Testimonial Video from our User!
This video shows one of our early prototypes being used by Veena, our primary user suffering from Parkinson's. Her feedback has been crucial to our process. Here is able to put on the brace by herself as well as load in a spoon, but does so slowly and gave us the necessary feedback to improve upon the prototype she has now. This gave us evidence that the prototype does as intended and can only be improved.
A drop test was also conducted with several utensils of varying diameter and weights and the results are shown as well, further indicating that the device will work under most conditions.
Cassandra Chu- cchu67@gatech.edu
Nidhi Mehra- nmehra3@gatech.edu
Weighted spoon(extreme) 183g, 35mm Fail
Tablespoon 57g, 14mm Pass
Metal pipe 50.8g, 21.4mm Pass
Thin Pen 8.7g, 10mm Pass
Square wooden dowel 5g, 6.4mm diameter Pass