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Mary Chant
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Design/Education
A unique surgical gown, which goes on international display in the USA today, should significantly improve understanding of where operation incisions are made, and what they mean to the patient
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Key Phrase: operation gown named Incisions
  • Date: January 30, 2007
  • Source: Durham University

Design/Imaging
The study suggests that the imaging method known as Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) ultrasound might offer a new tool for screening patients at increased risk for liver cancers.
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Key Phrase: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse
  • Date: January 7, 2008
  • Source: Duke University

Design/Imaging
UNC Asheville is excited to be working with the Forest Service on a project that provides an innovative and dynamic way for people to access information on forest threats. The forest threats summary viewer provides images, threat distribution maps, additional forestry contact information, and brief descriptions about forest threats throughout the eastern U.S.
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Key Phrase: Forest Threats Summary Viewer
  • Date: December 17, 2007
  • Source: Eastern Forest Threat Assessment Center

Design/Imaging
A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is expected to revolutionize research of the continent's frozen landscape.
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Key Phrase: The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, high resolution images
  • Date: November 27, 2007
  • Source: NASA

Design/Search
Think about the semantics used in searching as a sort of lens through which you see matching resources.
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Key Phrase: semantic search
  • Date: January 15, 2008
  • SemanticWeb.com

Design/Search
MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students
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Key Phrase: The Lecture Server from MIT
  • Date: November 7, 2007
  • Source: MIT

Design/Usability
"What new methods can be envisioned to help designers navigate value tensions among system features in a principled way?"
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Key Phrase: Value Sensitive Design, value dams and flows
  • Date: 2007
  • Source: VSD, Value Sensitive Design

Design/Usability/Blogs
"In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities."
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Key Phrase: research on blog readers
  • Date: April 9, 2008
  • Source: University of California Irvine

Design/Visualization
Information graphics reveal the hidden, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure.
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Key Phrase: infographics
  • Date: November 27, 2007
  • Source: uiGarden.net





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