Umeå Institute of Design
Modular Movement
MoMo is a modular physiotherapy tool that adapts to suit patients' needs, rather than the other way around.
Team: Anja Bedrick, Eskil Sverreson, Leonie Schüttler, Selin Bakış
Product Design
Sound Design
Interaction Design
Arduino Electronics
Design for Healthcare
Orientation
Challenge
Situation
A collaboration between interactions design and product design master's programs with a focus on auditory feedback.
Problem
The need for accessible, quality fine-motor skill training physiotherapy is increasing globally. However, 70% of patients struggle to keep up with their practice at home. How might we design a home-based practice that patients want to engage with?
Action
Building on the experience of our two teammembers who are engaged in long-term physiotherapy, we prototyped quickly using 3D printed shells and Arduino electronics to iterate rapidly.
Result
A modular, gamified fine-motor-skill training tool that challenges, motivates, and adapts to each patient's ability and goals.
01 Mind mapping
Our discover phase involved mapping the current problem based on desk research and user stories.
02 Physical prototyping
Our concept was to take existing fine motor skill physiotherapy treatments, and make them adaptable, gamified, and portable. 3D printing multiple slightly varied options for the physical product to test practical usability.
03 Shell design
Testing the feel of the physical shells, without the addition of light and sound feedback.
04 Electronics + Wizard of Oz
Encoding light feedback to test our gamified feedback hypothesis: can simple, positive feedback change our users' behavior?
05 Sound design
Our concept was to take existing physiotherapy treatments, and make them adaptable, gamified, and portable. 3D printing multiple slightly varied options for the physical product to test practical usability.
04 Modules
The brain, wrist rotation, finger strength, and dexterity are a few modules based on real fine motor skill tuning exercises that we brought to MoMo.
Output
MoMo is a modular physiotherapy tool that adjusts to suit patients' needs, rather than the other way around. Built on real tools and research, this prototype employs gamified light and sound feedback to address low treatment-adherence.
