The Brief

The Brief

Zack Taylor and Aveen Nagpal

Slide 1: Seconds matter. Yes, seconds actually do matter because when you are trying to save someone's life with CPR, every second matters. In education, there is always room for improvement. Aveen and I believe that CPR training can be improved, and that is what we focused on in our project.

Slide 2: Here you see a context image of a person conducting CPR. That person could very well be me because I am a certified CPR responder. For this, I understand the tremendous amount of pressure when one is trying to save another humans beings life. And from my CPR training, I know there is room for improvement and the possibility to save more lives.

Slide 3: This is what lead us to create SECONDS MATTER, a device that incorporates new methods of CPR education. The device focuses on both meditative training in the office as well as live feedback while a first responder is conducting CPR.

Slide 7: Here is our iteration with the technology part of our project. I used an accelerometer and Arduino to program. Our idea here is that you can attach the circular interface to a wrist band and put the Arduino in a pocket. LEDs will shine indicating your compression speed.