Dr Paul Curzon

Implementation Projects

The following projects are linked to my CHI+MED research programme on safer medical devices, developing simulators and tools we need to help understand and so better design the interactive systems used in, teamworking situations such as nurses in a busy hospital ward.

Project 1: Teamwork Simulator The project aims at developing a visualisation engine for rendering the daily activities carried out in the workplace by virtual persons. The simulator is essentially a simplified variant of classical social life simulator games, such as the Sims. The basic version of the engine should enable moving actors in a 2D world according to input data read from text files.

Project 2: Task Flow GUI The project aims at developing a GUI for specifying task flow models, which describe how tasks are carried out in workplaces. Task flow models are graphically represented with graphs. Nodes in the graphs are activities, and edges between nodes are dependency relations between activities. The basic version of the GUI should enable create/modify/load/save operations on task flows, and visualisation of task execution traces on the task flow according to input data read from text files.