19 January 2017 (Thursday)
A group of us from the Multimedia Department went on this half day workshop at the UiTM Sungai Buloh Campus (Medical and Dentistry). We were looking forward to meet up with our collaborators, Prof. Dr. Zamrin Dimon and his team of surgeons, and also our partners from the Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Design and Architecture UPM to see where three fields (medical, design and computer science) and merge together to benefit others.
Associate Professor Dr. Rahmita Wirza is already a familiar name in this type of research and this was some other new project she is keen on working on. I am grateful that she had been generous in extending the invitation to me regarding this workshop as she thought I might wanted to join in on the mock prototyping session because of my HCI background. Indeed, I had a great time that afternoon, and I learned something new too.
My appreciation for doctors and surgeons, in particular has gone up several notches too, by understanding the problems they face daily with some of the current medical devices they are using (which we are invited to solve - thus, the purpose of this workshop). Nevertheless, their invitation to see how the devices work first hand, in an operating theatre, on a living patient, had to be turned down by me. Youtube is enough for me to look at heart bypass surgeries, thank you very much.
