Show HN: kenHub - anatomy learning platform

http://www.kenhub.com

by gingerlime • 14 years ago

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duiker101• 14 years ago

I'm not into anatomy but I have to say that I really enjoyed the demo! The way it went a bit harder each time, with the same elements really help! Great product! I liked it!

gingerlime5• 14 years ago

would really appreciate some feedback / suggestions / ideas. I know probably most people on HN are not really into anatomy. Nevertheless, it's nice to hear different perspectives. We're not going to be the next facebook, but we really hope to improve how students learn anatomy.

chillax3• 14 years ago

Will there be something more geared towards learning more than what the individual parts are/do besides from naming it from a chart? E.g. more like the biomechanics of it?

gingerlime5• 14 years ago

At the moment we're focusing on memorizing the actual terms/structures, which seems like that most mundane and frustrating part with 'standard' anatomy learning tools (and the primary reason we created kenHub).

To be honest, we're not too sure what the next steps are. We want to cover the core aspects first before we add more functionality. This is why we're trying to gather some feedback at a fairly early stage.

That said, we're certainly thinking about other aspects of anatomy, medicine and learning we could expand to.

mkl• 14 years ago

The demo is great. I like the repetition with different ways of asking. It would be nice to have the option of the common English names too, like "iliac crest" instead of "crista iliaca". I'm coming to it from an art perspective rather than a medical one. Does it teach the direction words too? ("anterior", "distal", etc.)

chillax3• 14 years ago

Uhm. One thing I struggle a bit with when clicking through and answering the questions is to see what orientation (front/back/rotated(?)) the bones have, especially around the hips. Perhaps some cards at the beginning of the lower extremity to prime that aspect could be useful. My 2 cents. :)

gingerlime5• 14 years ago

Good point. We're already thinking about adding exactly this. Currently trying to work out how to display this visually without overloading, and also not making it too easy for people who want more challenge.

donebizkit4• 14 years ago

Kudos to the dev team. I like the web, sound and animation of the site/demo. Very clean. Do you mind sharing your dev stack and tools?

gingerlime5• 14 years ago

Thanks. We're currently using (in no particular order):

Twitter Bootstrap; Knockout; Rails 3; Postgresql for 'standard' models; Redis for training-stats + background tasks; Capybara + rspec + semaphore (CI); git (github); Linode; Vim / Textmate; ...and IBM Model-M keyboard :)

jeffcoat• 14 years ago

Great demo.

The last question, where I had to name and spell the part, caught me by surprise -- the difficultly level had, up until then, been increasing very slowly, and that felt like a huge jump.

Wishlist feature: Speech recognition, in the sense of having to name a part out loud.

maxk_ua• 14 years ago

Demo is awesome!

hanbo• 14 years ago

wow, spent like 5 mins on the demo and already i feel like a doctor! omfgZoMG awesome!

tcmb• 14 years ago

Looks really promising! If I had to learn anatomy, I guess I would use your tool!

smadam9• 14 years ago

Site looks like it will be very helpful for students/people learning anatomy.

After completing your demo, I joked with a colleague of mine that "I'm already closer to being a doctor".

Would be a great tool for universities, as well as primary and secondary schools. Remembering the names of bones in the body when I was 14 wasn't very enjoyable; this would have made it much more interesting for me. Not to mention that it harps on multiple senses which would have helped me get a better score when I was 14 ;-)

incision• 14 years ago

Wow, how incredibly timely...

Just this morning I was griping to a friend about my frustration at the lack of modern / affordable / convenient / dynamic tools for learning Anatomy & Physiology as it's a course my SO is currently taking.

This looks really, really good. A potential godsend.

edgarvaldes• 14 years ago

I will use it for my drawing learning. Thanks.

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