Combining a Tablet and an Electronic Stethoscope to Create a New Interaction Paradigm for Teaching Cardiac Auscultation
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Learning cardiac auscultation is a fundamental but hard task for a medicine student, involving a combination of gesture mechanics and cardiac sounds interpretation. We aim to create a low cost simulator combining a tablet and an electronic stethoscope, thus defining a new interaction paradigm that allows a student to train auscultation when and where they want. In this paper we evaluate the usability of a first approach to this new paradigm using a highfidelity prototype and its heuristic evaluation.
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