Process and/or Research

The process of designing this focused mainly on trying to determine the best placement for the feedback system. It needs to be a polarized system, with the ability to control the strength of the sensory feedback mechanism. I settled on placing the feedback pads around the latissimus dorsi muscle ground and wrapping around the abdomen because those are areas which are not generally touched in day to day life. The hope is that those areas, and the way most clothing is stitched to fit, will make the wearer more aware of when the feedback system is actually functioning.

The second part of this research focused on the sensing portion. I toyed with the idea of using multiple near range sensors, such ultra sonic sensors, but decided they would provide too much noise in there measurements to make this system actually usable. I settled on the idea of using a small camera placed on the back near the collar of the shirt, and would need to use some form of Computer Vision to distinguish things moving in the environment.