This autobiographical account by artist Rita Addison describes perceptual
changes she experienced subsequent to her head injury in a car accident.
DETOUR uses computer brain models and medical imaging to demonstrate
anatomical trauma. In the final section, Addison's pre-accident photographic
art is reconfigured to simulate the perceptual damage she sustained.
A virtual-reality experience can be a powerful way to evoke and stretch
empathic capabilities. Whether it is used in collaborative medical
evaluations or to educate medical professionals, students, patients, and
families, virtual-reality technology is a unique and invaluable tool for
communication.
Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to Maggie Rawlings, Dan Sandin, Jason Leigh, and Carolina
Cruz-Neira of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Robert V. Kenyon
of the UIC Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Lew
Sadler and Paul Neumann of the UIC Biomedical Visualization Laboratory;
Robert Grzeszczuk and Noam Alperin of the University of Chicago; the Boston
Computer Society's Virtual Reality Group; David Youatt of Silicon Graphics,
Inc.; and Craig Mathias of the New England SIGGRAPH local chapter.
Collaborators:
Rita K. Addison
Conceptual Artist and Project Director
David Zeltzer
Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
Marcus Thiebaux
Dave Swoboda
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
Contact:
Rita Addison
P.O. Box 550
Hamilton, MA 01936 USA
raddison@world.std.com
MEDICAL IMAGING
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