Biography
With a Master's degree in Neuroscience, Carlos Henrique Xerfan do Amaral is quite the technology enthusiast. During his earlier years of higher education, he began to develop his interests and skills towards educational technology and teaching, producing a few educational CD-ROM´s. In 2008, Amaral started working part time at UNISUAM, in the innovation department called INNOVAR. There, he focused on the development of a virtual clinic, among other projects. Amaral was continuing his studies in a PhD program, when he made the decision to work full time at UNISUAM. Today, Amaral instructs and works as a Graduate Programs Coordinator and Distance Learning Coordinator.

 

Founder and CIO at Pixel Mídias Interativas, Daniel Araújo is an entrepreneur and consultant in technology and new business development. Araújo is currently working towards his MBA in Business Management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas. The partnership that Araújo shares with UNISUAM began in 2005, when he helped to create the Instituto InNovar. Araújo was responsible for developing the EVAM project and involved in various other projects in educational technology.

 

Flavio Anunciação is a 3D modeler and animator, and has worked on educational digital designs for the greater part of his career. Anunciação worked on the project “Clinica Virtual Amarina Motta,” collaborating as one of the main 3D modelers, and also was responsible for textures. At this time, Anunciação is working as a Distance Learning Technical Supervisor for UNISUAM.

 

Animator and 3D modeler, Italo Garrot has worked in the digital designing and educational industry for the majority of his career. Garrot worked on the project “Clinica Virtual Amarina Motta,” as one of the main 3D modelers and animator on the team.

 

Rodolfo Gaudioso received his Bachelor's degree from Centro Educacional Augusto Motta, then worked as a 3D modeler during the first years of his career. Gaudioso collaborated on the project, "Clinica Virtual Amarina Motta," where he was responsible for the design sections about ligaments and bones modeling. Gaudioso focused on emerging technologies, and sought a heightened understanding for programming. He used 3D modeling concepts, making his start in the digital games business. Currently, Gaudioso works as a programmer and leads a development team that focusses on games for social networks.

 

Yargo Rocha began his carrier as a trainee at Instituto Innovar, where he was soon given added responsibilities, during the development of project EVAM. Following, Rocha worked with the Flash Platform in the development of games and web sites for digital media agencies. At present, Rocha works as a programmer for distance learning projects at Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

 

Description
Clinica Escola Virtual is a project designed for off-line classes on health-care and biology related courses. Built over the course of two years, more than 500 students have already experienced the use of the Virtual Clinic in their courses. Designed when no tablets were available on the market, and with hopes of producing a product with the best usability, it was designed completely with “one-click based” navigation concept in mind. Its optimal use is alongside interactive boards.

 

Communication Objective
The main goal of the Clinica Escola Virtual project was to build a software designed to provide new horizons for in-class teaching dynamics. To do so, the academic community (both professors and students) of the participating institution were enrolled to contribute and interact, to ensure the creation of the most relevant tool. Following this lead, development cycles were followed, with constant updating and remodeling of the software. Also taken into consideration was the fact that visual stimulus and an animation based multidisciplinary platform that allow professors to interact with each other’s contents will provide the tools for change teaching paradigms. For example, intensive care unit classes, normally require very complex infrastructure with high investments. With Virtual Clinic, both professors and students simulate real life situations and therapeutics, resulting in the gamification of their classes and interaction with the knowledge in an entirely different way.

 

Tools used
Adobe software was used to create the interface design and navigation, and to gather all the information and 3d models into a single environment. At the time, the software mechanics was build using AS2 flash scripting for buttons and animations, CS3 Photoshop´s resources for visual treatment and image processing.

 

Adobe Tools
Creative Suite 4 Master Collection