Carl Streed Jr, MD – Medical school curricula have only a median of 5 hours dedicated to sexual and gender minority (SGM)-related content with nearly a third of schools reporting zero hours of SGM-related content. Other research reported that fewer than half of...

Drew Fast – Virtual Reality has tremendous potential to change the ways people work, play and learn; however, this new medium presents unique challenges to inclusive design. Accessibility is always one of the first things on the chopping block when working on a tight...

Erica Chin – This talk will be about how to prepare for multimedia work in an international or low-resource setting, setting expectations for this type of work, and implementing communication practices when working with culturally diverse populations. Tips on how to...

Hillary Wilson – Gender dysphoria occurs when an individual’s psychological identity as a male or female conflicts with their biological sexual characteristics, resulting in anxiety, depression, and distress. Transgender individuals often face harassment,...

Angela Gao – VT Scholar Presentation (5 Minutes) Translating new discoveries into viable therapies is dependent upon communication between scientists and medical professionals, especially in the emerging field of nanomedicine. Understanding of mechanisms on the...

Kyle McClary – Art and science are natural companions. Both are a means of investigation and discovery. Both involve ideas, theories, and hypotheses that we test in places where mind and hand come together—the laboratory and studio. Artists, like scientists,...

Andrew Swift, CMI – An overview of a tutorial series which follows along as an ant is sculpted from start to finish in ZBrush. Beginning with reference photos from AntWeb.Org this series of narrated video tutorials and project files details each step in a workflow...

Chris Manfre – Visual learners sitting in science classes struggle to grasp concepts through lectures given with pictures and drawings on white boards. Although there are countless animations, 3D renderings and other digital content online that can aide professors in...

Rick Gersony, FAMI – Pharma and medical device sales people have less time to effectively communicate complex ideas and engage their clients. One solution is to transform traditional business card into a delightful augmented reality (AR) teaching tool that enhances...

Amy Robinson Sterling – Amy Robinson Sterling will share an update on neurons reconstructed in Eyewire, a brain mapping game that was presented at AMI in 2016. Eyewire sits at the intersection of science and design, inviting puzzle gamers from around the world to work...

  Todd Buck, CMI, FAMI – We as illustrators and educators have a unique opportunity to promote inclusiveness, empathy, and compassion through the people we represent in our illustrations. "Another WASP! Where is the ethnic diversity?" This was written on one of my...

Edwin Choi – Without standards of health data, health IT systems are unable to communicate with each other, costing tens of billions of dollars in waste per year in the US and causing medical errors, stifling medical research, and reducing quality of care at all...

Adriana Orland, MS – Multiple strategies exist when designing for virtual reality. In this talk, I will discuss how my background in biomedical visualization enhances and informs my approach, as a UX designer at Osso VR, to design a user centric experience that trains...

Michael Horvath – Creating designs that look great is simple. The ultimate design is one that has broad-audience engagement and works for everyone. Universal design, the design of making things usable by all people, can be challenging. Designers need to use strategies...