LJG Partners

“The new El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley is the most technologically advanced in the world.”
Voted “Best of 2009” by Popular Science Magazine

LJG was commissioned to create and program 3D diagrammatic visuals for this state-of-the-art hospital’s wayfinding directory, accessible by department as well as meeting name and location. Featuring five floors, this interface located in several strategic locations within the hospital, directs visitors to their selected locations in an intuitive and graphically easy to understand format. Nice large color-coded buttons mean no searching through typical text indexes. Bright, colorful pathways and destination markers over semi-transparent “gel” 3D diagrams of each floor make it clear which path to take to their destination. There is also an interactive 2D campus map section providing wayfinding support to other buildings and facilities within the medical campus.

The back-end programming of this new directory features many innovative aspects including:

• XML-based system: dynamically loaded path information means most cosmetic changes can be accomplished without rewriting any application code
• Integrated with 3rd Party scheduling software to show the locations of meetings (updated daily)
• An administration console allows end-users to change text content of menus and end-points
• Developed in Actionscript 3, deployed on a “shell-less” Windows XP environment (Operating System was branded to look like ECH proprietary), contains a “watch-dog” system written in Python to reboot application if it ever encounters any critical errors

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