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

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, comparing their qualities, and use that information to create a wearable that tracks, and responds immediately to oncoming stress.

؜Why?

؜Panic attacks can be debilitating, and really affect someone's quality of life 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

Calendar/ Milestones for OI

Week 1

11/03 - 11/07

Week 2

11/03 - 11/07

Week 3

11/03 - 11/07

Monday

Thursday

Wednesday

Tuesday

؜Organize Next Steps

Pencils Down

Friday

Calender

Mid Reviews

brainstorming final design

Learn Arduino

g4g

Make Prototypes

g4g

؜Final Slides

Final Slides

g4g

talk about media lab tour, arduino prototyping

؜

decide final design

decide what wearable

revised lo-fi prototype

؜Project Thesis

؜Start 3d modeling final design

Sketches

Prototype # 1 | Sensor Configuration

Prototype # 2 | Compression Draft

؜| Next Steps |

2.) Combine prototypes

3.) Finalize design

1.) Incorporate sensors into prototypes