Nanomedicine Explorer Kiosk

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Overview

Description:

The Nanomedicine Explorer is an interactive, updateable multimedia kiosk and media package, that is also available as a component of the Nanomedicine Exhibition. Visitors can explore a variety of topics and specific research areas in cancer nanomedicine through vivid animations and video story-telling up close with a diverse group of researchers. Interactive features include games, polls, and options to dig deeper into the material. Fully bilingual English/Espanol. Visitors can text message or email themselves a link to the companion website. Produced with support from the NIH NCRR SEPA program. The multimedia package can also be loaded into any computer display or custom-built cabinet to augment existing health, medicine,and nanotechnology exhibits.

Objectives

Big Idea:

The field of nanomedicine is rapidly expanding and may soon bring us long-hoped for improvements in areas such as cancer detection and treatment. Researchers from different fields bring together their expertise to develop novel and sometimes revolutionary approaches to the detection and treatment of disease. All new approaches must go through rigorous safety and efficacy testing procedures in vitro, in animal models, and in clinical trials before being approved.

Learning goals:

Nanomedicine is the applicaton of nanotechnology to medicine.
Nanotechnology is the science of the small and the engineering and applications of very small structures.
Nanomedicine researchers develop tiny materials, tools and devices that can work with extreme precision at the nanoscale, the scale of the molecules and cells that make up our bodies.
Nanotechnology has created many materials and devices with unique and distinctive features - providing a new "toolbox" to try to address many medical needs.
Experts from a variety of backgrounds and in a range of different science and engineering disciplines are coming together to address these challenges.
Research involves creativity, discipline, teamwork and inspiration; it is often rewarding in personal as well as professional ways.
What cancer is, and how it grows and metastasizes.
All new techniques must go through years of testing to ensure that they will work and that they will be safe.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering lead to new knowledge and innovations that weren't possible before.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Funding:

With development support from NIH SEPA grant RR15653.

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

Bio and medicine, Fundamentals, Materials, tools, and applications

Audience

7 and up

Permissions

Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Resources

Download all files (ZIP)

Files:

Nanomedicine Explorer Brochure

Nanomedicine Explorer photo 1

Nanomedicine Explorer photo 2

Nanomedicine Explorer photo 3

Nanomedicine Explorer Construction Drawings

Nanomedicine Explorer Manual

Nanomedicine Explorer Graphic Back Panel

Graphic NSF Credit

Links:

View the online version of the Nanomedicine Explorer

Nanomedicine Explorer Photos

Nanomedicine Explorer Video Preview

See FAQ #10 to learn more about downloading NISE Net video

Evaluations

Introduction to Nanomedicine Prototype Testing -- May 2008

This report summarizes the formative testing of multiple Nanomedicine prototypes as well as a comparison of visitors who experience both the Nanomedicine prototypes and the Introduction to Nanotechnology prototypes. Read more

Nanomedicine Explorer Interactive Multimedia Kiosk Formative Evaluation

The Nanomedicine Explorer kiosk at the Museum of Science, Boston provides opportunities to learn about nanomedicine, nanotechnology, cancer biology, new research in cancer diagnosis and therapy, and the process of medical research from bench to bedside. This report is the formative evaluation of the prototype of this kiosk, presenting the results of visitor observations, exit surveys, and interviews. The findings of these data served to provide the Nanomedicine Explorer production team a basis from which to make improvements to the program, which was released as Version 1.0 in May of 2009. Read more

Year 5 Summative Evaluation of Exhibits and Programs

As part of the overall summative evaluation of the first five years of the NISE Network, the Year 5 Exhibits and Programs Study examines the measurable impacts of these public products on museum visitors. Read more