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    Changing the Face of Medicine

    Changing the Face of Medicine Digital Portrait Gallery

    Project Group

    Changing the Face of Medicine

    Client

    National Library of Medicine (NIH)

    Date

    October 2003

    Location

    National Library of Medicine, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD

    Exhibition Design

    Riggs + Ward

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    Tags

    Exhibition, Walls, Collections, Content management tools, Infographics, Data visualization, Touch, Installations

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    • Group interactives
    • Collection databases

    Three interfaces drive a large presentation where visitors can rediscover, contextualize, and learn more about the hundreds of physicians featured in the exhibition.

    The Digital Portrait Gallery is a celebratory, culminating experience where the pantheon of women physicians that “changed the face of medicine” come together in one spectacular, group interactive installation. Here, three single-user kiosks control a large, 22-foot projected wall of faces as visitors discover physicians based on their location, their inspiration, their specialty, or their achievements. As visitors interact with the different kiosks, the faces on the wall react to show which physicians correspond to the various inquiries. A baseball-card-like record for each physician gives more biographical information about every woman in the exhibition, providing a kind of appendix to the exhibit experience.

    Press & Awards

    Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, Jenifer Tidwell, 2006 (O’Reilly)
    American Association of Museums Muse Awards, Silver, Science, 2004

    The sphygmograph interactive uses simple computer animations to explain the operation of a very complicated medical device. The device itself is within a case. In fact, the object on display would be very difficult for visitors to understand without the use of technology. This entry is a very helpful interpretive tool for explaining an obscure but important artifact. It is a perfect example of how new media can help visitors learn in an exhibition, rather than just add noise and diversion.

    “Realtime,” Wired, March 2004
    Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, Digital Dozen, January 2004
    Blue Web’n, November 21, 2003

    Credits

    Producer
    Jeremy Clark
    Designers
    Gabe Kean, JD Hooge
    Developers
    Thomas Wester, Seb Chevrel
    Writers
    Lisa Berndt, Mary Ellen Marmaduke
    Production Assistant
    David Waingarten
    Exhibit Design
    Riggs Ward
    © 2013 Second Story, Inc.

    Project Group

    • Project Overview
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Artifact Interactives
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Audiovisual Interactives
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Digital Portrait Gallery
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Overture Video
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Resource Center
    • Changing the Face of Medicine Web Site