Our last week in Fab Lab brought together the skills we had learned over the past few workshops. The tilt sensor, laser cut watch face, and Arduino were all assembled in order to create our final project, an assistive watch for therapy sessions for outpatients. This watch would count each curl and twist a patient did to better keep track of their routine rehabilitating workouts. Personally, I enjoyed learning some of the coding aspects as I have worked briefly with Arduino previously in an electric engineering course.
The photos below show the watch with the Arduino inside of it along with the interface that would track when a movement is made.
During the second half of class we had the opportunity to meet back up with our team. Here, we created a storyboard to outline what an average user for our product would look like. This helped us visualize the steps a customer may have to go through in order to better understand the needs of the user. A picture of our timeline is below.
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Hi Elisa, I really like how you have all the things we have done in class laid out concisely in this reflection. One suggestion that I would make is to change the orientation of the pictures you uploaded so that it is easier to see the images instead of having the need to turn to see what’s going on in the images. Also, if you could add more detailed descriptions on what’s going on in the storyboard, I think it will be better to understand. I think your team has good drawings that clearly showcased how the product will be used. A bit more clarification will be better.
Hi Elisa,
I found your watch face design to be really clean and straightforward. I also like your storyboarding. I think I get where you were going with it, but it is a bit confusing. I think if you rotate your images upright the orientation will allow for a better read. Keep up the good work !