Conclusion
Current Status:
- Games screen is fully functional
- Music screen is just a screenshot
- Internet screen is just a screenshot
- Movies screen is fully functional
- Dr. Orders screen is fully functional
- Med/Cond screen is fully functional
- Room Controls screen is just a screenshot
- Walkthrough is partially functional
Future Improvements:
- Implement some music device
- Implement index search for diseases
- Implement help for each screen (text and voiceover)
- Have play button for Dr. Orders screen
- Make code for video playing consistent.
- Include trivia and other mind stimulating games
- Display dynamic time on all screens (include a clock)
- Show some kind of reaction on room controls screen (make interactive).
- Perhaps show some possible play/ff buttons while video is playing
- Make "call nurse" visible on front screen (where back usually is). Show indication that nurse is called.
- Make a way to quit the walkthrough prematurely.
- For the walkthrough, go through most if not all of the screens showing the functionality of PIE
- Make mouse invisible.
- Implement Internet screen such that it uses both the keyboard and mouse
- Fix Tetris bug (which causes most computers to crash)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all the programmers that worked on Flash MX 8.0 without whom we would not have been able to make a prototype so quickly. And especially thanks to Professor Ben Shneiderman for being flexible with due dates and actually responding to our emails.
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