Solving the Challenges of Healthcare and Life Sciences with Microsoft Touch

Technologies

Tim HuckabyCEO/Founder, InterKnowlogyMicrosoft RD & MVP

About…

• InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com)• Tim Huckaby, CEO (TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com)

– Custom Application Development / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering Firm headquartered in Carlsbad, CA

– Design, Architect, Build and Deploy Enterprise Class Applications – Industry Experts:

•Most of the employees are published, MVPs, RD, Speakers, etc.•Microsoft .NET Application development since 2000•Microsoft .NET Rich Client /RIA Pioneers: Industry Leaders•Microsoft Multi-Touch App Development Leaders (Surface / Windows 7 / Silverlight 3)•Information Worker Solutions (VSTO & SharePoint)•Integration / Messaging, B2B / B2C, Wireless / Mobility •Leading Edge: Surface, WPF, Silverlight, Win7 touch, SharePoint, VSTO•Cutting Edge Solutions on emerging Microsoft technologies•Largest Client: Microsoft

Touch Capable Computing: Using Natural User Interface (NUI) Technologies Improve The Patient Experience

Multi-Touch Software built in Microsoft .NET: WPF, Surface, & Silverlight 3.0

Hardware & Software Platforms for Touch Computing

Multi-touch enabled applications, used in healthcare to improve the communication, education and experience overall across the health and life sciences continuum.

Session Agenda

Demos, Demos, Demos

WPF 3D:The Scripps Research Institute

VitruView

Tim HuckabyCEO, InterKnowlogyMicrosoft RD & MVP

DEMO

Touch Capable Computing Devices are Not New

Past Future(Now)

Present

1972: PLATO IV Touch Screen Terminal The Microsoft Surface Windows 7 Multi-touch

What is Relatively New is:

Inexpensive Touch Capable, Non Proprietary HardwareA Multi-Touch Capable Windows OS A Consistent Multi-Touch API for .NET across 3 Windows Hardware/Software Platforms Developer Productivity in Touch Capable AppsThe Forecast of Touch Capability in Every New Computing Device in the Short Term

HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONSCapacitiveInfraredResistive

Hardware

CapacitiveHP Touchsmart tx2N-trig (2-10)

InfraredHP Touchsmart IQ816NewWindow(2)

CapacitiveDell LatitudeXT2N-Trig (2-10)

How to touch Resistive Think Push Down and drag

How to touch

Capacitive Think Electric Impulse

Common hardware implementations

• Capacitive– iPhone – Capacitive multi-touch cell phone / PDA

– HP TouchSmart TX2 – Dual touch capacitive laptop screen.

– Dell Latitude XT – Multi-Touch tablet using N-Trig capacitive technology

– MacBook Pro – Capacitive Multi-Touch pad with traditional click

– N-Trig – Capacitive monitor overlay vendor (Windows 7 Drivers)

How to touch

Infrared Think laser pointer(s)

Common hardware implementations

• Infrared– Surface – Infrared diffused illumination multi-touch “table”

device

– Perceptive Pixel – Frustrated total internal reflection multi-touch panels

– HP TouchSmart – Infrared dual touch bezel all in one computer

– NextWindow – Infrared Multi-Touch bezel vendor (Windows 7 Drivers)

SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS(ON THE MICROSOFT PLATFORM)

Windows Desktop: WPFSurface: WPFBrowser: Silverlight

History of Surface

2003The first prototype is presented to Bill Gates

2004A dedicated group is formed,

and more than 85 prototypes are developed

2007Microsoft Surface is unveiled to the world 

2001The concept of an interactive table is born

2005The look and feel of Surface is finalized

Microsoft Surface Healthcare DemosVideo

Tim HuckabyCEO, InterKnowlogyMicrosoft RD & MVP

DEMO

Why WPF?

• The GDI & USER subsystems were introduced in Windows 1.0 in 1985

• OpenGL – Early 90s• DirectX – 1995

• Goal: Overcome the limits of GDI+ & USER with the productivity of Windows Forms

• Translation: The power of DirectX and the Developer Productivity of .NET

Windows 7 WPF Multi-Touch Demos

Tim HuckabyCEO, InterKnowlogyMicrosoft RD & MVP

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Silverlight… “WPF Light”

• Interactive experiences for devices, PC, & Mac platforms (and others…)• Strict subset of Windows Presentation Foundation• Lightweight download (4.2mbs)• Programming model uses XAML + Jscript + WPF• Access to WPF tooling• Touch Capability in Version 3.0

Lightweight WPF runtime

<XAML> <Button Width="100px"> OK <Button.Background> LightBlue </Button.Background> </Button></XAML>

WPF-based Tools

Eclipsys CorporationSilverlight 3 - Enterprise Visibility Real-time Hospital Operations

Tim HuckabyCEO, InterKnowlogyMicrosoft RD & MVP

DEMO

Silverlight 3.0 Demos

Tim HuckabyCEO, InterKnowlogyMicrosoft RD & MVP

DEMO

Try Multi-Touch in Silverlight Now!

The InterKnowlogy Multi-Touch Enabled ScatterView Control

http://client.interknowlogy.com/scatterviewdemo/

Summary• We are at the Cusp of the NUI revolution• Using Natural User Interface (NUI) Technologies Improve The

Patient Experience• Multi-Touch enabled applications can be used in healthcare to

improve the communication, education and experience overall across the health and life sciences continuum.

• The Tools, Plumbing and platforms for touch based computing are powerful and available

• Within a short time frame computers with touch capability will be the norm.

• The .NET stack for Touch Based Software (Surface, WPF & Silverlight 3.0) is elegant and powerful

• The Concepts of NUI change the way we design and build software

Tim Huckaby, InterKnowlogy• More info on InterKnowlogy:– www.InterKnowlogy.com

• Contact me: Tim Huckaby– E-mail: TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com– Phone: 760-444-8640– Blog: http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/timhuckaby

• About Tim Huckaby…– CEO, InterKnowlogy– Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern California– Microsoft® .NET Partner Advisory Council Founder / Member– Microsoft® MVP - .NET – Microsoft® Surface Partner Advisory Council– INETA Speaker – International .NET Users Group Association– Windows and .NET Magazine Advisory Board Member– .NET Developers Journal Magazine Advisory Board Member– Author / Speaker