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Project Idea: Detecting Falling Limbs
• Goal: Detect when an arm or leg falls off a support
• Barrier: Inattention to limb means people cannot detect when it is off the support.
• Description: Some sort of device that provides an automatic, (personalized) verbal and optionally haptic feedback when limb is displaced.
• Benefit: Reduce risk of injury, reduce constant manual staff reminders.
Project Idea: Detecting Falling Limbs
• Easy on-off• Minimal intrusion, maintenance, and complexity• Low parts cost
Project Idea: Detecting Shuffling Gait
• Goal: Detect when gait starts to shuffle and intervene to prevent a fall.
• Description: A device (or method) that detects shuffling gait and provides a prompt to stop and reset the gait.
• Benefits: Enable independent walking.