Day Sixteen

No luck at the hospital today either, they didn't even pick the phone. So we've tried sending some mails and hope they will respond to that.

We've drawn some of our ideas. Since Sandra is our main idea-generator, many of the ideas were hers, and we needed her to explain them further. This is what we got so far:

Our inital idea: register ones exercises with a kinect, and then either show the user on-screen, or make a game where the user advance through levels or achieves achievements while doing excercises.

App to smartphone/tablet: Notify the user when there's a nearby spot where he/she can execute exercises. Furthermore, the user can point his/her camera towards the spot, and see a figure showing what exercise he/she can do.

Visual statue: a statue or the like, being limp to start out with, but when the user performs exercises, the statue will become more rank, ending up standing upright once the user is done.

Rubber band: A rubber band to perform various exercises with, with sensors in it showing the user how he/she performs through an app on smartphone

Knee brace: A knee brace connected to the smartphone, showing the user how it performs and whether the exercise is performed correctly or not.

Future self: a motion sensor and a screen showing the user/a figure 5-10 years ahead, limping along a road. The more exercises the user does, the less the figure in the screen will limp, ending up walking normally

Generally with all the app/kinect ideas we are thinking of making the exercise some sort of game, where the user can advance through or achieve achievements, or compare a score to other users, maybe through some sort of community.