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April 22, 2025
Stretch Sketch:
We will utilize all movement functionality of the stretch as well as utilize its cameras to provide users personalized feedback.
The main addition will be an external force sensor to manipulate resistance during therapy.
Storyboard:
Here is an example of a user interacting with our Stretch physical therapy bot.
User Feedback
To get a rough understanding of what potential users think of this idea, we reached out to physical therapists in the UW area as well as interviewed friends/family with limited mobility.
As some strengths, we found that having a UI that showed personalized feedback was important, as well as functionality to measure changes in force over time. Additionally, making it possible to change the amount of resistance from the robot is another helpful addition. However, the UI may be oversimplified in the storyboard. A friend also mentioned that there is also a safety concern with interacting so close to a metal robot.
Overall, we thought this is a possibly promising approach to integrating robotics into physical therapy. By emphasizing UI design and human-robot interaction, we believe this can solve a patient need.
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