PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

As part of the Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education’s spring program, our project involves the development of interactive content for a kiosk that allows guests to explore of tissue engineering. This will become part of a newly planned exhibit by the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Inc. (PTEI). The installation will include party-style games and a translation of the website “Dr. Allevable’s Unbelievable Laboratory” (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jiricou/PTEI/labtest.html ).

Our focus is to create an interaction that involves active participation from the guest using the kiosk unlike most kiosks that function solely as access points to static information. We aim to address young visitors and adults. Adults may be able to facilitate the interest of the younger visitors and keep them engaged. Although user interaction is primarily touch-screen based we might consider using buttons as well.

CLIENTS:

Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education, Duquesne University funded NIH Project R25 RR020403

CLIENT REPRESENTATIVES:

TEAM MEMBERS :

Sujatha Krishnamoorty : sujathak@andrew.cmu.edu

Daren Makuck : dmakuck@andrew.cmu.edu

Phaneendra Gullapalli : pgullapa@andrew.cmu.edu

Devdatta Nerurkar : dnerurka@andrew.cmu,edu

Our office is located at:

Room 5216 “Dr. Allevable’s lab”

700 Technology Drive

Pittsburgh, PA 15213