UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 19, Page 5
February 13, 1992
Videodisc wins gold medal at Big Apple film festival

     An interactive videodisc program developed at the University
of Delaware won a Gold Medal in the New York Film Festival
international competition for Non-Broadcast Film and Video.
     Entitled Dynamics of Human Anatomy, the videodisc was
developed by David A. Barlow, director of the University's Physical
Education Program, along with Robert E. Neeves and Keith A.
Handling, associate professors of physical education, and the
Instructional Technology Center (ITC).
     The U.D. videodisc program took the top prize in the
festival's Interactive Video: Health/Medical Information category.
Second place went to the Dartmouth Medical School .
     Barlow, Neeves and Kathleen Troutman, ITC senior software
development analyst who served as the project coordinator and
instructional designer, accepted the award on Jan. 24 in ceremonies
in New York City.
     Dynamics of Human Anatomy is an interactive videodisc program
designed to teach allied health students functional and structural
anatomy using dissection of cadavers and extensive computer
interaction. In addition to original motion video of cadaver
dissection of all the major muscle groups and 450 sequences of
individual muscle dissection, the program uses biological slides,
computer animations, interactive tutorials, medical illustrations
of every muscle, and extensive student-controlled graphic overlays.
Spanning four laser videodisc sides with accompanying computer
software, Dynamics of Human Anatomy provides approximately 15
student contact hours.
     The project, which has been under development for four years,
is a joint effort of the Instructional Technology Center, the
College of Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation, and Lea &
Febiger Publishing Inc., which will publish the program. The
project also received support from the University's Center for
Teaching Effectiveness.
     In addition to Barlow, Neeves, Handling and Troutman, the
festival cited the following current and former ITC staff for their
work on the project: George Mulford, project manager; Paris
Magasiny, editor; Donna Zador, and Curtis Wayne, graphics; and
Philip Young, programmer. Also cited was Lea &Febiger medical
illustrator Grant Lashbrook. Other University staff who worked on
the project included Sharon Smith, Carol Fleck, Wendy Whipple,
Scott Gray, Dennis Williams and Carl Asti, all ITC, and Robert
Cohen, Photographic Services.
     The New York Festivals have for 34 years honored excellence in
communications media.
     In 1991, more than 12,000 entries in all media were submitted.
Of these, more than 3,000 television programs and promotion spots
and non-broadcast industrial and educational productions from 29
countries were submitted.
     In 1990, another University of Delaware videodisc, Bereavement
Counseling: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives, was awarded a
Bronze Medal in the competition.