Dr Maxwell Ross showed a couple of reversible nasal saws made for his colleague, Dr Hunter Mackenzie, by Mr Young. They were an improvement upon the saws in previous use, in that they were made so that they could be set at any angle, and their reversibility allowed of their being used to saw upwards or downwards as the operator desired. The serrated edge was not carried all the length of the in...

We employ an image identification algorithm for interactive museum guide with pictures taken by camera phones. Our algorithm is based on the shift-invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm. However, efficiency is a critical issue in the real-time interactive system, so a simplified version of SIFT algorithm is implemented in this work. Our testing database includes 33 paintings at the Cantor...

This difficult question is yet to be answered, but the Leeds Public Health Department made an interesting move in this direction with their Mental Health Fortnight, held last June in central premises, occupied by the Central Council for Health Education. During previous fortnights, various aspects of Public Health, for example Maternity and Child Welfare, Food, Care of Eyes and Teeth, etc. had ...

Interactive storytelling and gaming technologies have great edutainment potential for engaging visitors with museum exhibitions. This paper presents the development and testing of the Interactive Storytelling Exhibition Project devised originally within the Factual and Learning Interactive Television Department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and continued development at the Unive...