Building a Mission to Mars
Not an easy feat. It is full of compromise between cost, scientific discovery, and construction. NASA wanted to communicate a taste of this complexity to the public, and with InterKnowlogy’s custom software development services, created a Surface and Windows 7 game called Mars Bound. Designed for all age groups, Mars Bound turns anyone into a mission designer.
Training Simulations in Silverlight
In partnership with Crisis Simulations International, a radiation detection training simulation was built in Silverlight for the Department of Homeland Security.
Surface Empowers Learning
The University of Minnesota Duluth’s Medical School Department of Physiology and Pharmacology is using Surface as a tool for learning. Their first application is rooted in chemistry, turning the periodic table of elements on end. Leveraging InterKnowlogy’s design skills and custom software development expertise, the University now has a completely new way to teach and engage their science students.
Super-Sized WPF Applications
EMN8 enables rich content management for their fast food touch kiosks with WPF. A manual process that took days to complete with their customers is now gone. Their customers work directly with their media and see it in action before it ever reaches their kiosks.
Harmony
Colonial Life trusts InterKnowlogy to build a better experience between agents and their customers in WPF. WPF is not just for show – the largest companies are using it to build their mission-critical business applications.
Breaking the Barriers
Communicating complex heart procedures to patients is challenging. VitruView allows doctors to communicate to their patients what heart surgery needs to be performed.
Uncovering the Secrets of Cancer
Dr. Peter Kuhn and his colleagues around the world needed a new way to collaborate to unlock the secrets of cancer. C-ME breaks the mold by allowing scientists to use molecules to navigate their research.
Helping Those Who Help Us
Healthcare is not only stressful for patients – it takes its mental toll on healthcare providers too. See how Microsoft Surface is helping Penn State Hospital make a difference.
History at Your Fingertips
Microsoft Surface enables the Library of Congress to provide unique experiences to the public. Featured at the DNC and RNC in 2008, and now in the Library of Congress, History at Your Fingertips allows the public to explore U.S. presidential nominating conventions.
Building a Mission to Mars
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Mars Bound is a NASA museum showcase application that converted an existing card-based game into an interactive experience with a NUI. Select the type of mission you want to build, and then construct all aspects of the mission. For example, select a Mars rover mission, then plan the power systems, rocket, communications, computers, mechanical, entry systems, and mobility options. Once your budget, power, weight, and scientific discovery potential have been balanced, you can launch your mission. The Surface application was designed for NASA’s museum, and the Windows 7 version was designed to teach children in a classroom setting. With the design provided by Mondo Robot, InterKnowlogy implemented Mars Bound in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for Microsoft Surface and Windows 7. Technologies and concepts used: Custom Software Development, Microsoft Surface, Windows 7, WPF, Natural User Interface Related Links |
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Training Simulations in Silverlight
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One of the many responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to provide rigorous training for law enforcement on how to operate radiation detection equipment, and best practices for detecting and isolating possible radiation sources. As it is not often that law enforcement encounters radiation sources, these infrequently used skills require more frequent training. Providing in-person training to law enforcement teams at this frequency, however, is not feasible. The DHS reached out to several companies to build a simulation that allows law enforcement to reinforce their skills through interactive training. InterKnowlogy teamed with Crisis Simulations International (CSI), to build this solution. CSI has a long history of building training simulations and owns a proprietary simulation engine. InterKnowlogy’s expertise in user interface design and Silverlight was leveraged to integrate into their simulation engine. In the end, a fully configurable simulation experience was created and demonstrated to the DHS. From this effort, the DHS has selected the InterKnowlogy and CSI teams to provide a Silverlight based training simulation for roll out across the country. Technologies and concepts used: Custom Software Development, Silverlight, Rich Internet Application (RIA) Related Links |
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Surface Empowers Learning
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The University of Minnesota Duluth is a progressive learning institution, constantly seeking new ways to engage students. As part of their exploration, they saw Surface as the means to turn foundational scientific material into an engaging educational experience. They first tackled the periodic table of the elements. Hanging on the walls in schools everywhere, the numbers often too small to read and the acronyms hard to remember, the University of Minnesota Duluth envisioned a periodic table of elements that could be touched and explored. Utilizing WPF and InterKnowlogy’s development and design services, a novel experience was created for Surface and a NUI was built to facilitate the teaching and learning process. Science Education Award | Department of Health and Human Services | National Institutes of Health | NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | 3R25GM053403-08S1 | Principal Investigator: Benjamin L. Clarke Project Title: Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree University of Minnesota Duluth Technologies and concepts used: Software Development, Microsoft Surface, MVVM, Natural User Interface Related Links |
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Super-Sized WPF Applications
