Groep T: MiddlewareLuc Geurts

Project: stAPP (Ministerie voor Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Gezin)

• gamified smartphone app to reduce sedentary behavior

• sensor on upper leg measures sitting vs. non-sitting

• in collaboration with Faber (KU Leuven) en LOGO Vlaams-Brabant

Linear Classifiers

Support Vector Machines

Empowering Occupational Therapists witha DIY-toolkit for Smart Soft Objects

Occupational therapists spend significant effort in finding the right tools and adapting equipment to meet the complex needs of the individual with disabilities

http://www.cchs.org/http://www.eku.edu/

User-Centered Design Process

InterviewsWorkshopsMock-upsParticipatory

Sessions

4 months

We empower occupational therapists to create tailor-made unique assistive solutions

How?

With objects that can be used in physical rehabilitation exercises, movements like...

The DIY-AT toolbox contains:

Materials & Hardware Tutorials website Skweezee software

Procedure

Fabrication Programming Play a game!

Fabrication (all photos taken by occupational therapists)

Study the affordances, decide on the purpose

Prepare and place the wires into the soft object

Fill with wool and close it up

Programming

With the software you can

• Create, edit and store projects

• Record Skweezee Physical actions

• Link Keyboard Commands to these Actions

• Control games through your Skweezee

Play a game!Do an exercise!

(all photos and videos taken by occupational therapists)

More creations from occupational therapists

Balance Control Exercises

Bimanual Skills Posture Control

Control of Hand movements

Fine & Gross Motor Skills

Now, we have everything in a shipping box...

Hardware box

Materials

Tutorials

in preparation: QuiPP (IWT – TETRA)

luc.geurts@kuleuven.be