As part of a collaborative studio, I worked in a team with an industrial designer, Eliot Reshetar-Jost, an interaction and visual designer, Hailey Cook, and a nursing student, Sam Newman, to create a product for concussion patients. The final solution is an app and wearable system designed to help patients in the recovery phase. The system uses technological advances such as biometrics and telemedicine but the primary goal is to empower the user throughout their recovery.
AIM RECOVERY
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
CONCUSSION: PREVENTION THROUGH DESIGN
FALL 2014
The AIM app helps the patient to develop and follow their customized recovery plan. The AIM band tracks progress through heartrate, activity, sleep, and blood pressure.
AIM is your personalized recovery companion. Aesthetically soothing with a strong clinical foundation, AIM will help patients feel empowered, in control, and comforted throughout their concussion recovery. To be an effective tool, AIM takes on different functionality during each phase of recovery.
During the Therapy Phase the application and wearable work together to lead Rosemary through her prescribed therapy activities. The mobile app provides instructions and visualizes feedback. The wearable tracks movement, heart rate, and time to alert her when she reaches her threshold.
