Virtual Microscope

Central IT Services, University of Malaga

Ignacio Pérez, Manuel Baleriola, Victoriano Giralt

.: Definitions

.: Current situation and necessity

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.: Architecture

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.: Demo

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.: Definitions

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What’s a microscope?

Definitions

Revolving nosepiece

Objectives

Coarse focusing

Fine focusing

Stage

Stage clips

Arm

Diaphragm

Light source

Base

Eyepiece lensObservation tube

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Current education system

Current situation

More dificult to teach and learn

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We need other ways to teach

Current situation

It is not always possible

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Virtuality is the solution

Current situation

Full accessibilitySingle administration

We can also share resources

Current situation

Federation

Why build another tool?

Current situation

Java Java

Not open source

The students need have java installed

Why build another tool?

Current situation

In others the interface is not like a real microscope

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We need more features

Current situation

StudentscommentsTeacher

annotations

Federated access

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Virtuality into microscope

Objectives

Image galleryImage information:

AuthorDescription

Magnification levels

Select an image

40x20x5x

Virtuality into microscope

Objectives

Nucleus

Ribosome

Annotations

Vertical and horizontal displacement

Diferent levels of magnification

Virtuality into microscope

Objectives

Comments of the image:

Alice: What’s the orange zone?Teacher: It’s a ribosome.Dave: …

Interaction, feed back

Federated access

Objectives

Need login

University of

Cambridge

University of

Salamanca

University of Malaga

User:

Password:

Bob

************ Must choose the id provider

Choose this

User and password input

Access OK

Bob

Centralized permission admin

Objectives

Administrators Superuser

Teachers

Students

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Pyramidal TIFF images

Architecture

Equals size of picture elements

Different images, different sizes

Client, server and directory

Architecture

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Results

Results

.: Definitions

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.: Definitions

.: Current situation and necessity

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Future work

Future work

.: More realistic interface

.: Total freedom in selection areas

.: Allow the combination images

.: Friendlier administration zone

Thanks

Thanks

Special thanks:Dra. Antonia Gutierrez

Any question?

Questions

Please, be gentle

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