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EMN8 supplies interactive kiosks for the quick food service industry. The process of taking the rich content from their customers and converting it into an interactive experience was extremely time consuming and prone to many cycles of re-work. Their customers simply could not visualize the rich content until it was on the kiosk, and then had to repeat the cycle if there were things that needed to be changed. Efficiency was greatly increased when InterKnowlogy created a WPF application to automate the entire process. Integrated with an open source content management system, InterKnowlogy turned the menu creation experience into a highly visual and interactive process. It enables the marketing people from EMN8’s customers to upload and manipulate content in multiple languages and then visualize the kiosk experience within a WPF simulation prior to "going live". Technologies and concepts used: Software Development, Windows 7, WPF, MVVM Related Links |
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Harmony
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Colonial Life desired to create a better experience for their agents, brokers, and potential policyholders. They were supporting two separate applications to facilitate the enrollment process (for offline and online use). Maintenance was challenging with multiple code bases that shared so much functionality. With the help of InterKnowlogy, a new line of business application called Harmony was created using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). InterKnowlogy provided the design, architecture, and development services to the Colonial Life team. The new application provides a much more engaging experience for the users, elevates the confidence of potential policyholders, better data integrity, and reduces the overall maintenance of the application. Technologies and concepts used: Software Development, WPF, MVVM Related Links |
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Breaking the Barriers
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Built by InterKnowlogy, VitruView enables doctors to annotate a 3D image of a heart. There is both a desktop version (called Angiographer) and a version targeted for Microsoft Surface (called VitruView, with HealthVault integration). Using only their fingers, zooming in and out, selecting arteries or drawing new ones, Angiographer provides a unique and intuitive experience both to doctors and patients. Despite containing well over fifty thousand triangles, the heart model rotates smoothly even on average graphics processors. Angiographer also makes extensive use of WPF’s vector graphics engine and control styling to create an unique immersive interface that is simple to use yet still visually compelling. Technologies and concepts used: Custom Software Development, Microsoft Surface, Natural User Interface Related Links |
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Uncovering the Secrets of Cancer
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Built by InterKnowlogy, the Collaborative Molecular Environment (C-ME) allows researchers to annotate 3-D molecular images with any kind of document. When researchers are viewing a molecule and want to enter a note, they right-click on the 3-D surface of the molecule and attach a word-processing document, an Adobe Acrobat file, a presentation, an image, or anything else. This “pins” the information in the document to a specific spot on the molecular image. The 3-D images and the related research documents are stored in an online collaboration site, where they are accessible to any authorized researcher. The C-ME has enabled a faster path to medical discoveries. The team has been able to create a central data repository containing documents in almost any format; researchers are not limited in how they organize data. The ability to link multiple kinds of data to an image of a single molecule makes it easier to organize experiments, collect and distribute results, and speed up the process of uncovering deeper knowledge from experiments in different fields. Technologies and concepts used: Microsoft Surface, NUI Related Links |
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Helping Those Who Help Us
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Penn State Hospital has many progressive programs to provide state of the art healthcare. They determined that due to the stress of high impact events, many Emergency Department employees needed help to deal with the mental toll. There are well known psychological tests that measure the stress due to high impact events, but no one wants to take surveys and tests. Utilizing Microsoft Surface, the Impact Event Scale (IES) was implemented to allow healthcare providers to perform self-testing. Surface ID tags are issued to each employee for security, so only select researchers would know who took the test. Technologies and concepts used: Custom Software Development, Microsoft Surface, Natural User Interface Related Links |
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History at Your Fingertips
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History at Your Fingertips is a Microsoft Surface application developed by InterKnowlogy. It enables multiple users to browse through media content from past nominating conventions. All media content was supplied by the Library of Congress. Users can view convention locations and associated years on a map, and touch any convention to view related media, including video, audio, pictures, and manuscripts. Also, they can explore the past winners and see the different states highlighted based on Electoral College results. History at Your Fingertips was features in 2008 at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The application was developed on Microsoft’s Surface technology which allows users to explore and manipulate a wide-range of digital multi-media content on a communal table-top surface using only touch. InterKnowlogy leveraged their Kiosk Solution Framework to quickly build this solution. Technologies and concepts used: Custom Software Development, Microsoft Surface, Natural User Interface Related Links |
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