XR Tumor Evolution Project (XRTEP) is an immersive arena that combines physical architecture with digital clinical information. XRTEP is a hybrid environment that seeks social interaction between participants — experts and otherwise — and furnishes them with tools and data in space to enable real-time collaboration around how and why cancer spreads in the human body. An interactive holographic model of a single cancer patient and their many tumors is located at the center of a curated physical and digital space. Participants watch tumors grow, shrink, and spread over time; discern patterns in the data, and connect them to their spatial origins. Combining human-computer interaction with traditional spatial-material practice, XRTEP provokes discussion and anticipates disagreement. Hypotheses form and reform, through new connections being drawn by and between people, artefacts and data — in time and space.
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The patient, and her supportive whānau, who made this research possible through her generous donation; Cristin Print (FMHS), Kate Parker (Waitematā District Health Board), Cherie Blenkiron (FMHS), Peter Tsai (FMHS), Yvette Wharton (CeR), Jenny Lee Roper (CeR), Bianca Haux (CeR), Nick Young (CeR), Denice Belsten (School of Architecture and Planning), Jack Guo (School of Architecture and Planning), Charlotta Windahl (SE/NZ)