Graduation Day 2009 Afternoon – Coventry University

April 162010


Footage from the Awards Day for International, PgD, Masters, MPhil and PhD students that took place on the 15th July 2009. This is the ceremony for Graduates from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, the School of Art and Design and the Faculty of Engineering and Computing.

Duration : 0:57:50

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Designing a Health Care Interface

April 82010


October 26, 2007 lecture by Paul Tang for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). Even more fragmented than American health care is the management of health care information. Faced with a barrage of poorly organized health information, physicians and other clinicians must sift through uninspired displays to glean pearls of information necessary to make clinical decisions. New tools for information gathering from patients and for information rendering to patients must be developed in order to activate patients to become fully informed and fully empowered members of their health care team.

CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar:
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/

Stanford HCI Group:
http://hci.stanford.edu/

Stanford Center for Professional Development:
http://scpd.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/

Duration : 1:27:17

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Alan Russell: Why can’t we grow new body parts?

April 52010

http://www.ted.com Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine — a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury by helping the body to rebuild itself. He shows how engineered tissue that “speaks the body’s language” has helped a man regrow his lost fingertip, how stem cells can rebuild damaged heart muscle, and how cell therapy can regenerate the skin of burned soldiers. This new, low-impact medicine comes just in time, Russell says — our aging population, with its steeply rising medical bills, will otherwise (and soon) cause a crisis in health care systems around the world. Some graphic medical imagery.

Duration : 0:21:23

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Industrial, Product and Automotive Design Degree Show

March 272010

Here is a look around the Industrial Design Degree Show.

There were hundreds of people there from a number of industries and organisations to look at new concepts for cars, boats, products, toys, helicopters, health design and much more.

To find out more about the projects please visit the Industrial Design Degree Show website http://www.coventry.ac.uk/degreeshow

Duration : 0:6:0

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Safer Processing of Fresh-cut Produce Part 3 Facilty Design

March 212010

The California Department of Public Health in collaboration with the U.S. FDA, CDC, university researchers, and industry representatives developed this video to assist the fresh-cut produce industry in producing safer products. The video may also be useful for retailers, regulators, and anyone working with the industry who wants to understand safer fresh-cut produce processing and current recommendations for best production practices.

Duration : 0:7:21

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Ruby Heart Design

March 92010

Step-by-step instructions for creating ruby heart design. In this episode we present step-by-step instructions for creating ruby heart design by painting the toenails soft white color, drawing a heart shape and placing a ruby gem in the middle. Pink French tip and strawberry toe ring complete the look.

Duration : 0:8:58

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Design for Safety in Construction (Civil Engineering)

March 32010

An educational resource to provide an example of health and safety consideration in design.

Duration : 0:7:6

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BuildingGreenTV: Natural Light

February 282010

Kevin shows us how he incorporated natural light strategies and techniques into the building of his straw bale home; a look at Solatubes natural lighting solutions. Abstract of “Building Green,” season one, airing on PBS affiliates nationally

Duration : 0:1:51

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Adelphoi: ADULT SEXUAL HEALTH – Wear A Condom

February 282010

Project: Adult Sexual Health ‘Essential Health’
Agency: DLKW
Production Company: Thomas Thomas
Director: Kevin Thomas
This campaign for the NHS has received many broadsheet column inches, hailing the commercial as the most important sexual health campaign since the AIDS ‘Iceberg’. Working closely to the dark visuals we created a slow, sexy, dirty track using female vocals and uncomfortable sound design to support the message that ‘Sexually Transmitted Diseases are spreading’.

Duration : 0:0:32

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New Three Way Toilet Design: Form and Function

February 252010

A new three way toilet design that harnesses form and function to serve hygiene, health, comfort and courtesy. The design combines Asian, European and North American toilet conventions.

Duration : 0:0:44

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