exhibit)
- more information to follow once the introductory text is compiled

"Harvey and Galen"
"Harvey's World" (A bio of sorts, but not done in the style of Keele)
"Harvey the Observer"
"The Heart and Mechanical Philosophy"
"The Work in Progress" (possibly "Team Work") - looks at the project while we constructed it
"Comments" - a place where people can leave notes using the Smart Board; something like an interactive Comments Box

Rough brainstorming of ideas to include on the Smart Board

- why Galen's theory survived so long (lack of experimentation and practicality) [Bayon]
- Harvey's Royalism (maybe while talking about social context) - "Heart as king of the body"
- "Reluctant Revolutionary"
- supported by Descartes

Question: Should we do a biography? Maybe incorporate like Keele does into something like, "The man, the physician, and the scientist" (touch on here influences like Fabricius)

-Need to include contextual information on the smartboard.
-Meg, Lois and Meili volunteer to work on this project—But they are not responsible for writing all the text.
-Other groups are going to tell the Smartboard group which information they want on the board.
-The writing is going to be divided up amongst everyone.
-Should include an acknowledgment section.

A smart board uses as computer, projector and the interactive white board (like a giant touch screen) and can work with any program loaded or available to the host computer. It uses ink-less pens(the trough they are held in is actually what recognizes when the pens are in use by their absence from it) , or you can use your finger to write, your finger can also act as a mouse for scrolling and clicking!

What can we do with it?

Youtube has some great examples of smart board in use, perhaps the mot interesting concept is that of a program (open source) called Eduism, which creates 3D environments. check out the youtube video about 3D anatomy! Also Eduism has provided a great video that shows how to program a Wiimote to be a way of navigating around the 3D world. So what can we do - well we could create the type of lab that William Harvey might have had we could show experiments, we could have interactive comment bards, you can make "jeopardy like" games. . . there are so many option, as I'm sure you can tell I find this very exciting! I think that if you take a few minutes and watch some of he you tube videos you will see there are some amazing possibilities!

Links: (all of the software is open source)
Eduism (3D environments) http://edusim3d.com/alpha/
Darwin (used to program Wiimote) http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote
CB Model Pro (used to create 3d models to import into Eduism - Google sketchup may do the same thing) http://www.cbmodelpro.com/
Eduism Anatomy videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vop7EqUpd4&feature=related
Getting started with Eduism Virtual World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt61J0NFDyU
Eduism+Smartboard+Wiimote 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3TriDV1kg
Eduism+Smartboard+Wiimote 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSbYY_3yPM

Ideas from the Meeting

• Operating theatre as background
  

• Including:
  

• Table
  

• Body on the table
  

• Maybe... contain interactive heart where ‘click’ and open up larger image of the circulatory system...
  

• Visitors gallery
  

• People (maybe, but don’t want it too cluttered)
  

• Interactive windows:
  

• Ideas for inside (generally extra info that supplements exhibit)
  

• Leave open for information from researchers (basically anything that doesn’t fit into exhibit
  

• What we need:
  

• Pictures of “Theatre” from time period
  

• Colour scheme
  

• Familiarize with software (Eduism and Cobalt)
  

• Also make sure these are okay to use

Interactive Room.skp

Keep in mind this is only a rough sketch of what we came up with (and some random colours). Any suggestions are more than welcome!

Until the early modern era, understandings of human physiology and pathology were credited to Galen of Pergamum. Perhaps the most influential Greek physician after Hippocrates, Galen refined medicine, however imperfectly, into a science. He was an avid experimenter and frequently dissected living and dead animals. Since human dissection was forbidden, Galen applied his insights into the bodily structure of animals to humans. Galen was not limited to experimental conclusions. He employed a teleological philosophy—the notion that all parts of the body were created for a clearly defined purpose. Much of Galenic physiology is therefore based on speculation and inference. Where quantifiable explanations were simply unavailable, Galen referred to the presence of “spirits” in order to fill the gap in his reasoning.

William Harvey differed from his classical predecessors through experimental and quantitative methodology. Interested predominantly in the process of blood circulation, Harvey avoided authoritative theories of the body. In short, Harvey isolated his phenomena. He dispensed with the work of “spirits” in favor of mathematical and morphological arguments.

Would it be accurate to refer to William Harvey as a “modern scientist”? Not quite. Although Harvey’s methods were removed from classical theory, he did not mark a clean break from antiquity. Eager to dispense of Galen’s suppositions, Harvey was quick to cite Galen when supporting his own conclusions. Moreover, his Aristotelian worldview suggests significant continuity with the past. Perhaps it would be wise to think of Harvey as a transitional figure in the history of medicine.