My goal is to design a wristband which tracks the wearer’s hand activities and alerts them of activities that are potentially harmful to their health. Specifically, I am considering two types of activities. Firstly, I want to detect unconscious self-manipulator gestures such as scratching and alert the user when they occur – this could be user to prevent people from scratching at injuries, rashes, etc. (Basically, I want to build a human version of the flea collar.) As a secondary (or alternative) feature, I want to track repetitive movements such as typing and mouse usage and notify the wearer to take periodic breaks.

I intend to work alone on the project. I feel confident that I can quickly prototype a wristband with a microcontroller and IMU that can track 6DOF hand movements and classify them using simple heuristics. However, I expect I will need to utilize a trained model to perform robust, reliable classification, which may prove challenging due to hardware limitations and the need to collect and annotate high-quality training data. Moreover, reliable detection of self-manipulator gestures is likely to be impossible using just 6DOF tracking data and may require integration of additional sensors into the design.

This project is based off the Wristify from the MIT students, but rather instead of thermoelectric cooling it will perform thermoelectric heating.  The idea is that by sending pulses of heat at certain time intervals to the wrist, the brain is tricked into thinking the body is warming up when in reality, the temperature at your wrist is only changing a few degrees.  This phenomenon is similar to walking into a sauna.  At first, it appears that the environment is very hot, but then you get used to it and its fine.  What Im trying to accomplish with this project is analogous to walking into the sauna repeatedly at certain time intervals to give the perception that you’re heating up.  So this device will essentially act as a personal air conditioning unit.

I intend to work alone for this project

I am confident in my abilities to design and solder the accommodating circuitry for the project and write the code needed to send the pulses when two buttons are pressed(quite simple).  What I am a bit worried about is making it small enough so that it is actually practical and that people would wear it without interfering with motion. No one wants to walk around with a big cumbersome heatsink attached to their wrist.

Below is a block diagram of how the electronics would be connected

1. I want to make a dress that has leds and when a person moves or dances the leds will be on with the random pattern. Also, if I have time than I want to make a flapping butterfly brooch that flaps the wing
2. I want to work individual because I want to put it in to my protfolio
3. I feel okay with making clothes and putting leds to the dress and I think I am less confident about the controlling the sensors and making arduino program.