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Curtin University Showcases Student Talent through the Faculty of Humanities led Indigenous Futures Artwork Competition and ‘ReconciliAction’ Exhibition.

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What’s it like watching your child graduate? This one brought a tear to our eye!

[VD: Parents are interviewed at their children’s university graduation.]

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When an individual first enters custody, their details are recorded and archived. Body markings such as scars, tattoos and piercings are noted to help identify them if they are involved in future crimes. In some agencies, these markings are recorded on paper in the form of hand-drawn sketches.

To improve efficiency in intelligence gathering, a Curtin team has proposed a new mobile app that can help law enforcement officers identify offenders quickly just from their marks, scars and tattoos. The app captures and annotates images of suspects and records the location, scale, colour and description of their unique markings. The app also includes a search engine to identify possible offenders that match a text description or a physical image.

The app has been endorsed by the WA Police senior leadership team, who plan to deploy it across the entire WA Police force.

Team: Associate Professor Vidyasagar Potdar, Associate Professor Amy Tian (School of Management and Marketing), Mr Jason Luppnow, Ms Ash Roberts (School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences).

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VITooLs is a virtual reality training platform that simulates real-world scenarios, to help learners grasp complex concepts and practices. It provides teachers with the ability to scaffold learning material, whereby learning materials from different areas and levels of a course can be incorporated into one simulation.

The platform is designed primarily for teaching and training in pharmacology, which is an integral discipline of pharmacy, medicine, nursing, paramedicine and other biomedical sciences. Currently in prototype form, one training module simulates the learner administering adrenaline to a patient, which can’t be done in a laboratory setting or on human test subjects. Another prototype demonstrates the effect of drugs on a patient at the cellular level.
The intended users of the platform are university students; however, it can also be used to retrain and upskill practitioners.

Team: Dr Rima Caccetta, Associate Professor Lisa Tee (Curtin Medical School), Associate Professor Francesco Mancini, Mr Jonathan Pillai, Mr Justin Owen (School of Design and the Built Environment), Associate Professor Aneesh Krishna (School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences), Mr Matt Reed (Faculty of Humanities).

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