Recent Projects (continued)
Projects developed as Ivey-League Interactive under contract to various third parties.
The Digital Hospital - Estco Medical / GE Healthcare
The award-winning Digital Hospital presentation was produced for distribution on CD-ROM and (in a simplified version), online.
This 14 minute presentation follows a stroke patient through his hospital experience from admitting to discharge, and demonstrates how the GE Centricity© suite of software can help hospitals integrate their operations and manage costs across departments - from admitting all the way to discharge and post-discharge.
I had the priviledge of working with GE Healthcare's video production team out of their Milwaukee, IL training centre. They looked after the casting, locations, and principal photography, while I was responsible for creating the storyboards and shot lists, and directing the shoot. I was also the team lead for production of the Flash presentation and the Windows PC wrapper application.
Bis Vista Monitoring System – Estco / Aspect Medical
Estco Medical was contracted by Aspect Medical Systems to create training modules and simulators for several of their products. The BIS Vista monitoring system is an instrument used by anaesthiologists to measure the Bispectral Index - a measure of consciousness.
We created a CD-ROM training manual and simulator that shipped with the product. Printed manuals were bundled on the CD as printable documents.
Event Builder – Ivey-League / Fednor
Event Builder is a community event and festival planning tool conceived by Le Centre Culturel Louis Hémon, in Chapleau, ON and created by Ivey-League Interactive, with funding from FedNor and Industry Canada.
The tool is a software program for Windows PCs, and it includes an interactive planning manual that steps festival organizers through a calendar of daily activities, from planning the event, to arranging funding and sponsorships to arranging venues and organizing volunteers. This is a very attractive little program which includes Flash animations, recorded audio and a wealth of useful tools and template documents. The software was distributed as a CD-ROM disc.
The tools Event Builder provides include an event calendar, an interactive planning checklist, pop-up "Sticky Notes", and a graphical contents tool that marks off your progress through the courseware in the manual.
The application was built in Flash (ActionScript 2) using a Windows wrapper technology provided by Northcode.
Imprint - Estco Medical / Imprint Research
Estco Medical was the primary developer for a new online focus group application created for a new company called Imprint Research Ltd. Imprint featured several improvements over competing online focus group tools, including an innovative interface that used avatars to represent each person in the group; modified views for moderators and observers; and a unique wizard-style tool to allow moderators to build presentations quickly and efficiently.
Imprint allowed moderators to show a variety of media as exhibits, including images, websites, movies, and Flash media. It featured integrated polling tools and a simple interface to allow moderators to select and use scripted dialogue. When participants were not viewing exhibits, they were shown a virtual roundtable where they could see all of the other participant avatars, and control the emotions projected by their avatar.
The back end of the application was built using C#.Net, while the front end was built in Flash (ActionScript 2). I was the front-end developer.
GE Centricity Demo – Estco Medical / GE Healthcare
The GE Centricity suite demo disc features short demo presentations for each of the offerings in the GE Centricity suit of products. This product was created by Estco Medical for GE Healthcare as a presentation tool their agents could use when introducing the Centricity product to hospitals and hospital administrators.
This product has been recast in many configurations, (some including all products, some featuring only specific products), and on a variety of media, including CD-ROM, mini-discs, thumbdrives given away as marketing gifts, and as online media.
About
Christopher Ivey provides application development services for the web and Windows standalone applications created by Ivey-League Interactive, while Katherine Ivey focuses on providing graphic design and marketing clients.
While Ivey-League Interactive provides services to a wide range of clients, Christopher worked for several years under exclusive contract to Estco Medical, LLC, which eventuallly became a component company of WhittmanHart Interactive.