FrameHunt

FrameHunt is a small spotting game I have been putting together with Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health. Students get a picture and a short brief — click the named bit of the body — and the score cares about whether you hit it, how many times you missed, and how quickly you got there. There is a league table and a slightly tongue-in-cheek grade ladder from medical student up. The nearest classroom comparison is Times Tables Rock Stars, except the thing you are practising is where that structure is, not 8 × 7.

It is early. The homepage already talks about nodules, fractures, and a CXR station, because the conversation is heading that way. The cases you can actually click are still the obvious starter pictures, so people can try the loop without waiting for a real image set. Faculty can upload a picture and draw around the finding, which is probably the bit that matters if this is going to grow past a demo. It runs as ordinary PHP and MySQL on the CEDS demos host, which was the point: something we can click in a meeting without a new platform.

I would not call it finished. It is a talking point with the department. The first version, the same day, was a hunt through fake movie stills; the click-and-score guts stayed, the pictures and the dressing changed. Cursor wrote a lot of the wiring. If it goes anywhere, it will be because IPH want to use it with students.