This document discusses two projects focused on empowering occupational therapists. The first project involves a DIY toolkit that allows occupational therapists to create customized soft objects for physical rehabilitation exercises. The toolkit includes materials, hardware, tutorials, and software to facilitate fabrication, programming, and use of the objects in games or exercises. The second project, QuiPP, will provide a similar empowerment of occupational therapists through assistive technologies.

1. Groep T: Middleware
Luc Geurts

2. Project: stAPP (Ministerie voor Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Gezin)
• gamified smartphone app to reduce
sedentary behavior
• sensor on upper leg measures sitting
vs. non-sitting
• in collaboration with Faber (KU Leuven)
en LOGO Vlaams-Brabant

3. Linear Classifiers

4. Support Vector Machines

9. Empowering Occupational Therapists with
a DIY-toolkit for Smart Soft Objects

10. Occupational therapists spend significant effort in
finding the right tools and adapting equipment to
meet the complex needs of the individual with
disabilities
http://www.eku.edu/ http://www.cchs.org/

11. User-Centered Design Process
Mock-ups Workshops Interviews
Participatory
Sessions
4 months

12. We empower occupational therapists to create
tailor-made unique assistive solutions

13. How?
With objects that can be used in physical rehabilitation
exercises, movements like...

14. The DIY-AT toolbox contains:
Materials & Hardware Tutorials website Skweezee software

15. Procedure
Fabrication Programming Play a game!

16. Fabrication
(all photos taken by occupational therapists)

17. Study the affordances, decide on the purpose

18. Prepare and place the wires into the soft object

19. Fill with wool and close it up

20. Programming

21. With the software you can
• Create, edit and store projects
• Record Skweezee Physical actions
• Link Keyboard Commands to these
Actions
• Control games through your Skweezee

22. Play a game!
Do an exercise!
(all photos and videos taken by occupational therapists)

24. More creations from occupational therapists

25. Balance Control Exercises

26. Bimanual Skills Posture Control

27. Control of Hand movements

28. Fine & Gross Motor Skills

29. Now, we have everything in a shipping box...
Hardware
box
Materials
Tutorials

30. in preparation: QuiPP (IWT – TETRA)
luc.geurts@kuleuven.be