These past two weeks we have been working on the Grace Hopper poster submission. We met with our professor, Katie Siek, to discuss the paper in more detail. We decided not to do the student competition because it would be …
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Back from Break
The Beginnings of a Prototype
We have started a prototype with neoprene and some spandex materials. Our graduate student advisor suggested that we create the different parts of the prototype separately so that we can figure out what individual parts have issues that need to …
Changes
In the past two weeks, after we learned that we were going to change to making a leg device, we changed our design. We thought that we would have straps with clasps on the sides of the leg so that …
From Elbow to Knee
We were able to get feedback on our design from a physical therapist that practices in our university health center. She told us that motivation is not really a factor since most patients want to get better as soon as …
New Design for Arm Enclosure
This week we created a new design for the arm enclosure.
Originally, we thought that a full arm enclosure would be best; however, since many of the doctors at the WISH Workshop gave positive comments on the lightness of the …
WISH Workshop in Washington DC
This past weekend Alice and I went to the WISH Workshop with AMIA in Washington DC along with many of the other lab members and our professor. Our paper for our project was accepted and we were able to present …
Working on poster for WISH Conference and working with Arduino and flex sensor
We have been working on creating the poster for the WISH conference in Washington D.C. while experimenting with the Arduino board and flex sensor.
For the WISH poster, we created an image of the arm and blocks of text around …
Researching Arduino Boards
For our Visualizing Physical Therapy Project with CREU we will be using Arduino to program the visualization of electroluminescent wire (EL wire). This week I researched which Arduino hardware board would be most conducive to our project and prototypes. For …