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Second Life Medical Diagnosis Center

To make general public aware of socially relevant diseases and help them judge the potentially dangerous disease at early stages , our team has implemented a Medical Diagnosis System in SecondLife.

News headlines: Inspired from various news articles.

News Article 1, News Article 2

Creator
Francesco Lazzarino (Franco Fazuku)

Andrew Smiley (Pubert Rudolf)

Varun Gupta (Varun Greybeard)

Brief Summary:

The model in Second Life is essentially a Medical Diagnosis Center for few diseases. These diseases are socially relevant and thus an attempt has been made to make them aware in quiet early stages of what the diseases can be. The medium used is interactive and immersive to make learning interesting.

The underlying model for the representation in SecondLife is A control Flow State machine which helps presenting sequence of states and paths resulting from different inputs..

News Sources:

Resources are utilized for proper mapping of diseases and symptoms.

BBC Health Articles:

BBC Health notes , BBC Pancreatic Cancer Report, BBC Breast cancer report , BBC Prostate Cancer Report, BBC Healt notes 2, BBC Meningitis Report

Documentary:

Interactions:

The user comes to the triage and collects a wristband . He now becomes part of the model. The wristband assigned to him has a list of symptoms. The resulting diseases is unknown to him. Based on the list of the symptoms he is provided instructions as in a real world hospital.User is referred to a doctor where in the doctor asks user to get some tests done.Based on the test results the doctor confirms what is the actual disease.

Motivation:

Most of the people are not aware of diseases symptoms until last stage. The symptoms are very common for a specific disease. Thus we have tried to make user aware of the social relevant and frequently prevailing diseases. The medium of learning is fun part using immersive 3D environment.

Detailed description:

Based on the categories there are following Possible Scenarios

The model can be seen as 4 different parts.

Triage

The place where user enters and starts from. It assigns random symptoms to a patent and based on the symptoms gives him initial direction and route to a department.

• impaired vision ^ vomiting / nausea → Neurology

• fever → Internal Medicine

• swollen lymph nodes ^ jaundice → Cancer

Departments

Neurology

Internal Disease

Cancer

Labortaries

Now based on the symptom the department needs to perform some tests to confirm which possible diseases it is.

Neurology transition map

• headache ^ positive MRI → aneurism

• muscle pain ^ rash ^ positive MRI → meningitis

Internal disease transition map

• cramps ^ diarrhea ^ positive stool test → salmonellosis

• sore throat ^fatigue ^body aches ^ positive blood test → flu

• stomach pain ^ vomiting / nausea ^urination problems ^ positive urine test →melamine poisoning

• otherwise → common cold

Cancer transition map

• swollen lymph nodes ^ lumps in breast ^ swollen lymph nodes ^ positive

mammogram → breast cancer

• swollen lymph nodes ^ urination problem ^ blood in semen ^ positive biopsy →prostate cancer

• jaundice ^ abdominal pain ^ weight loss ^ vomiting / nausea → pancreatic cancer

Treatment Rooms

Therapy

Surgery

Pharmacy

Based on the repost results either the user is not having any disease or having some.

A diseased user is suggested treatment based on the disease he has got.

Treatments

breast cancer → surgery

prostate cancer → Chemeothrapy

pancreatic cancer → surgery

meningitis → medication

aneurism → surgery

salmonellosis Or flu → help immune system fight disease, ease symptoms.

melamine poisoning → medication (treatment of kidney stones)

The project succeeds its goal if it helps a single person to get rid of disease knowing about the symptoms quite earlier.