Project Statement

This project aims to create a wearable form of immediate comfort for people who suffer from panic attacks. Following research about current wearables for panic attacks specifically, and compares their qualities. It uses that information to create a wearable that tracks, and responds immediately to oncoming stress.

؜Why?

؜Panic attacks can be debilitating, and affect someone's quality of life greatly, especially if you suffer with a panic disorder. ؜We want to try and help people reclaim control over their lives.

"I can be writing my name and it’ll happen. My nervous system is just SO dysregulated. It makes me actually unable to form sentences, I am deciding if I should go to the ER, I can’t think, or feel."

"it’s escalated from panic attack for the 15min before I go up on stage, to hours curled up in the hotel bed the morning of a talk, to being physically ill for ten days before even traveling and then leaving the airport because I couldn’t get on the plane."

"I’ve had panic attacks that made me sure something was medically wrong - even after being told I’m healthy."

Precedents

؜Research Precedent

Name: Emotional Intelligence of Machines

Creator: Lokesh Zope

؜Technical Precedent

Name: Galvactivator

Creator: Rosalind Picard

MIT Media Lab

؜Visual Precedent

Name: Embr Wave

Creator: Elizabeth Gazda

Sketches

Market Research

Prototype # 1 | Sensor Configuration

Prototype # 2 | Compression Draft

Prototype # 3-5 | Arduino Testing

؜Prototype # 1-10 | Housing for Electronics

؜Prototype # 1-3 | Glove

؜Prototype Final? | Final- For now

؜| Next Steps |

2.) Adjust Design for Practical Wearability

3.) Add compression

1.) Incorporate cooling mechanism