POSE – Palm Operating System
Emulator
Ross Vanderbush, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Pharmacy, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
ABSTRACT:
The use
of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) has become almost ubiquitous in health
education centers and the health profession, yet many student and faculty users
are unfamiliar with both the available software features of the PDA as well as
how to correctly use professional medical programs installed on these PDA
devices. The Palm Operating System
Emulator (POSE) is software that emulates the various models of palm powered
devices (creates a full featured virtual Palm device) that can be used to
convert your laptop or desktop to the Palm operating system. Skins of any Palm
device can be added to mimic the specific models that the audience owns. This
software is useful for demonstrating, writing, debugging, or testing PDA
software. This enables you either to develop Palm operating system software or
to install commercially available PDA software to your laptop or desktop. By
loading the software to your laptop, you can digitally project full screen your
virtual PDA to an overhead screen where all students in the audience can view
the steps and features you are instructing or illustrating. As instructor you
can teach, compare, and illustrate to your class or audience the features of
the various professional software running on the Palm operating system.
Furthermore multiple devices can be run side-by-side on the digitally projected
screen. Participants will have an opportunity to use the device and will
quickly recognize many applications in medical instruction.
Examples
in using POSE for instruction can be found at http://www.uams.edu/classinformatics/pda/PDAanim.html
and the software and definitions can be found at http://www.palm.com/developers
BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:
The POSE
software installed on your digitally projected laptop or PC can be used to
either instruct students on how to use the various features of Palm Operating
system PDA or be used to digitally project PDA installed programs to your
audience. This ability to project in a large screen format can reduce your
technical questions and speed acceptance of PDA’s or PDA based programs by
students of any PDA program. Two or three PDA’s can be running side by side
simultaneously on your projected laptop demonstrating to your students the
differences and nuances of the different available professional programs.
Further the POSE can be used to promote your PDA developed software product to
students, colleagues, customers or the public. By using the POSE software you
can improve your teaching and the students’ learning efficiency.
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College
of Pharmacy |
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Dr.
Ross E. Vanderbush College
of Pharmacy |
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Clinical
Coordinator, NTPDP |
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Mail
#522 |
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Little
Rock, AR 72205 |
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Fax
501-526-6872 Phone
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