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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 al-lows 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 high-fidelity prototype and its heuristic evaluation.
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Pereira, D., Gomes, P., Mota, É., Costa, E., Cruz-Correia, R., Coimbra, M. (2013). Combining a Tablet and an Electronic Stethoscope to Create a New Interaction Paradigm for Teaching Cardiac Auscultation. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_43
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